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In his review for Childhood Education in 1997, J. Robert Dornish described the story as "absolutely riveting", noting that it is likely to affect the reader's reactions to news reports of earthquakes. [2]
The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake) [4] occurred in the western United States on August 17 at 11:37 pm in southwestern Montana. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale , [ 1 ] caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left $ 11 million (equivalent to ...
Undersea Megathrust Earthquake, Tsunami, Contamination (Radioactive) 2011 Japan: Great Hanshin earthquake: $200 [8] $399.9 5,502 – 6,434 Earthquake 1995 Japan: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes: $157.8 [9] [10] $157.8 59,488 – 62,013 Earthquake 2023 West Asia ( Turkey, Syria) 2008 Sichuan earthquake: $130 [11] $184 87,587 Earthquake 2008 ...
The avalanche is reported to have started between Pumori (Left) and Lingtren (middle peak) [2] Khumbutse to the right Mount Everest was approximately 220 kilometres (140 miles) east of the epicentre, and between 700 and 1,000 people were on or near the mountain when the earthquake struck, [3] [4] including 359 climbers at Base Camp, many of whom had returned after the aborted 2014 season. [5]
The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.
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.
The earthquake produced its own aftershocks (some registering a magnitude of as high as 6.9 [40]) and presently ranks as the third-largest earthquake ever recorded on the moment magnitude or Richter scale. Other aftershocks of up to magnitude 7.2 [41] continued to shake the region daily for three or four months. [42]
The figure of 230,000 dead is based on a historical conflation of this earthquake with earthquakes in November 1137 on the Jazira plain and the 1139 Ganja earthquake in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja. The first mention of a 230,000 death toll was by Ibn Taghribirdi in the fifteenth century. [11] 533 Aleppo earthquake: November 29, 533