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This is a list of earthquakes in 1957. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Lower magnitude events are included if they have caused death, injury or damage. Events which occurred in remote areas will be excluded from the list as they wouldn't have generated significant media interest. All dates are listed according to ...
The first of the 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occurred on April 24, 1957, with the second and larger event about seven hours later on the following day. Both earthquakes had epicentres in the eastern Mediterranean between Rhodes and the coastal city of Fethiye in Muğla Province , southwestern Turkey.
The Guerrero seismic gap is a ca. 200 km long segment of the subduction interface, which has not had a large earthquake since the 1911 event. Although several slow earthquakes have been observed in that time interval, an earthquake in the range M 7.9–8.0 could still be expected within the Guerrero gap. [6]
The earthquake struck southern Mongolia at 11:37:53 local time on December 4, 1957. Rupture was complex, with multiple scenarios proposed. The original hypothesis was that the earthquake occurred along the strike-slip Bogd fault and ruptured for 560 km (350 mi), [1] however, the more recently adopted conclusion is that there was a 250–300 km (160–190 mi) [15] long strike-slip rupture at a ...
The earthquake's rupture dimensions was an area of fault estimated at 50 km (31 mi) by 25 km (16 mi). It was the second largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in the Alborz, behind the 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake (M w 7.3). The earthquake's fault plane solution indicates it occurred along a northwest–southeast trending reverse fault.
A series of aftershocks — including a massive quake with a 7.5 magnitude — rocked the Gaziantep region for hours. The earthquakes flattened buildings in southern Turkey and northern Syria.
Earthquakes (6.0+ M w) between 1900 and 2017 Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history.
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, more than 2,000 landslides displaced families in western North Carolina. They are waiting to find out if rebuilding is even possible or safe.