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  2. What causes earthquakes? The science behind why seismic ... - AOL

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    Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.

  3. Earthquake environmental effects - Wikipedia

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    Primary effects: which are the surface expression of the seismogenic source (e.g., surface faulting), normally observed for crustal earthquakes above a given magnitude threshold (typically M w =5.5–6.0); Coseismic liquefaction induced by one of the 2012 Emilia, Northern Italy, earthquakes

  4. Earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Earthquakes are not only categorized by their magnitude but also by the place where they occur. The world is divided into 754 Flinn–Engdahl regions (F-E regions), which are based on political and geographical boundaries as well as seismic activity. More active zones are divided into smaller F-E regions whereas less active zones belong to ...

  5. Dangerous Earth - Wikipedia

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    Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew About Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More is a non-fiction book by Ellen J. Prager, a marine biologist. Overview [ edit ]

  6. Why is Taiwan so exposed to earthquakes and so well ... - AOL

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    Taiwan and its surrounding waters have registered about 2,000 earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.0 or greater since 1980, and more than 100 earthquakes with a magnitude above 5.5, according to the ...

  7. Why some huge earthquakes cause great destruction while ...

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    The magnitude of an earthquake isn't enough to determine how much death and destruction it will cause. Location, time of day, building codes and other factors make a big difference.

  8. Earthquake swarm - Wikipedia

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    More than 16,000 earthquakes were detected within 2 years. White circles show the magnitude of ~1,400 earthquakes which could be located (right-handside magnitude scale). Sismalp (the local monitoring network) was not able to locate all events below magnitude 1, which explains why very-small-magnitude events are seemingly lacking.

  9. Why do earthquakes happen? - AOL

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