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The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. 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.
The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]
Mindanao, Philippines see 2019 Cotabato earthquakes: 6.712 125.005 7 6.4 M w (USGS) Centred 7 km ENE of Columbio, Philippines, at a depth of 14.1 km. [339] October 29, 2019 01:04 6.802 125.040 24 dead 3 missing 6.6 M w (USGS) Centred 14 km east of Bual, Philippines, at a depth of 15.3 km. [340] October 31, 2019 01:11 6.908 125.153 6.5
The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake occurred just after 8:04 p.m. PDT on October 27. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of V ( Moderate ). The earthquake's epicentre was on Moresby Island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).
Event Location Magnitude Adjusted for inflation (year) Historic cost (year) 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: Japan: 9.1 [1]: $487.6 billion (2024) $360 billion (2013) [2] 2008 Sichuan earthquake
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck offshore of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 240 km (150 mi) east southeast of South Georgia on August 21 at a depth of 12.0 km (7.5 mi). The shock had a maximum intensity of I (Not felt). [150] This was an aftershock of the 7.4 quake.
10 9: 1 gigameter 1.39 Gm Diameter of the Sun: 5.15 Gm Greatest mileage ever recorded by a car (3.2 million miles by a 1966 Volvo P-1800S) [38] 10 10: 10 Gm: 18 Gm Approximately one light-minute: 10 11: 100 Gm: 150 Gm 1 astronomical unit (au); mean distance between Earth and Sun 10 12: 1 terameter (Tm) 1.3 Tm Optical diameter of Betelgeuse: 1.4 Tm
The following is an incomplete list of mountains in the Philippines. Several of these are volcanoes , formed by subducting tectonic plates surrounding the archipelago . [ 1 ]