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2024 Port Vila earthquake: 5 7.2 0 Peru, Arequipa offshore VI (Strong) 24.0 June 28 - 6 7.1 0 Japan, Miyazaki offshore VIII (Severe) 24.0 August 8: 2024 Hyūga-nada earthquake: 6 7.1 0 Philippines, Soccsksargen offshore III (Weak) 639.5 July 11 - 8 7.0 3 China, Xinjiang: IX (Violent) 13.0 January 22: 2024 Uqturpan earthquake: 8 7.0 0
The USGS estimated that the earthquake could cause economic losses measuring between 1–10% of Vanuatu's GDP. [19] The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that 116,000 people had been directly affected by the earthquake, [43] equivalent to a third of Vanuatu's population. [44] Among them were 14,000 ...
Logo of the ANSS. The Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) is a collaboration of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and regional, state, and academic partners that collects and analyzes data on significant earthquakes to provide near real-time (generally within 10 to 30 minutes [1]) information to emergency responders and officials, the news media, and the public. [2]
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines, triggering a tsunami warning. The quake struck off the island of Mindanao late at night, with residents living on the eastern coast urged to ...
The magnitude 6.7 quake was located 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Burias at the southern tip of the Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered at a depth of 78 kilometers (48 ...
This includes both faulting along the plate interfaces and within the subducting slabs. For the Philippine Trench, examples of those on the plate interface are the 1988 M w 7.3 and the 2023 M7.6 events. The 1975 M w 7.6 earthquake was caused by intra-slab normal faulting, while the 2012 M7.6 was a result of thrust faulting within the descending ...
A small earthquake shook homes along the southern stretch of the Tri-Cities on Friday night. At around 9:20 p.m. a 2.8 magnitude earthquake was registered two miles from Richland by the Pacific ...
Following the earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a 'Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information' advisory [23] that the probability of a megathrust earthquake along the Nankai Trough increased from a 0.1% per week to 1% chance [24] in what was the first advisory of its kind but clarified that it was not imminent.