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"earthquake" Definitions
  1. a sudden, violent shaking of the earth’s surface

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Friday's earthquake was 11 times stronger than Thursday's 6.4 magnitude earthquake.
The California Earthquake Authority offers most earthquake policies for homeowners and renters.
INDIA EARTHQUAKE Shaken: A strong earthquake hit northeastern India early this morning.
The earthquake was felt as far as Fairbanks, the earthquake center said.
Mexico City was hit on Tuesday with a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, two weeks after another powerful earthquake and exactly 32 years after the catastrophic 1985 earthquake.
The result of earthquake damage left unrepaired after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The China Earthquake Administration reported a magnitude-21 earthquake at 2000:213 p.m.
The same goes for anyone living in earthquake country without an earthquake kit.
We'd heard that it looked like China predicted this earthquake, (the 1975 Haicheng earthquake).
The earthquake happened on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed thousands.
Tuesday's earthquake came after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the island early Monday morning.
Japan developed the world's most advanced earthquake early warning system after the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
Ecuador earthquake It's been two days since a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck coastal Ecuador.
Mexico earthquake A mammoth earthquake hit early this morning off the coast of southern Mexico.
A 3.8-magnitude earthquake had originated from a nearby location, the Alaska Earthquake Center tweeted.
Taiwan earthquake The search for the missing is on after a powerful earthquake rocked Taiwan.
Yet if Brexit was a political earthquake, Scotland has suffered a less-noticed economic earthquake, too.
Indonesia earthquake The death toll in the earthquake that rocked the country's Aceh province is rising.
Mexico earthquake At least 0003 people have died in a 7.1-magnitude earthquake near Mexico City.
A strong earthquake hit south and central Alaska early Sunday, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.
The "Kobe earthquake took one month, Tohoku earthquake two months, and Kumamoto one month," he said.
The Sumatra earthquake isn't the only large earthquake to have occurred beneath the moon's bright glare.
But for "buildings in an earthquake zone, cheaper is always more expensive" when an earthquake hits.
Though the Cholame earthquake was only a 4.3, sensors originally registered the earthquake as a 4.8.
The main source of earthquake insurance in California is a nonprofit, publicly managed organization known as the California Earthquake Authority, founded two decades ago in the wake of the Northridge earthquake.
The Alaska Earthquake Center, the state's earthquake monitoring agency that's based at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, tweeted the earthquake originated in Glacial Bay National Park at 22019:21 pm local time.
Shocked by the nearly $17 billion in payouts they made in that earthquake, insurance companies balked at offering further earthquake policies, forcing the state to step in and establish the earthquake authority.
Dubbed "the Earthquake Lady," she's worked to make earthquake science more accessible to policymakers and the public.
Iran-Iraq earthquake Hundreds are dead after a powerful earthquake rocked the Middle East over the weekend.
Local organizations are receiving support through the Indonesia Earthquake Relief Fund and the Earthquake Relief for Lombok.
Someone suggested Terremoto [Earthquake], and I thought, No way I would name my daughter after an earthquake.
Caribbean earthquake A strong earthquake rocked the Caribbean Sea, and now, the region is bracing for tsunamis.
It was the strongest earthquake in East Tennessee since a 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Maryville, Tenn.
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck Thursday near Kumamoto, followed by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake just 28 hours later.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the c A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the c America is changing fast!
The region's largest earthquake recorded by scientific instruments — and its deadliest — was a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in 1915.
Monday's earthquake Monday's earthquake was felt in the capital of Manila as well as other parts of Luzon.
This one had a 6.9 magnitude earthquake: The current eruption was accompanied by an earthquake on May 4.
Despite earthquake after earthquake hitting Palu over the years, the 224 magnitude quake last month caught officials unprepared.
Working with earthquake experts, private engineers and the business community, city leaders developed a strong earthquake plan to retrofit LA's concrete building structures and minimize the damage they could cause in a large earthquake.
The epicenter of the recent big earthquake triggered by the eruption is very close to the epicenter of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck in 1975, the largest Hawaiian earthquake on record, triggering a tsunami.
"A step from a 7.0 earthquake to an 8.0 earthquake releases about 32 times as much energy," he says.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southern Mexico on Monday, following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in the region last Friday.
Tuesday's earthquake took place on the anniversary of a devastating earthquake that killed thousands in Mexico City in 1985.
The earthquake was felt hours after the city had an earthquake drill commemorating the anniversary of the 1985 quake.
I think it's as valuable to know when it's not a bad earthquake than just when a bad earthquake happens.
NEW VIDEO: 7.1 #California #earthquake: Last night's earthquake turned a beauty tutorial video into that lipstick scene from "Airplane". pic.twitter.
Iran-Iraq earthquake That powerful earthquake that struck along the Iran-Iraq border is the deadliest quake of the year.
An earthquake initially measuring 6.0 magnitude struck Mindanao in the Philippines on Wednesday, the European earthquake monitoring service EMSC reported.
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon, 32 years to the day after the city's last great earthquake, in 1985.
It still stands as the second-largest earthquake ever recorded, behind the magnitude 73 earthquake that struck Chile in 1960.
The earthquake comes after a citywide earthquake drill commemorating the anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed thousands of people.
