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BBC News reported the 7.6 magnitude destroyed 55,000 houses and killed 241 people.. There was a recent magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Tibet that killed 126, according to CNN.. This is not the first ...
The epicenter of the strongest earthquake, which measured M w 5.2, was about 28 km (17 mi) northeast of Awash, and the depth of the event was approximately 10 km (6 miles). [4] Shaking was felt across central Ethiopia. [5] On 13 October, a M w 4.6 quake struck Oromia at around 07:37 local time.
Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.
The group was underwater when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and string of aftershocks shook the country, the videographer said. Watch scuba divers grab onto reef as swarm of underwater earthquakes ...
The 2007 Peru earthquake, which measured 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale, [4] hit the central coast of Peru on August 15 at 23:40:57 UTC (18:40:57 local time) and lasted two minutes. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The epicenter was located 150 km (93 mi) south-southeast of Lima at a depth of 39 km (24 mi). [ 4 ]
On 8 September 2023 at 23:11 DST (22:11 UTC), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) struck Morocco's Al Haouz Province. The earthquake's epicenter was 73.4 km (45.6 mi) southwest of Marrakesh, near the town of Ighil [2] and the Oukaïmeden ski resort in the Atlas Mountains. [3]
The 2014 Iquique earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on 1 April, with a moment magnitude of 8.2, at 20:46 local time (23:46 UTC). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The epicenter of the earthquake was approximately 95 kilometres (59 mi) northwest of Iquique . [ 1 ]
The magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Bakersfield was felt over a wide area of Southern California. Experts say there are several reason for this, including its size, time of night and the so-called ...