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1858 Hietsu earthquake (M~7) Awatere Fault: 200: South Island, New Zealand: Dextral strike-slip: Active: 1848 Marlborough (M7.5) Azores–Gibraltar transform fault: 2250: Azores to Strait of Gibraltar: Dextral strike-slip: Active: 1755 Lisbon earthquake (est. M7.7–9.0), 1969 Cape St. Vincent (M7.9), 1941 Gloria Fault (M8.0) Baikal Rift Zone ...
The ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900-2013) (prepared at the request of the GEM Foundation) catalogs magnitude 5.5 or greater earthquakes suitable for modeling and assessing seismic hazard and risk. Epicentral locations and hypocentral depths were recalculated from original travel time data using a consistent velocity model.
Up to 66,900 people died from earthquakes in 2023, the highest death toll for earthquakes since 2010. At least 59,488 people died in the Turkey–Syria doublets of February, which dominated world headlines because of its extensive devastation; the first mainshock was also the largest earthquake of the year at M w 7.8.
1693 Sicily earthquake; 1738 Vrancea earthquake; 1743 Salento earthquake; 1756 Düren earthquake; 1763 Komárom earthquake; 1856 Heraklion earthquake; 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami; 1956 Budapest earthquake; 1963 Skopje earthquake; 1983 Kopaonik earthquake; 1992 Roermond earthquake; 1998 Mionica earthquake; 2002 Kosovo earthquake ...
There are different maps for it based on recent tectonics, seismicity and earthquake focal mechanism. The simplest plate geometry draws the boundary from the Nansen Ridge through a broad zone of deformation in North Asia to the Sea of Okhotsk then south through Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido to the triple junction in the Japan Trench. [8]
The 1356 Basel earthquake is the most significant seismological event to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history [1] and had a moment magnitude in the range of 6.0–7.1. [2] This earthquake, which occurred on 18 October 1356, is also known as the Sankt-Lukas-Tag Erdbeben [ 3 ] (English: Saint Luke's Day Earthquake), as 18 October ...
An earthquake struck west of Paphos, Cyprus on 11 January 2022, with a moment magnitude of 6.6. [3] The earthquake was the largest tremor to occur in the Mediterranean Sea since the 2003 Boumerdès earthquake , [ 4 ] and the largest to occur in Cyprus since 1996 .
The Vrancea seismogenic zone is the most important among these seismic zones, having in mind the energy, the extent of the macroseismic effects, and the persistent and confined character of the earthquakes that occur in this area. The Vrancea area is responsible for over 90% of all earthquakes in Romania, releasing over 95% of the seismic ...