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Cross-sectional illustration of normal and reverse dip-slip faults. The earthquake occurred in the Virginia seismic zone, located in the Piedmont region. [8] The Virginia Piedmont area was formed originally as part of a zone of repeated continental collisions that created the ancestral Appalachian Mountains, a process that started during the Ordovician period with the Taconic orogeny and ...
see 2011 Lorca earthquake: 37.699 -1.673 9 5.1 M w (USGS) Centred 50 km SW of Murcia, Spain, at a depth of 1 km. [15] May 19, 2011 20:15 Western Turkey see 2011 Kütahya earthquake: 39.137 29.074 2 5.8 M w (USGS) Centred 53 km NNW of Uşak, Turkey, at a depth of 9.1 km. [16] June 13, 2011 02:20 South Island of New Zealand see June 2011 ...
Overall, the risk of an earthquake in the city is high from even a moderate earthquake because most of the city's aging infrastructure was built without seismic codes. [7] A 2008 study from Columbia University found that the New York area was at "substantially greater" risk of a 6 or 7 magnitude earthquake than was previously thought. [8]
Officials in New York City say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Queens and Roosevelt Island on Tuesday morning, not an explosion.. Around 5:45am, the FDNY received reports of buildings ...
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
Hundreds in New York City said they were jolted awake by the rare earthquake, thinking it was caused by some type of explosion. Rare earthquake jolts New York City not long after one in Maryland ...
Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006, to July 2008 on History Channel.Produced by Creative Differences, the program explores potential catastrophic threats to individual cities, countries, and the entire globe.
The earthquake, tentatively measured at 4.8 magnitude, shook buildings and rattled homes from Maine to Maryland, with an epicenter in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, according to the U.S ...