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1948 Desert Hot Springs earthquake: April 13, 1949: Washington: 6.7 M w 8: 1949 Olympia earthquake: July 21, 1952: California: 7.3 M w 14: 1952 Kern County earthquake: July 6, 1954: Nevada 6.6 M w 0 1954 Rainbow Mountain earthquake [2] August 24, 1954: Nevada 6.8 M w 0 1954 Stillwater earthquake [2] December 16, 1954: Nevada 7.1 M w 0 1954 ...
The 2021 Haiti earthquake was the largest to strike the country since the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake. More than 138,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, most of them in Les Cayes and Nippes. 2,248 people were killed, 12,763 others were injured and 329 people remained missing. It is the deadliest earthquake of 2021. [338] 2,248 12,763 16 [339]
Earthquakes in 2010 resulted in nearly 165,000 fatalities. Most of these were due to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which caused an estimated 160,000 deaths, [2] making it the 8th deadliest earthquake in recorded history. Other deadly quakes occurred in China, Indonesia or Turkey.
WA state has the second-highest risk of large earthquakes in the U.S., according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
Highway cameras captured the rattling when a 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit in Ohio on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. Southern Ohio was in for a slight − and temporary − shake on Monday afternoon, when ...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [1] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [2] which is complete to December 2005. From January 2006, earthquake locations are from the United States Geological Survey's Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE) [3] monthly listing.