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On January 8, 2022, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Menyuan County, Qinghai Province near the border with Gansu Province, China. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It was the largest earthquake in China since the 2021 Maduo earthquake .
2022 Sumatra earthquake: 6 21 7.6 Papua New Guinea, Morobe: VIII (Severe) 116.0 10 September: 2022 Papua New Guinea earthquake: 7 18 5.1 Afghanistan, Kunar: VII (Very strong) 10.0 4 September: September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake: 8 11 7.0 Philippines, Cordillera: VIII (Severe) 33.7 27 July: 2022 Luzon earthquake: 9 10 2.7 Poland, Silesian ...
By this time, scientists were well aware of the threat, but seismology was still in its infancy. Following destructive earthquakes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, real estate developers, press, and boosters minimized and downplayed the risk of earthquakes out of fear that the ongoing economic boom would be negatively affected. [3] [4]
There have been just under 40 earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or larger in the past century within 150 miles of Thursday’s earthquake, which was the most powerful to rattle the state since a 7.1 ...
The second 7.3 magnitude quake occurred hours later in the southern part of Qinghai province, about 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) to the south, according to Chinese measurements. 2 separate China ...
The most recent significant earthquake (above a 6.0 on the Richter scale) in the state was the 6.4 magnitude quake that occurred in Ferndale, Humboldt County, in December 2022, in which two people ...
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2022 Qinghai earthquake; J. 2023 Jishishan earthquake; T. 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake This page was last edited on 6 July 2023, at 09:51 (UTC). Text is available ...