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Saturday's earthquake was the seventh of magnitude 3 or greater since Sept. 12, when a magnitude 4.7 earthquake just north of Malibu was widely felt across Southern California.
A 3.2 magnitude earthquake shook part of San Luis Obispo County near Diablo Canyon Power Plant on ... A magnitude 3.2 earthquake occurred at 12:05pm today 12/27/23, location 8km NW of Avila Beach ...
It was two-fifths of a mile northwest from the epicenter of a magnitude 3.4 earthquake that rumbled on June 2, and about one-quarter of a mile west of a magnitude 2.8 earthquake that struck on June 4.
The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]
This meant that giant earthquakes such as the 1960 Chilean earthquake (M 9.5) were only assigned an M s 8.2. Caltech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori [ 47 ] recognized this deficiency and took the simple but important step of defining a magnitude based on estimates of radiated energy, M w , where the "w" stood for work (energy):
A landslide caused by the earthquake in El Salvador. Buildings after the earthquake in the India. A magnitude 7.5 struck Mindanao, Philippines on January 1 at a depth of 33.0 km (20.5 mi). [1] A magnitude 6.8 struck Mindanao, on January 1 at a depth of 33.0 km (20.5 mi). [2]
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 1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake occurred at around 16:30 local time . It measured 7.4 M w and had a maximum intensity of IX ( Violent ) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale . The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology assigned a maximum intensity of VIII ( Very Destructive ) on the PHIVOLCS earthquake intensity scale .