In a release issued Tuesday, the California Earthquake Authority—the largest residential earthquake insurer in the state—said it has seen a jump in the number of Californians signing up for earthquake insurance coverage so far this year.
China&aposs national earthquake administration gave the earthquake&aposs magnitude at 5.7 and said it struck 13 kilometers (8 miles) deep.
The red shaded area shows earthquake fault lines in Haiti, while the yellow shows earthquake fault lines in the Dominican Republic.
August 25, 2016 Following a deadly earthquake in Italy, we're explaining the potential pros and cons of an earthquake warning system.
Sunday night's earthquake comes on the heels of a 5.6-magnitude earthquake two months ago that rattled a half-dozen states.
If you want to send aid to earthquake victims, check out how to help with our guide to Mexico earthquake relief. 
LATEST ON ITALY -- 73 CONFIRMED DEAD AFTER MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE: Via CNN, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit central Italy early this morning.
The earthquake had a depth of 4.7 miles, and there have been no reports of damage from the earthquake so far.
The earthquake had a depth of 4.7 miles, but there have been no reports of damage from the earthquake so far.
The San Andreas fault hasn't experienced a ground-rupturing earthquake in more than a century — an unprecedented "earthquake drought," seismologists say.
Petersen said the annual earthquake hazard report has been used by engineers to evaluate earthquake safety of buildings, bridges, and pipelines.
Only 20143 percent of California homeowners have earthquake insurance, raising questions on whether earthquake insurance should be mandatory for mortgage holders.
"Given a choice between an earthquake in California and a predicted flood, I would choose an earthquake any day," she said.
Travelers Indemnity, the No. 1 writer of earthquake insurance between 2010 and 2012, saw its market share shrink dramatically after it stopped offering new earthquake coverage in 2014, a move filings show was based on concerns about earthquake exposure.
The largest possible earthquake that can strike throughout most of the San Andreas is an 25 magnitude, according to Southern California Earthquake Center spokesperson Mark Benthien, who says the bigger the earthquake, the lower the probability of it striking.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's capital city Wellington was rocked by 5.7 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday, according to the country's earthquake monitoring service.
Tuesday's earthquake struck on the 32nd anniversary to the powerful 1985 earthquake that devastated Mexico City and left about 10,000 people dead.
One of the best points of reference for an earthquake this size is the 9.0 earthquake that hit Tohoku, Japan in 2011.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake is 15.8 times bigger and 63.1 times stronger than a 5.2 earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The CEA was created by the California Legislature in 1996 to assure availability of earthquake coverage for homeowners following the Northridge Earthquake.
Roughly 4,791 people died in 1976 during a 7.9 earthquake in the area and 1,666 died in 1990 during a 7.8 earthquake.
First a M7 earthquake hit the Japanese island of Kyushu, then a little more than day later, a M7.8 earthquake hit Ecuador.
The earthquake occurred shortly before the 85033th anniversary of the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake that killed 63 people and injured thousands.
City of Portland, Earthquake Response Appendix, 16; Department of Homeland Security, Draft Analytical Baseline Study for the Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami, 127.
"Donate to earthquake relief here," Ayesha wrote, focusing her priorities instead on raising money for UNICEF in response to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that ripped through Mexico City earlier this week and the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Mexico Saturday.
Here's what to do before, during and after an earthquake, according to the Department of Homeland Security, Earthquake Country Alliance and Red Cross.
Earthquake The Fourth of July fireworks started early out West, as a 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook residents from Southern California to Las Vegas.
That earthquake, which prompted strict modifications to building codes, is remembered every September 19, when many buildings across the country hold earthquake drills.
This comes less then two weeks after another powerful earthquake struck Mexico, and exactly 32 years after the catastrophic 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
Oregon Office of Emergency Management, State of Oregon Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Operations Plan, 6-5; Portland Earthquake Appendix, 27.
To David Jackson, a California seismologist who has researched earthquake rates, that means Californians need to remain prepared regardless of projected earthquake rates.
Iran-Iraq earthquake The powerful 7.3 magnitude quake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands is the deadliest earthquake of 2017.
As the third earthquake hit, thousands of residents were reportedly holding a predawn earthquake drill in Manila, which wasn't affected by the quake.
One of the mechanisms is the earthquake insurance index which utilizes the magnitude of the earthquake to determine whether victims require insurance claims.
Watch this first to understand the key to the earthquake catalog movies that follow: Key to Earthquake Catalog Movies from seismicsoundlab on Vimeo.
"Only the earthquake remembers the earthquake victims," a banner headline on the front page of the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano read on Thursday.
Anchorage Goes Back to School After an Earthquake Some 215,260 students returned to class this week for the first time since the earthquake.
The earthquake was the deadliest to hit the nation since March 1987, when a 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed 1,000 people, according to the USGS.
Tuesday's earthquake also struck on the anniversary of a devastating 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico City in 1985, which killed about 9,5000 people.
Starting today, you can simply use Google (desktop and mobile) and search for 'earthquake' or 'earthquake near me' and find out what's going on.
Sunday's earthquake is potentially Italy's largest earthquake since a magnitude 6.9 quake struck southern Italy in 1980, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Japan developed the world's most advanced earthquake early warning system after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, based on the same principles of physics as California's.
