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This is a list of earthquakes in 2012. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. All dates are listed according to UTC time. Two huge 8 magnitude earthquakes (8.6 and 8.2) struck Indonesia in April, but caused little damage, and no tsunami.
The earthquakes in this area primarily occur on buried faults between the Amarillo Uplift and the Anadarko Basin. [3]: 24 An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5–6.0 is expected to occur every 50–100 years in the Texas Panhandle, while an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 6.0 is expected to occur every 300 years. [5]
Pages in category "2012 earthquakes" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... 2012 El Salvador earthquake; 2012 Gippsland earthquake;
The earthquake happened around 3:27 a.m. MT, nearly 24 miles southwest of Mentone, Texas.
Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the route ' or ' the pass ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, [5] making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. [8]
No damage was reported in El Paso. Several adobe buildings in Juarez were cracked from roof to ground by the quakes and a vacant building collapsed. El Paso history 1931: Multiple earthquakes rock ...
[10] [11] The earthquake has a maximum slip of about 2.5 m. [12] The 1950 earthquake essentially the same part of the plate boundary as the 2012 earthquake. [11] The same area was struck by a M7.7 earthquake in 1950 but had been quiet before the recent earthquake, and the segment of the plate boundary was known as the Nicoya Peninsula seismic ...