Sentences with phrase «strongest quake ever»
«Residual strain despite mega earthquake: Even the strongest quake ever measured left energy for successors.»
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In 1964 a region of this same tectonic clash, called the Alaska — Aleutian Subduction Zone, produced the magnitude 9.2 «Good Friday» earthquake, the second - strongest quake ever recorded.
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The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.
Two other segments of the Ring of Fire ruptured this way — Chile in 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest quake ever recorded on Earth, and Alaska's horrible Good Friday earthquake of 1964, at 9.2 the strongest jolt ever to hit the continent of North America.
In the winter of 1811 to 1812, a series of colossal quakes — by some estimates among the strongest ever seen in what is today the continental United States — exploded beneath what is now the American Midwest.
Most of Oklahoma's earthquakes are small, but MyShake users in the state, which number only about 200, easily detected the Sept. 3 magnitude 5.8 quake, the strongest ever to hit the state.