Travelers Insurance Company, the sixth-largest provider of earthquake insurance in the state, stopped allowing existing policyholders to add earthquake coverage in November 2014.
The strongest earthquake before that one occurred in 1918, when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the island, causing a tsunami and killing 116 people.
The US conferred TPS on citizens of El Salvador after a 2000 earthquake, Hondurans after a 53 hurricane, and Haitians after a 25 earthquake.
I can imagine that knowing that other Italian places hit by an earthquake are relatively quickly forgotten by the authorities—Aquila's old town, for example, is still in shambles after the 2009 earthquake—can have some psychological impact on the victims of this latest earthquake.
Here are other earthquake facts from the USGS: Your pet may act strange during earthquakes That does not mean it knows an earthquake is coming.
The devastation from the 2010 earthquake led the US government to offer Temporary Protected Status designation to about 59,000 Haitian immigrants impacted by the earthquake.
Photo: APThe earthquake hit about 50 miles north of the town of Christchurch, which was previously struck by an earthquake measuring 6.3 back in 7.93.
Italy earthquake The ground won't stop shaking in central Italy where aftershocks are rattling residents and making rescue work difficult in the earthquake-ravaged towns.
An earthquake of magnitude 3503 shook central Mexico, destroying buildings and killing at least 230 people, on the anniversary of a devastating earthquake in 1985.
NYC Medics has provided aid in the aftermath of the Nepali earthquake, the Fukushima disaster, the Haitian earthquake, but this is its first war zone.
A strong earthquake struck southern Mexico on Saturday morning, the third major earthquake to hit the country this month, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Indonesian earthquake At least 91 people were killed when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake and strong aftershocks hit the Indonesian resort islands of Bali and Lombok.
Earthquake Central Mexico is still reeling from this week's 7.1 magnitude earthquake, and a recent development in rescue efforts has left more questions than answers.
The deadly earthquake took place on the anniversary of a 1985 8.1 magnitude earthquake that killed nearly 10,85033 people, according to the Los Angeles Times.
I'm assuming that cell networks will be badly disrupted by a big earthquake — that was certainly the case when I covered the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
He said the last time an earthquake of similar magnitude hit the Salt Lake City area was in 1962, when a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
A magnitude-24.5 earthquake struck the island on Saturday, rattling residents who were already reeling from a 250-magnitude earthquake off the coast on Tuesday.
Department of Homeland Security, Draft Analytical Baseline Study for the Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami, 132; Oregon Resilience Plan, 14; City of Portland, Earthquake Response Appendix, 23.
Tuesday's earthquake follows a large earthquake on Monday which struck near the town of Bodega on the Philippine island of Luzon on Monday, according to USGS.
An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck south of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on Tuesday, the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC said.
The 5.1-magnitude earthquake occurred along a fault line near Fairview, Oklahoma, the strongest earthquake in the state since a 5.7-magnitude quake hit Prague, Oklahoma.
A strong earthquake rocked the waters off the coast of Oregon on Thursday morning, in a region that has been anxiously bracing for a major earthquake.
YOU KNOW BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE, YOU GET THE RUMBLINGS AND THEN MAYBE YOU DON'T HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE FOR TWENTY YEARS, OR TEN YEARS, OR FIVE YEARS.
If you live anywhere near an earthquake zone (hello, San Francisco!), chances are you've occasionally wondered whether what you felt was an earthquake or just the rumbling of a heavy truck driving by (or whether it was a minor nearby earthquake or a big one farther away).
He attributed this fact to the fewer number of fatalities caused by the Kumamoto earthquake compared to larger earthquakes such as the Great Hanshin earthquake that hit Kobe in January 1995, and the Tohoku earthquake that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011, triggering a massive tsunami.
Intensity has to do with a lot of things, including your distance from the origin of the earthquake, the kind of waves the earthquake produces, and more.
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake (which is slightly lower than the potential 8.2-9.0 max that this fault could trigger) is 32 times stronger than a 7.0 earthquake.
Like the recent "Great East Japan Earthquake", as it has become known, that ancient earthquake more than a millennium ago generated a monster tsunami in its wake.
The earthquake came several hours after the North Slope was struck by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region, according to the state&aposs seismologist.
Afterwards, workers formed a labor union, called the Seamstress Labor Union of September 19—the date of both the 1985 earthquake and the 7.1 earthquake on Tuesday.
And last month, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake rumbled 100 miles southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia, the same day a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska.
Earthquakes and tsunami have been catastrophic, including the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Japan's 2011 tsunami, and the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
"I would say in our mind, the key difference is that in earthquake models, you have seismographs everywhere—wherever an earthquake happens, you'll find it," Venkatasubramanian said.
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Allstate returned nine years later, though, and that was after the state established the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), a publicly managed organization to sell earthquake insurance policies.
And a magnitude 6.1 earthquake rumbled 100 miles southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday, the same day a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska.
Dr. Parsons agrees that because the 2011 earthquake released a large amount of underground gases, it's likely that a larger earthquake will expel even more methane gas.
Another devastating earthquake has struck Puerto Rico, where hundreds of thousands are still recovering from the largest earthquake in a century that shook the island on Tuesday.
