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10.5: Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia.A sequel to 2004's 10.5, the show follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and sinkholes, all triggered by an apocalyptic earthquake.
The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it. The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean plate and the Gonâve microplate.The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean plate with the North ...
A magnitude 7.6-7.7 earthquake struck near the coast of western Mexico on 19 September 2022. A tsunami about 1.75 m (5.7 ft) high was reported near the epicentre. [212] The tsunami was detected as far away as Ecuador, where tsunami waves as high as 12 cm (4.7 in) were observed. [213] 2023 Greenland 2023 Greenland landslide: Landslide
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California at 10:44 a.m. PST, with shaking felt across the region. The epicenter was 39 miles west of Petrolia, California, and was very ...
When the tsunami's wave peak reaches the shore, the resulting temporary rise in sea level is termed run up. Run up is measured in metres above a reference sea level. [59] A large tsunami may feature multiple waves arriving over a period of hours, with significant time between the wave crests.
At 02:10 PM local time on 28 January 2020, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 M w struck the north side of the Cayman Trough, north of Jamaica and west of the southern tip of Cuba, with the epicenter being 80 miles (130 km) east-southeast of Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, [4] and 83 miles (134 km) north of Montego Bay, Jamaica. [5]
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, Calif., the National Weather Service said in ...
The Lituya Bay megatsunami caused damage at higher elevations than any other tsunami, being powerful enough to push water up the tree covered slopes of the fjord with enough force to clear trees to a reported height of 524 m (1,719 ft). [9] A 1:675 recreation of the tsunami found the wave crest was 150 m (490 ft) tall. [14]