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2006 Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.3 earthquake, no injuries or fatalities anywhere; 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.0 earthquake with an epicenter 120 miles (190 km) southwest of American Samoa generated tsunami waves up to 16 feet (5 m), killing 34 people in American Samoa and causing extensive damage [39]
It is capable of producing magnitude-9.0 earthquakes and tsunami waves about 100 feet tall. In 2022, two people died after a ma gnitude - 6.4 earthquake struck offshore near Ferndale , not far ...
An earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States on Friday morning, according to the U.S. ... Simons said this was one of the largest earthquakes in New Jersey in recent history. The last ...
The earthquake occurred at 10:44 a.m. with an epicenter under the Pacific Ocean, about 70 miles southwest of Eureka and 110 miles northwest of Mendocino. ... “This was the biggest earthquake at ...
On April 5, 2024, at 10:23 EDT (14:23 UTC), a M w 4.8 earthquake occurred in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with the epicenter in Tewksbury Township.While it was felt across the New York metropolitan area, Delaware Valley, the Washington D.C metropolitan area, and other parts of the northeastern United States between Virginia and Maine, it had a relatively minor impact, with no major damage ...
This is a list of earthquakes in 2025. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in significant damage and/or casualties. All dates are listed according to UTC time. The maximum intensities are based on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. Earthquake magnitudes are based on data from the USGS.
"It was a big earthquake," said Kaitlin Graves, an employee at Petrolia General Store about 50 miles south of Eureka. "It was a lot of up-and-down shaking." (Paul Duginski / Los Angeles Times)
Measuring M w 5.1, it was the state's largest earthquake since a M fa 5.2 earthquake struck Skyland in 1916, and the strongest to strike the East Coast since the 2011 Virginia earthquake. [3] [12] [2] In Sparta, the earthquake was assigned a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of VI–VII and its peak ground acceleration exceeded 0.2 g. [13]