Later, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit a remote part of China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang on Wednesday morning, the country's earthquake administration said.
An exhibition highlight is the "Earthquake 5.9" collection (commissioned by Budri in 2012), which incorporates fragments of marble and onyx damaged by a 2012 earthquake in Emilia.
Central Italy hit with magnitude 0003 earthquake that levels ancient structures but spares lives Central Italy hit with magnitude 6.6 earthquake that levels ancient structures but spares lives Central Italy was shaken by a powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake Sunday morning, destroying centuries-old buildings and wounding at least 20.
And since the last large earthquake there occurred in 1857, the southern segment of the fault "is considered a likely location for an earthquake" in the coming years.
But in some cases, it says, homeowner's or renter's insurance may cover direct loss caused by explosion, theft or breaking glass following an earthquake -- even without earthquake insurance.
Primary school students take part in an earthquake drill ahead of the 29th anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, inside a classroom in Handan, China, on May 11.
In the case of Wednesday's earthquake in the Rieti region, the focal depth was only 4 kilometers, according to the Italian National Earthquake Center -- a very shallow event.
The government-run residential earthquake insurance scheme has paid out 1.27 trillion yen for the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, according to the General Insurance Association of Japan.
"This was a very, very strong earthquake, one of the strongest I've felt, and I was here in 1985 when that earthquake collapsed Mexico City," she told CNN.
On Friday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake – the island's largest since 1975 –shook the community just hours after a magnitude 5.4 earthquake triggered a fifth eruption in the subdivision.
Of course, whenever closely spaced earthquakes like this occur, people start getting worried that they are related somehow—that the big Japanese earthquake directly caused the Ecuadoran earthquake.
The fast-rising death toll makes it the deadliest earthquake in the world this year, eclipsing the earthquake in Mexico in September, in which 14 people were killed.
Theirs wasn't just any house, but an "earthquake shack," one of the thousands of wooden cottages built to temporarily house San Franciscans left homeless by the 1906 earthquake.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the worst since 1906, was followed by the 1991 Oakland fires, followed by the 1993 Malibu fires, followed by the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Oregon Office of Emergency Management, State of Oregon Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Operations Plan, 6-6; City of Portland, Earthquake Response Appendix, 23 ↩ 22.
In addition, the new earthquake widget on the search results page will display useful tips for what to do after an earthquake strikes (if it's a big one, though, chances are googling for 'earthquake' won't be at the top of your to-do list, so better get that info now).
Senate Bill 438, "Earthquake Safety: Statewide Earthquake Early Warning System Funding," would provide the means to complete systems that will save lives, protect property and help communities during earthquakes.
Moved by the animals' plight after the earthquake, Chan donated nearly $150,000 to the facility and became the "adoptive parent" of two panda cubs born shortly after the earthquake.
Context: This came exactly 32 years since the devastating Mexico City earthquake of 1985 and just two weeks after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico and killed 96 people.
So Nate saying that an earthquake could have happened, an earthquake and an election are obviously quite different in that one is a binary event, you've got two choices.
The Saturday earthquake was the strongest to rock Oklahoma since November 33, when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Prague, a small town roughly 70 miles south of Pawnee.
Over four thousand people participated in a largest-scale earthquake drill in the center of Tokyo on Friday (August 22011), simulating a 0003 magnitude earthquake hitting the nation's capital.
They begin to slide along the old microfracture faults — an earthquake within the earthquake — and the David's legs and ankles are crushed by the weight of the body above.
The insurer's net profit after tax from its New Zealand business more than halved over the year, impacted by the Kaikoura earthquake and additional claims from the Canterbury earthquake.
Richards had previously estimated that the worldwide earthquake generated by the KT impact could have been a thousand times stronger than the biggest earthquake ever experienced in human history.
In the quarter-century since Northridge, the last major earthquake in California, engineers have developed and tested technologies that can reduce earthquake shaking by as much as five times.
From an economic standpoint, it is cheaper to earthquake-proof our houses, like bolting the structures to their foundations, rather than expect little to no compensation from earthquake insurance.
On Tuesday, Puerto Rico experienced the largest earthquake in a century when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed one person, injured 9 others, and knocked out power across the island.
Singh: A political earthquake Two days after the Brexit vote and it is still difficult to come to terms with the magnitude of the political earthquake that has hit Britain.
"We don't need to wait for the big catastrophic earthquake — we have lots of small earthquake or landslides or something that interrupts the power lines in these areas," Yasukawa says.
She also used her senses to help assist after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the explosion of the PEMEX Tower in 2013, the Guaranda earthquake in Ecuador in 2016.
An earthquake that killed 4,000 people in Guatemala, for example, received a third of the coverage of an earthquake in Italy that killed around a thousand people the same year.
The zine included information about how to prepare for and survive an earthquake, and each hoodie came with a QR code that gave access to an early-warning earthquake app.
The 1985 earthquake was the more typical great earthquake that breaks the boundary between the plates, and caused great devastation in Mexico City despite being more than 100 miles distant.
The largest number of waveforms from a single earthquake to date comes from the M5.2 Borrego Springs earthquake in Southern California, for which MyShake collected 103 useful three-component waveforms.
