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A 2021 map showing how a tsunami could impact San Francisco was ... when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the California coast. It led to 5 million people being put under tsunami warnings in the ...
In San Francisco, a tsunami triggered by a large earthquake in Alaska would take approximately five hours to reach the city of over 800,000 residents, the 2021 maps showed. “Where the coast is ...
2021 Haiti earthquake sequence (only earthquakes with magnitudes 5.0 or greater) Date and time Location M MMI Ref 2021-08-14 12:29:08 13 km SSE of Petit Trou de Nippes 7.2 VIII [1] 2021-08-14 12:49:33 20 km WNW of Cavaillon 5.2 V [29] 2021-08-14 16:08:03 10 km NW of Baradères 5.1 VII [30] 2021-08-14 18:11:10 12 km NNE of Baradères 5.1 III
The 2013 study said the tsunami-inundation zone impacts hundreds of thousands of residents and land in 94 incorporate cities, 83 unincorporated communities, and 20 counties on the California coast.
Some of the earthquakes in Haiti have been very destructive to the country. The widespread damage and high-number of casualties of events in 2010 and 2021 can be partially blamed on the fact that most of the population in Haiti resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, in which they are made of stone and concrete.
The 2021 Haiti earthquake was the largest to strike the country since the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake. More than 138,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, most of them in Les Cayes and Nippes. 2,248 people were killed, 12,763 others were injured and 329 people remained missing. It is the deadliest earthquake of 2021. [338] 2,248 12,763 16 [339]
The damage done by a severe earthquake in Haiti that has left more than 1,200 dead and hundreds missing could be seen in satellite images released on August 15.Maxar Technologies published the ...
Districts of Haiti Map of Haiti. 1691. Earthquake [2] 1751. 3 June: Earthquake at Port-au-Prince and areas to the south. The city and towns were destroyed. [3] [4] 1816. 18–19 November: [5] a cyclone caused considerable damage in the countryside of Ouest department and in the Gulf of Gonâve. 1842. 7 May: Earthquake at Cap-Haïtien and ...