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Allegory of the 1755 Earthquake, by João Glama Ströberle (who depicted himself standing on a pile of rubble on the lower-right corner). In the upper-left corner is an angel holding a fiery sword, personifying divine judgement. The earthquake and its aftermath strongly influenced the intelligentsia of the European Age of Enlightenment.
The ruin of Portage A plank driven through a tire by the tsunami in Whittier The 5-story JCPenney department store in Anchorage in 1964, following the earthquake. As a result of the earthquake, 131 people are believed to have died: [3] Nine died as a result of the earthquake itself and another 122 died from the subsequent tsunamis all over the ...
13 [4] The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara, California on June 29, with a moment magnitude between 6.5 [1] and 6.8 [3] and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent). It resulted in 13 deaths and destroyed the historic center of the city, with damage estimated at $8 million (about $111 million in 2017).
UTC time: 1940-05-19 04:36:47: ISC event: 901341: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: May 18, 1940 (): Local time: 21:35 PST: Magnitude: 6.9 M w [1]: Depth: 16 km (9.9 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Type: Strike-slip: Areas affected: United States, Mexico: Total damage: $6 million [2]: Max. intensity: MMI X (Extreme) [1]: Casualties: 9 dead [2] 20 injured [3]: The 1940 El Centro earthquake (or 1940 Imperial ...
The earthquake prompted a thorough review of New Zealand building codes, [32] which were found to be totally inadequate. [33] The first earthquake building code was created in 1935. [8] Many buildings built during the 1930s and 1940s are heavily reinforced, although more recent research has developed other strengthening techniques.
UTC time: 1976-05-06 20:00:12: ISC event: 713583: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: 6 May 1976 (): Local time: 21:00:13 [1]: Magnitude: 6.5 M w [1]: Depth: 10 km (6.2 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Type: Dip-slip [2]: Areas affected: Italy Yugoslavia Austria: Max. intensity: EMS-98 X (Very destructive) [3]: Foreshocks: 4.5 mb 6 May at 19:59 [4]: Casualties: 990 dead [2] 1,700–3,000 injured [2]: The 1976 ...
Seismic base isolation, also known as base isolation, [3] or base isolation system, [4] is one of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. [5] It is a collection of structural elements which should substantially decouple a superstructure from its substructure that is in turn resting on the shaking ground, thus ...
Earthquake light. An earthquake light also known as earthquake lightning or earthquake flash is a luminous optical phenomenon that appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions. [ 1 ] There is no broad consensus as to the causes of the phenomenon (or phenomena) involved.