Mr. Lee responded that he had instructed city officials to amend the city's earthquake safety plan to require a review of soil conditions and mandatory earthquake evaluations during property sales.
How a pandemic emergency is different from an earthquake or hurricane Pandemic flu is different than an earthquake or hurricane since it travels, so national coordination is even more important.
Forty-seven years ago, a much more powerful earthquake struck Sylmar — about an hour's drive from the epicenter of Tuesday's earthquake — killing 65 people and severely damaging four hospital campuses.
California has not had a major earthquake since 1994 when a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck northern Los Angeles neighborhood of Northridge, killing more than 60 people and causing widespread damage.
A simulation earlier this year of an earthquake on the Hayward fault across the Bay from San Francisco estimated that an earthquake could leave as many as 411,000 people homeless.
A quaint home in San Francisco that was originally 800 square feet is one of the remaining "earthquake shacks" built as temporary housing units after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
The 6.4 earthquake that struck Puerto Rico early Tuesday morning appears to have been one of the island's strongest since the San Fermín earthquake of 1918, which killed 116 people.
" MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, who was Bush's communications director, said this will be "the first time that Donald Trump, as president, will be accountable to anybody ... a political earthquake; an investigative earthquake.
" The latest tremor suggests that the earthquake on Thursday was a foreshock, though USGS expert cautioned "that's not to say that the Earth can't produce a bigger earthquake still to follow.
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan that day, leaving more than 20,000 people dead or missing in the earthquake and tsunami that followed, while hundreds of thousands more lost their homes.
Christchurch in New Zealand, for example, was not readily associated with a high earthquake risk before the 2011 earthquake – unlike the country's capital, Wellington, which sits near the main fault lines.
In the meantime, better understanding the fault system that could cause the next big earthquake is the only way to plan for a possible worst case scenario — a 7.4 magnitude earthquake.
The 23.6-magnitude earthquake Tuesday was about 103 kilometers from the epicenter of the 210-magnitude earthquake that hit September 23, said Jana Pursley, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An earthquake struck on land near the southwestern coast of Mexico on Monday, earthquake monitoring institutes said, but there were no immediate reports of major damages or injuries.
NATIONAL An article on Saturday about damage from an earthquake in Alaska misstated the given name of a man who experienced the earthquake at his condo near the University of Alaska.
The book returns over and over: Lisicky on the Deep Horizon oil spill in real time, the earthquake in Haiti, an earthquake in Chile, videos he's watching of tsunamis and volcanoes.
Here's what you need to know: • Britain's political earthquake.
New Zealand braces for tsunami after earthquake strikes near Christchurch New Zealand braces for tsunami after earthquake strikes near Christchurch New Zealand's east coast is bracing for further tsunami activity following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck just after midnight on the country's South Island, causing widespread damage and prompting thousands to evacuate their homes.
A Freak Earthquake Just Rattled the US MidwestA 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook parts of the US Midwest earlier this morning, rattling homes from…Read more ReadThis new investigation could influence how seismologists calculate the rate of natural earthquake activity in the L.A. basin, and potentially in other areas where oil and gas production is intense.
For example, Graves said a magnitude 7 earthquake would have a fault length of about 30 miles and a magnitude 8 earthquake would have a fault length of 250 to 300 miles.
A devastating 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico Tuesday on the exact anniversary of one of Mexico City's worst disasters, the 1985 earthquake that killed 10,000 people and left thousands more homeless.
"Many people, sometimes in good faith, sometimes not, make a lot of confusion between an event that can contribute to trigger an earthquake and the possibility to predict that earthquake," Piersanti said.
Image: USGS Earthquake mapCentral California is currently in the middle of an earthquake swarm, with up to 18 (and counting) tiny quakes shaking things up over the course of a single day.
Department of Homeland Security, Draft Analytical Baseline Study for the Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami, 105; Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Earthquake Risk Study for Oregon's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub, 9.
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE IN POPULAR TOURIST AREA RESULTS IN MULTIPLE DEATHS, OVER 160 PEOPLE INJURED The earthquake early Sunday killed 16 people, including an Indonesian student who was among the Mount Rinjani climbers.
The rise of China and South Korea diminished Japan's international prominence, and a series of disasters - including the 1995 Kobe earthquake and 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises - has marred Heisei's image.
Ushadidi went on to play a critical role in other crises including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and Japan's earthquake Tsunami, and as a violence warning system in the 2015 Nigerian elections.
"Scientifically, however, this region is poorly understood and the behavior of the fault or faults responsible for today's earthquake are not known," the Alaska Earthquake Center in Fairbanks said in a bulletin.
The state official said the reason why some insurers left after the 1994 earthquake was due largely to a California requirement at the time that they offer insurance earthquake policies for homeowners.
Salvadorans who were in the US before the earthquake in their native country qualified for TPS because the thinking at the time was that they couldn't return to an earthquake-ravaged nation.
Last summer, a fracking operation sparked a 4.8-magnitude earthquake 10 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John, B.C, in what may be the largest earthquake in the world caused by hydraulic fracturing.
After the first quake Wait out the aftershocks: Quakes of smaller magnitude nearly always follow the most severe shocks of an earthquake sequence, so be aware in the hours following the initial earthquake.
