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see June 2011 Christchurch earthquake-43.580 172.740 1 6.0 M w (USGS) Centred 13 km NNE of Christchurch, New Zealand, at a depth of 9 km. [17] June 24, 2011 03:09 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States 52.008 -171.859 0 7.2 M w (USGS) Centred 64 km SW of Amukta Island, Alaska, United States, at a depth of 62.6 km. [18] June 29, 2011
1948 Desert Hot Springs earthquake: April 13, 1949: Washington: 6.7 M w 8: 1949 Olympia earthquake: July 21, 1952: California: 7.3 M w 14: 1952 Kern County earthquake: July 6, 1954: Nevada 6.6 M w 0 1954 Rainbow Mountain earthquake [2] August 24, 1954: Nevada 6.8 M w 0 1954 Stillwater earthquake [2] December 16, 1954: Nevada 7.1 M w 0 1954 ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Costa Rica on June 1. [110] A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu on June 9. [111] A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Nicobar Islands, India on June 12. [112] A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the coast Papua, Indonesia on June 16. [113]
WA state has the second-highest risk of large earthquakes in the U.S., according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
Earthquakes (6.0+ M w) between 1900 and 2017 Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history.
It came on the heels of two other earthquakes on June 7 in the same area near the city of Buford — a 2.5 magnitude quake and another of 2.1 magnitude, which shook the area a few hours earlier ...
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. From January 2006, earthquake locations are from the United States Geological Survey's Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE) [3] monthly listing.