- An
earthquake – also
called a quake, tremor, or temblor – is the
shaking of the Earth's
surface resulting from a
sudden release of
energy in the lithosphere...
-
Earthquakes are
caused by
movements within the Earth's
crust and
uppermost mantle. They
range from weak
events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden...
- On 6
February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a Mw 7.8
earthquake struck southern and
central Turkey and
northern and
western Syria. The
epicenter was...
- On 26
December 2004, at 07:58:53
local time (UTC+7), a
major earthquake with a
magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw
struck with an
epicentre off the west
coast of Aceh...
- On 7
January 2025 at 09:05 CST (UTC+8), an
earthquake measuring Mw 7.1
struck Tingri County,
located in the
Shigatse prefecture-level city of the Tibet...
- 2011, at 14:46:24 JST (05:46:24 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1
undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the
Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the
Oshika Peninsula...
- The 1960
Valdivia earthquake and
tsunami (Spanish:
Terremoto de Valdivia) or the
Great Chilean earthquake (Gran
terremoto de Chile)
occurred on 22 May...
- The
Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on
January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the
southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, ****an,
including the
region known...
-
April 18, 1906, the
coast of
Northern California was
struck by a
major earthquake with an
estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a
maximum Mercalli intensity...
- The 2010
Haiti earthquake was a
catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw
earthquake that
struck Haiti at 16:53
local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12
January 2010...