When one earthquake triggers another, that's an earthquake we can expect -- we know those happen, we can define where and when, and where is close to the fault that produces the main shock.
More than half of all injuries in the Loma Prieta earthquake in the Bay Area, and disastrous 1994 Northridge earthquake outside Los Angeles, were linked to hazards like falling ceiling lights and bookshelves.
"It's one day after the Ecuador earthquake and two days after the Japanese earthquake, so no real research has been done on these quakes as far as they're being connected," he said Sunday.
Haiti: Post-Earthquake Hunger and Desperation In a 2011 episode of No Reservations, Bourdain visited Haiti after an earthquake devastated the impoverished island nation, focusing on the food but delving into the devastation.
As we recently sat in a Port-au-Prince park, which housed thousands in tents after the earthquake, Farmer told me he believed the earthquake had awakened a "latent altruism" in human beings.
Nevertheless, the residential earthquake risk exposure of Japanese non-life insurers is much smaller, less than 23288% of that at 22781, as the government expanded its liability within Japan's residential earthquake reinsurance scheme.
Hours before Tuesday's earthquake, authorities held a citywide drill on the anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed an estimated 9,500 people in and around Mexico City, one the country's worst natural disasters.
On Wednesday, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of national mourning for victims of the earthquake, which occurred—coincidentally—on the anniversary of the country's 1985 earthquake that killed 10,000 people.
In 2009, an earthquake killed nearly 300 people and destroyed thousands of buildings in and around the town of L'Aquila, including a new hospital wing presumably built to meet the latest earthquake standards.
The yellow Labrador retriever was deployed to Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and traveled to Nepal following the deadly earthquake there in 2015, according to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation.
"Based on preliminary earthquake parameters... hazardous tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 300 km (186 miles) of the earthquake epicenter," the center wrote in an official message soon after the quake.
"The magnitude of the earthquake that's going to happen here is so significant that we really do need to have every critical facility in the best possible earthquake shape possible," Ms. Skinner said.
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Magna, Utah, on Wednesday morning, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people in the largest earthquake the state has felt since 1992, the authorities said.
Forrest Lanning, the earthquake program manager in California for FEMA, warned the handful of reporters in attendance at the Berkeley event that many Californians will be "on their own" after an earthquake hits.
Elsewhere, KYB Corp, a maker of earthquake shock absorbers, nosedived 10 percent after the company said that an external probe into data falsification in earthquake shock absorbers showed a need for further investigation.
But what's worse, since the beginning of this year, a series of earthquake continued to hit this area, including the 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Honduras on Jan 10, triggering Tsunami.
A report released last month by Italy's national insurance association said two-thirds of the country's municipalities were in earthquake zones, with a similar proportion of its buildings built without any earthquake protection.
Second earthquake hits country On Tuesday morning, there was another reminder of the constant threat of seismic activity in Indonesia when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook the island of Sumba in the east.
A few months before that, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the resort island of Lombok, killing more than 550 people, and a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Sulawesi, killing more than 2,100.
Amateur Radio Relay League, Amateur Radio Emergency Service (2015), 1; Department of Homeland Security, Draft Analytical Baseline Study for the Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami, 127; City of Portland, Earthquake Response Appendix, 34-35.
Last November, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the Kermanshah province.
The latest moderate earthquake briefly rattled CNN's Los Angeles bureau.
But it also gave birth to modern American earthquake science.
That earthquake has produced more than 1,400 aftershocks, scientists said.
Neither earthquake struck along the San Andreas Fault, officials said.
Every time we have an earthquake now, we say that.
Why is it so important to have an earthquake kit?
The USGS said the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.8.
Still, it proved to be an earthquake for California politics.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake at the volcano at 8.36 a.m.
Seismic shaking An asteroid impact would likely cause an earthquake.
Number three, the power of an earthquake is called magnitude.
Number four, earthquake themselves actually don't kill that many people.
Ecuadorian Red Cross #RedCross responds to strong earthquake in #Ecuador.
When the latest earthquake hit, the team rushed to action.
Imagine the earthquake that WILL strike California in your lifetime.
Albania was struck by an 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Nov.
The road is cracked after the earthquake in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
The death toll in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake on Sept.
Think about the earthquake in Japan which triggered a tsunami.
That earthquake prompted a tightening of building standards across Taiwan.
As a result, Alaska takes its earthquake preparation very seriously.
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He likened the impact of the explosion to an earthquake.
See article An earthquake hit the Taiwanese town of Hualien.
Earthquake victims receive medical treatment at a makeshift a hospital.
Can We Please Stop Blaming Fracking For Every Induced Earthquake?
Around the same time, an actual earthquake shook Los Angeles.
"This is the biggest earthquake catalog ever," Denolle told CNN.
The earthquake a year ago threatened Maya with lifelong misery.
Center of Mexico City right now after 7.4 earthquake. Scary.
It is March 12, 2016, one month before the earthquake.
"What horrible news about the earthquake in Mexico," she wrote.
Like Lemus and Perlera, Munoz was not an earthquake victim.
Praying for all those in Alaska after the huge earthquake!!
The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck central Mexico on Sept.
A building damaged by the earthquake that preceded the tsunami.
The proceeds will go to the victims of the earthquake.
