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June 12, 2017 12:28 Near the coast of western Turkey see 2017 Lesbos earthquake: 38.932 26.364 1 6.3 M w (USGS) Centred 4 km south of Plomarion, Greece, at a depth of 10.4 km. [236] June 14, 2017 07:29 Guatemala see 2017 Guatemala earthquake: 14.982 -91.988 5 6.9 M w (USGS) Centred 5 km NNE of San Pablo, Guatemala, at a depth of 94.0 km. [237 ...
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 (6.0+ M w) between 1900 and 2017 Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history.
It came on the heels of two other earthquakes on June 7 in the same area near the city of Buford — a 2.5 magnitude quake and another of 2.1 magnitude, which shook the area a few hours earlier ...
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.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Costa Rica on June 1. [110] A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu on June 9. [111] A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Nicobar Islands, India on June 12. [112] A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the coast Papua, Indonesia on June 16. [113]