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A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Chile, near Valparaíso, on April 17, at a depth of 37 km. [51] One person died of a heart attack and another due to the loss of power at a local hospital. [citation needed] A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea, about 137 km north of Lae, on April 17 at a depth of 208.2 km. [52]
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] California earthquakes (1769–2000)
1979 Imperial Valley earthquake – magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicenter less than 1 km inside Mexico – significant damage and injuries on both sides of the border (60 in the US) 2010 Baja California earthquake (Mexico near S California) – magnitude 7.2 earthquake, 4 fatalities and 100 injuries, none in the United States
The earthquake was first registered as having a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, but USGS updated it to 7.0. It appears to have an epicenter at the triple junction of the Pacific, North American and ...
There's now an entire generation of Californians who have grown up without experiencing the damaging earthquakes we saw in the 1980s and 1990s. California remains in puzzling earthquake 'drought ...
The US Geological Survey has updated their California earthquake outlook and says that the chance of a major earthquake hitting in the next 30 years is greater than previously thought. Recent ...
see 2012 Zohan earthquake: 33.490 59.554 8 dead 1 missing 5.6 M w (USGS) Centred 73 km NNE of Birjand, Iran, at a depth of 5.6 km. [66] December 7, 2012 08:18 Off the east coast of Honshu, Japan see 2012 Kamaishi earthquake: 37.889 144.090 3 7.3 M w (USGS) Centred 245 km SE of Kamaishi, Japan, at a depth of 36.1 km. [67] December 10, 2012 16:53 ...
A full fault rupture, estimated to be around a 7.5 magnitude, could kill between 3,000 and 18,000 people, according to US Geological Survey and Southern California Earthquake Center.