Earthquake app may one day warn you tremors are coming
Zenkyoren manages earthquake risks by using reinsurance and catastrophe bonds.
It has been updated with this week's earthquake in Mexico.
But Texas has moved to install more earthquake monitoring stations.
Meanwhile, Facebook noticed a trend around the 2011 Fukishima earthquake.
Reconstruction after a devastating earthquake in 2010 is proceeding slowly.
"The earthquake is something you can never forget," she said.
That country was ravaged by a major earthquake in 2010.
The strong earthquake hit less than 10 miles outside Anchorage.
Prem Niroula captured a video when the earthquake first hit.
If a majority opts for "Brexit," a long earthquake begins.
The loss was due to an earthquake which hit production.
This is 73th and Harrison in #Pawnee #earthquake #okwx pic.twitter.
It survived the 1906 earthquake, and the fires that followed.
The area was hit by an initial earthquake on Aug.
The fault is capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake.
The earthquake was less powerful than many recent deadly quakes.
Brandenberg: Some bridges may not be passable after an earthquake.
The Seattle area was hit by an earthquake early Friday.
But the epicenter of last Tuesday's earthquake was northern Virginia.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1struck nearby on Sunday.
Sign up for earthquake alerts and get an emergency radio
An earthquake hit large swaths of Southern California on Thursday.
Here's what you need to know: • Deadly earthquake in Italy.
The last big earthquake in the area was in 1936.
The scale of the earthquake subsidy to California is massive.
Just like a hurricane or earthquake, attack the problem—immediately .
Tuesday's earthquake trapped students and killed at least 250 people.
It was Iran's deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.
It's like during an earthquake: the vibrations liquefy the earth.
One was the big earthquake and tsunami six years ago.
Example of an earthquake (the star) and data points nearby.
Winchester restored most of the damage inflicted by the earthquake.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near Fukushima, Japan, on Nov.
Special attention is placed upon the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
Geologists agree that another large earthquake is bound to occur.
A certain political reaction to the earthquake is already erupting.
But the subsequent 1989 earthquake illustrates that the threat remains.
Mexicans still feel the aftershocks of that year's political earthquake.
"We had an earthquake in the third act," she said.
Snapshot: Above, a family exploring earthquake damage in Wasilla, Alaska.
An earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi island on Sept.
The Magnitude 21993 Haiti earthquake was on January 22013, 21993.
About 40,000 people died in the earthquake outside of Istanbul.
Samar was struck by a powerful earthquake on Tuesday afternoon.
In April 2016, a catastrophic earthquake struck the Ecuadorean coast.
An earthquake killed more than 213 people there this month.
Trade retaliation, India's water crisis, and a World Cup earthquake.
An earthquake measuring 2000 magnitude also hit off the coast.
Reaction came in swiftly on social media as #earthquake trended:
Here, on April 260, 22009, an earthquake killed 309 people.
"When the earthquake hit we all went out," she said.
Rescuers search amid rubble following an earthquake in Amatrice, Italy.
In 1941, a large earthquake struck the islands, killing thousands.
That evening, there was a foreshock to the Weinstein earthquake.
They then create an "earthquake" by pushing and pulling handles.
Turns out there had been earthquake in Virginia that day.
"You've stirred up an earthquake," she said one told her.
The killing was an earthquake, and the aftershocks are coming.
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan.
The earthquake also was felt as far away as Havana.
A 85033 magnitude earthquake reportedly hit southern Kansas on Sunday.
When Apple makes a move, it usually causes an earthquake.
The USGS reported the earthquake as having a 5.4 magnitude.
The earthquake prompted a tsunami warning that was later lifted.
When the earthquake — 7.0 magnitude — toppled the capital on Jan.
The next earthquake will be coming from Palo Alto, Calif.
A devastating earthquake left hundreds of thousands dead in Haiti.
An 21960 earthquake 1,500 miles away in Mexico on Sept.
Last September, an earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami in Indonesia.
The island was hit by a deadly earthquake last month.
These requirements should prevent collapse when a massive earthquake happens.
Here's a guide for creating your very own earthquake kit.
Look at all this #damage from the #earthquake in California!
On Wednesday, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of national mourning for victims of the earthquake, which occurred—coincidentally—on the 32nd anniversary of the country's 1985 earthquake that killed 10,000 people.
Click here to view original GIFThat enormous flash over Indonesia is the December 26, 2004 Sumatra earthquake, the third largest earthquake ever recorded, which lead to a chain of tsunamis killing over 230,000 people.
"We know [the earthquake] happened the same year [as the flood] because fissures in the ground caused by the earthquake are filled with flood sediment, as are pottery jars [at the site," said Granger.
Boston's largest haunted house is actually the U.S.S. Salem, a naval vessel that once served as a hospital following an earthquake in 1953 – former crew members and earthquake victims still walk the ship, apparently.
File photo of damage from an earthquake in Napa in 2014 (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported on a 6.8 earthquake that struck Santa Barbara at 4:51pm.
The USGS research considers a magnitude 2.7 earthquake to be the level at which ground shaking can be felt, and an earthquake of magnitude 4.0 or greater is typically required to cause noticeable damage.
