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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. List of countries by natural disaster risk - Wikipedia

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    "Natural Disasters News".Ubyrisk. Archived from the original on 2018-11-01 Worldwide news site focused on natural disasters, mitigation and climate changes news "Global Risk Identification Program (GRIP)".

  4. Earthquake - Wikipedia

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    A particularly dangerous form of slow earthquake is the tsunami earthquake, observed where the relatively low felt intensities, caused by the slow propagation speed of some great earthquakes, fail to alert the population of the neighboring coast, as in the 1896 Sanriku earthquake.

  5. Earthquakes happen all the time, you just can't feel them. A ...

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    So a 5.0 earthquake is ten times stronger than a 4.0. The magnitude and effect of an earthquake, according to Michigan Technological University : Below 2.5: Generally not felt

  6. Seismic hazard - Wikipedia

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    Surface motion map for a hypothetical earthquake on the northern portion of the Hayward Fault Zone and its presumed northern extension, the Rodgers Creek Fault Zone. A seismic hazard is the probability that an earthquake will occur in a given geographic area, within a given window of time, and with ground motion intensity exceeding a given threshold.

  7. Iceland earthquakes – live: Volcano eruption could happen ...

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    An Icelandic volcano could erupt in ‘hours or days’, experts have warned, as 3,000 residents have been evacuated from the southwestern town of Grindavik.. After 1,485 earthquakes have rocked ...

  8. European Macroseismic Scale - Wikipedia

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    The history of the EMS began in 1988 when the European Seismological Commission (ESC) decided to review and update the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale (MSK-64), which was used in its basic form in Europe for almost a quarter of a century. After more than five years of intensive research and development and a four-year testing period, the ...

  9. Why do earthquakes happen? - AOL

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    Movement of tectonic plates against each other sends seismic waves rippling across earth’s surface