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  2. 2024 Hualien earthquake - Wikipedia

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    On 3 April 2024, at 07:58:11 NST (23:58:11 UTC on 2 April), a M w 7.4 earthquake struck 15 km (9.3 mi) [5] south of Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. At least 19 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured in the earthquake. It is the strongest earthquake in Taiwan since the 1999 Jiji earthquake, [6] with three aftershocks above M w 6.0.

  3. List of deadly earthquakes since 1900 - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of earthquakes 2011–2020 - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. List of earthquakes in 2016 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. 2020 Petrinja earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The last earthquake on the territory of Croatia that had a magnitude of 6.0 M L was in Ston in 1996. In 1969, the fault system which extends from Jastrebarsko over this area towards Banja Luka had a 6.6 M L earthquake which hit the latter city , and that one was also preceded by significant foreshocks one day earlier.

  8. 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes - Wikipedia

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    The earthquake hypocenter was at a depth of 10.0 km (6 mi) according to USGS and 5 km (3 mi) according to KOERI. [2] [34] The shock had a focal mechanism corresponding to strike-slip faulting. [2] [33] It is one of the strongest ever recorded in Turkey, equivalent in magnitude to the 1939 Erzincan earthquake (M w 7.8).

  9. 2024 Noto earthquake - Wikipedia

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    On 3 June 2024, a magnitude M JMA 6.0 (M w 5.8) aftershock struck the Noto Peninsula, destroying five houses in Wajima and injuring three people, [233] including a woman who broke her leg after being startled by an earthquake alert in Tsubata and another person in Namerikawa, Toyama who sustained injuries to his head and hips while evacuating.