Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake near»

There are plenty of reasons damage and deaths from the 7.1 - magnitude earthquake that struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday utterly paled compared to the absolute devastation wrought by the 7.0 - magnitude quake near Port - au - Prince, Haiti.

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

Not exact matches

But in 2001, a huge burst of pressure was released through Jurassic - era fault lines near the center of the Indian plate, triggering a magnitude 7.7 quake that took 20,000 lives.

In California not too long ago, a magnitude 4.8 quake struck near the southern San Andreas, the biggest so close to the fault in the history of seismic recording.

The federal licenses for the Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, are valid for at least another decade, but opponents were citing seismic and tsunami - related concerns even before last week's magnitude 9.0 quake off the coast of northern Japan

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

The worst damage reported was to the University of Concepción, near the epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude quake.

The after - effects of this volcanic outburst are still being felt today, as earthquakes like the 5.8 magnitude quake centered near Mineral, Va. in 2011 still rumble through the faults weakened by the volcanoes.

That April 1 quake, which struck offshore near the village of Pisagua, was the largest in Chile since a magnitude - 8.8 quake hit farther south in 2010.

For example, in the weeks before a magnitude - 5.4 quake struck about 15 kilometers northeast of San Jose in October 2007, an instrument near the epicenter sensed a number of unusual magnetic pulses, presumably emanating from deep in the Earth.

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators found that when stress exerted on Earth's crust was high, the levels of a helium isotope, helium - 4, released in the groundwater was also high at sites near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 quake in southwestern Japan, which caused 50 fatalities and serious damage.

The magnitude 5.1 quake was centered near La Habra in northwestern Orange County about 21 miles (33 kilometers) east - southeast of Los Angeles, and was widely felt throughout Southern California.

The largest number of phones to record a quake was 103, after the 5.2 magnitude quake that occurred on the San Jacinto fault near Borrego Springs in San Diego County on June 10.

An interactive USGS map showing Thursday's 5.3 - magnitude earthquake in relation to Tuesday's quake near Point Conception.