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This is a list of earthquakes in 2016. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or ... Ruptures occurred on multiple fault lines in a complex sequence that lasted for ...
The earthquake started at about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-east of Culverden and 60 kilometres (37 mi) south-west of the tourist town of Kaikōura and at a depth of approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 miles). [3] [11] [12] The complex sequence of ruptures lasted about two minutes. [1]
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (Japanese: 平成28年熊本地震, Hepburn: Heisei 28-nen Kumamoto jishin) were a series of earthquakes, [2] including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 (16:25 UTC on April 15) beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), [8] and a foreshock earthquake with ...
This foreshock was the first recorded in the 2016 Alboran earthquake sequence. Twenty-four aftershocks measuring 4.0 or greater were recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. Four of the aftershocks had magnitudes greater than 5.0, with the largest measuring a 5.3 just over ten minutes after the mainshock.
The quake's epicenter was near the city of Kumamoto and measured at a depth of 40 km (25 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan early on Saturday near the city of Tainan, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Quake fells Taiwan apartment building, at least five dead Skip to main ...
Often referred to as the Valentine's Day earthquake, it was centred in the sea off New Brighton at a depth of 15 kilometres (9.3 mi). [4] It was the first large earthquake that the Christchurch area had experienced since May 2012, and it was part of the earthquake sequence that started with the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake .
Oklahoma was struck by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake on Saturday morning, the third-strongest quake ever recorded in the state. Oklahoma hit by its third-strongest earthquake ever Skip to main content