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The massive Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami was triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra island. The giant wall of water killed about 230,000 people in a dozen countries as far away as East Africa.
A magnitude-9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia fault and the resulting tsunami would kill an estimated 14,000 people in Oregon and Washington, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
The magnitude-9.1 earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, 150 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, packed the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs, according to National Geographic.
The largest megathrust event within the last 20 years was the magnitude 9.0–9.1 Tōhoku earthquake along the Japan Trench megathrust. [20] In North America, the Juan de Fuca plate subducts under the North American plate, creating the Cascadia subduction zone from mid Vancouver Island, British Columbia down to Northern California.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Kraljevo, Serbia on November 3, killing 2 and injuring over 100. [187] A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near the south coast of Papua, Indonesia on November 3. [188] A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Tonga on November 3. [189] A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck western Iran, injuring 100 people. [190]
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...
In 2011, more than 18,000 people lost their lives amid a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku, Japan, The New Yorker noted. That catastrophe wound up costing approximately $220 billion.