The phrase
"magnitude earthquake" refers to how strong or powerful an earthquake is. It helps scientists determine the intensity of the shaking and the amount of energy released during the earthquake. The magnitude is measured using a scale called the Richter scale, which ranges from 0 to 10 or more. The higher the magnitude, the stronger and more severe the earthquake.
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He's the kind of person you want to have around when a pickle jar can't be opened or when the largest
magnitude earthquake in history breaks off.
Less than 24 - hours after a 7.1 -
magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, 6.1 - magnitude tremors rocked the coast of Japan Wednesday.
East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar
magnitude earthquake on the west coast.
The Great Chilean Earthquake or Valdivia Earthquake (Terremoto de Valdivia in Spanish) of May 22, 1960 is the
largest magnitude earthquake recorded since seismographic monitoring began.
A tsunami warning was issued for the entire Indian Ocean and individual countries — including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India — after a massive 8.7
magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
Portions of the pipeline will also cross an active seismic zone that had a 4.3
magnitude earthquake as recently as 2002.
That is why the death toll in the 7.8 -
magnitude earthquake near Katmandu today is almost certainly going to be far higher than initial reports of hundreds.
An apocalyptically - worded story in the latest issue of the New Yorker detailed the devastation that might result from a high -
magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that runs from Cape Mendocino, Calif., to Vancouver Island, Canada.
Michael Brudzinski of Miami University and his colleagues will discuss their work to identify swarms of
small magnitude earthquakes in Ohio that appear to be correlated in time and space with hydraulic fracturing or wastewater disposal.
In 2010, a 7.0
magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying vital infrastructure, and changing the lives of everyone who lived on the island.
A 5.2 -
magnitude earthquake jolted the waters off Taiwan's Hualien County at 7:47 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center Source: Xinhua 2018/5/2 9:17:19
Exactly eight years ago on a Friday, Skal Labissiere was a 13 - year - old kid washing his hands before dinner when a 7.0
magnitude earthquake leveled his family's apartment building in Port - au - Prince, Haiti.
Kääb also used Planet images to study surface displacements along fault lines in New Zealand following the country's 7.8 -
magnitude earthquake last November.
(Reuters)- Residents of southern California were rattled by a 4.1
magnitude earthquake Saturday afternoon, the largest of more than 100 aftershocks following Friday's 5.1 rumbler that caused light scattered damage around the Los Angeles area.
Updated, 1:42 p.m. You've likely seen some of the wrenching closeup imagery emerging after a shallow 6.2 -
magnitude earthquake shattered ancient villages in the Appenine mountains 80 miles northeast of Rome on August 24, killing 241 people at last count.
As soon as I heard about the 5.6 -
magnitude earthquake amid a cluster of recent lesser tremors in Oklahoma, I figured the potential relationship of some earthquakes to drilling would emerge.
The U.S. State Department is urging tourists to avoid travel to Japan after a massive 8.9 -
magnitude earthquake slammed the country on Friday.
• In early November, Oklahoma experienced a series of
low magnitude earthquakes, with a quake on November 5 registering a 5.6 magnitude, the strongest ever recorded in the state.
All from New Zealand's original Live coverage; Two people are dead after a
massive magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand, sparking a tsunami warning, cutting off towns and leaving
CT previously reported how dozens of Nepali Christians died when April's 7.8
magnitude earthquake occurred on a Saturday, the day weekly church services are observed.
Nepal faces a host of pressing challenges in the aftermath of the disastrous 7.8 -
magnitude earthquake on April 25 and its many powerful aftershocks.
A 6.0
magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early on Sunday, injuring dozens of people, two of them seriously, damaging historic buildings, setting some homes on fire and causing power outages around the picturesque town of Napa.
It's been six years since a 7.0 -
magnitude earthquake struck Haiti — killing more than 160,000 people and crippling an already vulnerable economy.
A 9.0 -
magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Aleutian Islands triggered the mighty wave, which left behind up to nine shipping containers worth of ocean sediment in a sinkhole on the island of Kauai.
«Subsequent
large magnitude earthquakes have struck this margin since 2004, including unusually large earthquakes in the Indian plate offshore North Sumatra in 2012.
Chino Hills was the victim of a 5.7
magnitude earthquake as recently as 2008, so it's important to make sure your policy protects you against earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a
high magnitude earthquake can cause.
The Mexican Red Cross has multiple teams assisting in search and rescue operations following this week's deadly 7.1
magnitude earthquake in Mexico.