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Earthquakes in 2008 resulted in about 88,011 fatalities. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake was the deadliest with 87,587 fatalities, and also the largest at 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale . Other significant earthquakes struck Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Russia, Japan, Colombia, and other parts of China.
Florida: 5.9 M wc 0: 2006 Gulf of Mexico earthquake: October 15, 2006: Hawaii: 6.7 M d 0: 2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake: October 30, 2007: California: 5.5 M w 0: 2007 Alum Rock earthquake: February 21, 2008: Nevada: 5.9 M w 0: 2008 Wells earthquake: April 18, 2008: Illinois: 5.2 M w 0: 2008 Illinois earthquake: July 29, 2008: California: 5.4 M w 0 ...
Three earthquakes struck California between July 4 and July 5. The main earthquake was a 7.1 magnitude, as two others were 5.4 and 6.4 magnitudes. At least one was killed and several others were injured. The main earthquake was the strongest earthquake to hit the region in 20 years. [28] 2019 Hurricane: 84 killed, 245 missing $5.1 billion ...
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In 2019, for instance, Florida recorded at least nine small earthquakes, mostly in the 2.0 magnitude range. In 2020, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Escambia County.
November 10 – Hurricane Nicole made landfall at 08:00 UTC on November 10 just south of Vero Beach on North Hutchinson Island as a low-end Category 1 storm with winds of 75 mph (121 km/h), becoming the first tropical cyclone to make landfall along the east coast of Florida at hurricane strength since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...
Fay was the first storm on record to hit the same U.S. state on four separate occasions, beating a record set by Hurricane Gordon of 1994, and was just the third storm on record to hit the U.S. at least 3 times, the third was Hurricane Juan in 1985, although Juan did not hit the same state three times; one of its landfalls was in Alabama, and ...