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A series of earthquakes and aftershocks striking the border region between southeast Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday is feared to have killed 20,000 people.. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake ...
Detailed satellite images give a bird’s-eye view Turkish towns before and after the earthquakes hit, and of relief efforts. Satellite images show shocking destruction caused by Turkey ...
The 3-D Full-Scale Earthquake Testing Facility [1] or E-Defense (Japanese: E-ディフェンス) is an earthquake shaking table facility in Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. [2] Operated by the Japanese National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), [ 3 ] it was the largest 3D earthquake shake table in the world ...
M 4 earthquakes are considered minor on the Richter Scale, according to the USGS, and are often felt by people. It was followed by an M 2.8 in the same area, minutes later.
The United States typically has around 63 earthquakes between magnitude 5.0 and 5.9 each year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, about five between 6.0 and 6.9 and fewer than one between 7. ...
According to researchers who reported the event in Nature, this sunquake was comparable to an earthquake of a magnitude 11.3 on the Richter scale. That represents a release of energy approximately 40,000 times greater than that of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and far greater than that of any earthquake ever recorded. Such an ...
This page contains a list of image resources which may be useful to WikiProject Earthquakes, for enhancing articles within its scope. Many excellent images can be found on Wikimedia Commons, especially in the categories listed at right.
Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan's north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest shaking caused no major damage.