- 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...
- 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...
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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...
- The 1960
Valdivia earthquake and
tsunami (Spanish:
Terremoto de Valdivia) or the
Great Chilean earthquake (Gran
terremoto de Chile)
occurred on 22 May...
- This is a list of
earthquakes in 2025. Only
earthquakes of
magnitude 6 or
above are included,
unless they
result in
significant damage and/or casualties...
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Megathrust earthquakes occur at
convergent plate boundaries,
where one
tectonic plate is
forced underneath another. The
earthquakes are
caused by slip...
- 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...
- Look up
earthquake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
earthquake is the
result of a
sudden release of
energy in the Earth's
crust (the
outer layer)...
- is a
summary of
significant earthquakes during the 21st century. In
terms of fatalities, the 2004
Indian Ocean earthquake was the most
destructive event...