As part of his "Sichuan Earthquake Names Project", Mr Ai published the names of 5,335 students who died in the 2008 earthquake on his blog—names which the Chinese government had refused to release.
"This is the second-largest earthquake we've had since 1964, which was a very significant earthquake," Berkowitz told reporters Saturday, referring to the 9.2 quake that was the most powerful recorded in US history.
But in the case of Tuesday's earthquake, it's probably not an aftershock to the massive one earlier this month, because aftershocks don't happen hundreds of kilometers from the original earthquake weeks later, he said.
Sensors on the ocean floor will be used in the Pacific Northwest network to provide early earthquake warnings from the Cascadia subduction zone, which could deliver a devastating magnitude 9.0-earthquake in the region.
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For one, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator overseeing the GSEs, could propose rules requiring the GSEs to only purchase mortgages that carry earthquake insurance if the underlying property faces significant earthquake risk.
And with only indirect measurements, it can take up to a year to decipher the scale of an event, like the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, said Marine Denolle, an earthquake researcher at Harvard University.
At the time of the earthquake, he was working at a chicken farm in Petobo, one of two neighborhoods that were destroyed when the earthquake turned the soft, saturated soil beneath them into jelly.
Largest humanitarian crisis since 2010 earthquake UNICEF had warned on Wednesday that Haiti is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake, which killed at least 220,000, injured 300,000 and displaced 1.5 million people.
Originally thought to have been an earthquake, the South Korean meteorological administration claimed the incident was an "artificial earthquake" near Punggye-ri — the site that North Korea had used for its previous three nuclear tests.
These faults produce the largest earthquakes, reaching and even exceeding 2500 magnitude, with recent examples being the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, as well as the 2004 Banda Aceh earthquake and resulting Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Or take the Mirror's headline, "Barcelona celebrations cause an EARTHQUAKE after dramatic Champions League comeback against PSG," apparently adhering to a national style guide that mandates the word "earthquake" must be written in all-caps.
"Small local earthquakes—the Northridge earthquake, the San Fernando earthquake—they can kill people in the dozens, they can have freeways coming down, they can affect dams, and all of that is bad," he says.
Lozos theorizes that on December 8, 1812, the magnitude 7.5 earthquake, often called the San Juan Capistrano earthquake, was the result of both the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults rupturing at the same time.
Tuesday's earthquake came more than one week after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southern coast of the country, killing at least 90, according to the governor of the hard-hit state of Oaxaca.
But with "Painting in an Earthquake" it is hard not to see Ms. Schutz's recent history, too, given the art world earthquake she lived through and the tremors from it that are still being felt.
One study that looked at the effect of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China on the reproductive health of married women found sexual activity decreased significantly, and not just in the week after the earthquake.
Since 1900, Alaska has experienced an average of one magnitude 8 or greater earthquake every 13 years and one magnitude 7 to 8 earthquake every two years, according to the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission.
Micah: The first earthquake happened when he heard his alt's voice on the phone, then another happened when they touched each other Em: No. The first earthquake happened when Elliot woke up in the street.
Another Haiti earthquake survivor was purported to have survived 10 weeks.
When earthquake waves pass through it, it jiggles, magnifying the vibrations.
More than 3,000 people were killed in the earthquake and fires.
Unlike the earthquake, that policy was — and remains — an unnatural disaster.
An earthquake had flattened the city and killed hundreds of thousands.
Berkeley, CA (Reuters) - When an earthquake strikes literally every second counts.
It wasn't a tectonic earthquake, a landslide, nor a meteorite impact.
By the time they got to them, the earthquake was over.
A 1976 earthquake in northeastern China killed at least 250,000 people.
"This is the strongest [earthquake] I've ever felt," Tamara Hunt said.
The agency says the earthquake was recorded at 9:58 p.m.
Preliminary reports said the earthquake, which occurred at 2:30 p.m.
Damage inside a home in Osaka, Japan, after the earthquake struck.
The neighborhood grew—and then became rubble in the 22016 earthquake.
" "The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011.
In an NFL game, every big play is a content earthquake.
"People don't know that an earthquake even happened," says Michelle Bruzzese.
When there is an earthquake in California, I get advanced warning.
People commute during a blackout in Sapporo, Hokkaido, following the earthquake.
The earthquake toppled buildings and shredded structures into pile of debris.
States of emergency declared The earthquake hit Saturday around 7 p.m.
Patients were evacuated after Tuesday's earthquake at hospitals around the city.
"Earthquake prediction is like cancer treatment in the 60s," Piersanti said.
There's no doubt a massive earthquake is coming though, she added.
People embrace in the aftermath of the earthquake on Jan. 17.
Another earthquake in 1949 killed 5,000 people, Patiño told reporters Tuesday.
A severe earthquake in 1980 further weakened the ancient city's structures.
A woman injured during the earthquake walks outside North Lombok Hospital.
But officials warned that earthquake activity and "additional outbreaks" are expected.
The earthquake was not expected to generate a tsunami, officials said.
A major earthquake struck Alaska's biggest city, damaging highways and buildings.
The earthquake hit on Friday morning at 8:29AM local time.
A M 2.5 earthquake struct near Brawley, California on Sunday (star).
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First, there was a devastating earthquake that caused a massive landslide.

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