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Like other earthquakes recorded in western Japan between 1891 and 1948, the 1995 earthquake had a strike-slip mechanism that accommodated east–west shortening of the Eurasian plate due to its collision with the Philippine Sea plate in central Honshu. [13] The Mj 7.3 earthquake struck at 05:46:53 JST on the morning of January 17, 1995. It ...
The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]
10.0 Earthquake is a 2014 American disaster film directed by David Gidali and starring Henry Ian Cusick and Jeffrey Jones. [2] Plot
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.
Event Location Magnitude Adjusted for inflation (year) Historic cost (year) 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: Japan: 9.1 [1]: $320.4 billion (2023) $235 billion (2011) [2] 2008 Sichuan earthquake
The magnitude of the earthquake was placed at M s 6.6 by the China Earthquake Data Center with a focal depth of 5.0 kilometres (12 mi). [1] It was measured at M w 6.0 by the United States Geological Survey with a focal depth of 10.9 kilometres (6.7 mi) [ 2 ] and M w 6.1 by the European Alert System .
see April 2011 Fukushima earthquake: 37.007 140.477 4 7.1 M w (USGS) Centred 36 km west of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan, at a depth of 13.1 km. [14] May 11, 2011 16:47 Spain see 2011 Lorca earthquake: 37.699 -1.673 9 5.1 M w (USGS) Centred 50 km SW of Murcia, Spain, at a depth of 1 km. [15] May 19, 2011 20:15 Western Turkey see 2011 Kütahya earthquake ...
The most notable of these earthquakes is the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.4 M w (preferred; other estimates range as high as 7.9 [114]). The Owens Valley quake is believed to be the greatest earthquake on record and not just for California, but also for the western continental United States. [115]