Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake killed»

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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.

The area experiences about 20 small quakes a year, plus the occasional monster, such as the magnitude 7.3 shake in 1886 that killed 60 people.

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.

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.

In February that year, a quake of 8.8 magnitude killed more than 700 people and shifted the Earth's axis.

The magnitude 9.2 quake and the tsunami that it triggered killed more than 250,000 people, flattened villages, and swept homes out to sea across Southeast Asia.

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.

Most cause no serious damage, but a 5.9 magnitude quake near Athens in 1999 killed 143 people.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude - 6.3 quake hit the city, killing 309 people.

Several months after we return home, another team will report in the journal Nature that these twice - daily ice quakes measure a staggering magnitude 7 — strong enough to topple cities and kill thousands if they were to happen in a populated area.

The devastating magnitude 7.0 quake that ripped through Haiti Tuesday, reportedly killing thousands, did not catch everyone by surprise.

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.

In 1999 a magnitude - 7.6 quake struck near Izmit, just 70 kilometres from Istanbul, killing around 17,000 people.

In the early evening of Tuesday, 1 April, a magnitude - 8.2 quake occurred off the coast of northern Chile, killing six people, generating 2 - meter - high waves, and prompting the evacuation of nearly 1 million coastal residents.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude - 6.3 quake hit, killing 309 people.

I checked in with Sieh on Wednesday in the wake of the latest powerful quake, a 7.7 magnitude event that spawned a potent tsunami and has killed, at last count, more than 300 people.

In 1868, for example, a 7.9 magnitude quake caused millions in damages and killed 77 people.