- An
earthquake – also
called a quake, tremor, or temblor – is the
shaking of the Earth's
surface resulting from a
sudden release of
energy in the lithosphere...
-
Earthquakes are
caused by
movements within the Earth's
crust and
uppermost mantle. They
range from weak
events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden...
- On 26
December 2004, at 07:58:53
local time (UTC+7), a
major earthquake with a
magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw
struck with an
epicentre off the west
coast of northern...
-
March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1
undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the
Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the
Oshika Peninsula...
- On 6
February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a Mw 7.8
earthquake struck southern and
central Turkey and
northern and
western Syria. The
epicenter was...
- The 2010
Haiti earthquake was a
catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw
earthquake that
struck Haiti at 16:53
local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12
January 2010...
- This is a list of
earthquakes in 2024. Only
earthquakes of
magnitude 6 or
above are included,
unless they
result in
significant damage and/or casualties...
- Look up
earthquake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
earthquake is the
result of a
sudden release of
energy in the Earth's
crust (the
outer layer)...
- 1556
Shaanxi earthquake (Postal romanization: Shensi),
known in
Chinese colloquially by its
regnal year as the
Jiajing Great Earthquake "嘉靖大地震" (Jiājìng...
- An
earthquake occurred in the
province of Sichuan,
China at 14:28:01
China Standard Time on May 12, 2008.
Measuring at 8.0 Ms (7.9–8.3 Mw), the earthquake's...
