Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. ... Alaska offshore, 169 km ... New Zealand, Kermadec Islands offshore 6.2 16.0
On March 4, 2021, nearly 5 months before the Alaska mainshock, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands, [51] a sparsely populated territory owned by New Zealand, and another equally sized event struck the Sub-Antarctic British territory of the South Sandwich Islands on August 12 of that year. [52]
The main magnitude 8.1 earthquake was preceded by a magnitude 7.4 foreshock [7] and followed by a magnitude 6.1 aftershock. [8] A separate, unrelated magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand, approximately 900 km to the south, several hours before the main quakes. [9]
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the first magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred just before 11 a.m. local time on Sunday in the Pacific Ocean about 70 miles southwest of Adak, Alaska ...
The United States Geological Survey wrote in a social media post that the earthquake occurred 106 kilometers (65.8 miles) south of Sand Point, Alaska, at 10:48 p.m. Saturd
A tsunami warning was issued for southern Alaska on Monday after a major earthquake and large aftershock hit near the Alaskan Peninsula. The warning was later downgraded to an advisory by the ...
The 2021 Kermadec Islands earthquake damaged some buildings and caused landslides on Raoul Island, [122] it also triggered a tsunami warning for New Zealand. [123] Tsunami heights have been around 35–40 cm (14–16 in) at East Cape and around 15–20 cm (5.9–7.9 in) at Great Barrier Island ; 64 cm (25 in) waves were reported in Norfolk ...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand, just one day after a devastating cyclone forced a state of emergency across much of the country.. The quake occurred under the Cook Strait ...