Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake killed»

NBC's Lucy Kafanov reports a major 6.2 - magnitude earthquake killed dozens of people in central Italy

Not exact matches

QUITO (Reuters)- Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast on Wednesday, causing minor injuries and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8 tremor killed more than 650 people last month.

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region on Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area.

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.

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 7.3 - magnitude earthquake has shaken the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing at least 335 people and injuring thousands more...

The epicentre of the magnitude 7.3 quake was to the east of the more powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25 April that killed more than 8000 people.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake also hit the north - west coast of Ecuador at 7 pm local time on the Saturday (pictured), killing at least 272 people and injuring another 2500.

There would be other surprises on little - known faults: the 1992 magnitude - 7.3 Landers quake off the southern San Andreas (1 killed, $ 92 million in damage); the 1994 magnitude - 6.7 Northridge earthquake on a previously unknown, buried fault (60 killed, $ 20 billion in damage); and the 1999 Hector Mine quake, magnitude 7.1, in the remoteness of the Mojave Desert.

At magnitude 7.4 it was the strongest quake in the city since the devastating 1985 earthquake that killed 9,500 people.

According to Beth Buczynski of the CrispGreen Web site, researchers have calculated that the January 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed upwards of 220,000 people in Haiti released as much energy as 31 atomic bombs like the one the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

The researchers estimated that the quake's magnitude had been between 7.5 and 8.5, comparable to the Nepal earthquake in 2015 that killed nearly 9000 people.

The newly christened Oldham fault was likely responsible for the devastating 8.1 - magnitude Assam earthquake that killed thousands on 12 June 1897, the researchers conclude.

SHAKE DAMAGE The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 killed 63 people and caused thousands of injuries in Northern California.

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

The Izmit earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 which lasted for 45 seconds killed over 17,000 in northwestern Turkey on 17 August 1999.

That magnitude 7.6 earthquake killed more than 85,000 people, mostly in north Pakistan, and caused massive infrastructure damage.

More recently, an earthquake of magnitude of about 7.0 hit the Messina region in Italy in 1908, causing a tsunami that killed thousands, with observed waves locally exceeding 10 metres in height.

The massive shockwaves and accompanying tsunami of the 2010 Maule, Chile, earthquake (magnitude 8.8) killed more than 300 people, affected nearly 2 million others, and damaged or destroyed approximately half a million homes, schools, hospitals and other buildings.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck Turkey yesterday, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands.

It was 21 January 2010, 8 days after a magnitude - 7.0 earthquake ravaged the capital of Haiti, killing between 65,000 and 300,000 people and leaving over 1.8 million people homeless.

On 25 April, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the country, killing more than 5000 people, and injuring thousands more.

A massive 8.8 - magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile over the weekend killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless.

Hundreds of people have been killed following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico.

The earthquake was of 6.4 magnitude that toppled several buildings, possibly killing hundreds.

Heritage sites damaged in fatal Italian earthquake A 6.2 - magnitude earthquake has hit central Italy, killing at least 73 people and destroying buildings in several historic towns.

This is quite reminiscent of the 1999 Izmit Turkey magnitude 7.4 earthquake which killed over 17,000, where traditional structures had been left standing amidst four - to five - floor collapsed apartment buildings....

In a paper calculating new Chinese earthquake risks in Geophysical Research Letters, a team led by Japanese and American geophysicists analyzed shifts in stress along several faults around the area where a magnitude 7.9 temblor killed nearly 70,000 people and drew rare citizen protests because so many schools crumbled.

On May 12, 2008, in the Sichuan Province in China, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 killed 69,197 people (with 18,222 missing still missing).

A magnitude 6 earthquake will cause a stone hut to collapse, killing the inhabitants, but will only mildly damage the average US home, and not kill anyone.

«After a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck central China last May, killing 69,000 people, injuring hundreds of thousands and leaving millions homeless, the government is planning an extensive reconstruction project that includes building more than 1.5 million temporary homes, which are expected to last two or three years.

In April 2015, the devastating 7.8 magnitude Gorkha earthquake in Nepal killed more than 8,000 people, injured more than 21,000, and destroyed the homes and schools of hundreds of thousands more.

In 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal to its core, killing thousands of people and wounding many more.