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The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.
Previous studies suggested a recurrence interval of 10,000 years for magnitude 7.5 earthquakes, but the researchers said the figure was 1,300 to 1,400 years. [17] Yosef Shapira, the then State Comptroller of Israel, said that a major earthquake in Israel could kill up to 7,000 people if safety recommendations are not enforced. Reports of the ...
Holidaymaker Nadia Cryer shares what she experienced during the devastating quake that struck Morocco.Over 2,000 people have been killed and at least 2,059 people injured after the near-7 ...
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck New Britain, Papua New Guinea on October 17 at a depth of 32 km. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Vanuatu on October 18 at a depth of 115 km. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Ica Region, Peru on October 20 at a depth of 23 km. Minor damage to some houses at Pisco.
After a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Friday in Hunterdon County, insurance brokers reported a spike in inquiries about whether homes are covered for earthquake damage.
The official central news agency said the quake was the biggest since one of magnitude 7.6 in 1999 that killed about 2,400 people and damaged or destroyed 50,000 buildings.
Recordings of earthquakes in West Java began in 1844; earthquakes in 1910, 1912, 1968, 1982 and 2000 damaged many homes. Several people were killed by the earthquake in 1982. In 2000, a magnitude 5.1 shock left about 1,900 homes badly damaged. [7] Although shallow inland earthquakes in Java are infrequent, they result in large casualties.
And a 5.6 magnitude earthquake on January 17, 2022 struck Badghis, another western province near Herat bordering Turkmenistan, killed more than 20 people and reduced hundreds of brick homes to rubble.