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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 last earthquake on the territory of Croatia that had a magnitude of 6.0 M L was in Ston in 1996. In 1969, the fault system which extends from Jastrebarsko over this area towards Banja Luka had a 6.6 M L earthquake which hit the latter city , and that one was also preceded by significant foreshocks one day earlier.
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 earthquake was caused by the sudden rupture and motion along a strike-slip fault, 18.6 kilometres (12 mi) beneath Lincolnshire. [1] Earthquake motion occurred over a time span of ~2 minutes but it was most intense and was felt at the surface for just 10 to 30 seconds; maximum vertical ground motion at the epicentre of the earthquake was only ~1 mm.
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 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 ]
There was a cluster of earthquakes starting from the one occurring on 16 March with a magnitude of M w 6.7, and a large earthquake had been expected. [8] [9] The 8.2 earthquake was smaller than what was expected, with a rupture of 200 km (120 mi) in length instead of the expected 600 km (370 mi) rupture. [10]
This earthquake occurred on the same fault as the larger magnitude 7.8 earthquake of 25 April, but further east than the original quake. [1] As such, it is considered to be an aftershock of the April quake. [1] It struck at a depth of 18.5 km (11.5 mi). Shaking was felt in northern parts of India including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. [6]