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Last update: June 28, 2011 at 11:33 pm by By
The Mercalli intensity scale is a scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake. The scale quantifies the effects of an earthquake on the Earth's surface, humans, objects of nature, and man-made structures on a scale from I (not felt) to XII (total destruction). I MMI … [Read more...]
Last update: June 25, 2011 at 3:01 pm by By
Although me made already an effort in explaining a lot in our report on June 23/24 (click here to read it), we also want to give the USGS seismologists view of what exactly happened. The date of occurrence was June 23 (local) and June 24 (UTC - used by the seismology agencies) The June 24, … [Read more...]
Last update: May 21, 2011 at 4:30 pm by By
As always with deadly earthquakes, Earthquake-Report.com tries to explain what really happened, so that people from the area as well as the international community can understand what causes these cruel events. We call upon our Turkish readers to translate our English text into Turkish. The … [Read more...]
Last update: May 13, 2011 at 4:33 am by By
What a sad day for earthquake-report.com. What should have been a party day for the people behind this website, turned out in another deadly earthquake. This time in Spain. Since we started in August we have seen numerous cruel earthquakes. To name only a few : Mentawai tsunami (Indonesia), … [Read more...]
Last update: March 18, 2011 at 12:24 am by By
The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, which occurred near the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan, resulted from thrust faulting on or near the subduction zone plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates. At the latitude of this earthquake, the Pacific plate moves … [Read more...]
Last update: March 8, 2011 at 9:20 am by By
Since a few months the transform fault zone about 350 km out of the Coos Bay Oregon coast is discharging energy by means of earthquakes of magnitude 5.x The Blanco Transform Fault as it is called, has become the most intensely studied ocean transform fault in the world. Oregon State University … [Read more...]
Last update: March 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm by By
Earthquakes-Report collection of in-depth reports describing various side subjects of this earthquake. RR = Earthquake-Report recommended reading Geologist says : Map faults before start rebuilding The location and scale of potential faults under the Canterbury Plains must be understood … [Read more...]
Last update: June 28, 2011 at 9:38 pm by By
Worldwide glossary of common earthquake-related terms (compiled by James Daniell) (shortened list of the most important terms) Acceleration The rate of change of velocity of a reference point. Commonly expressed as a fraction or percentage of the acceleration due to gravity (g) where g = 980 … [Read more...]
Last update: January 28, 2011 at 10:35 am by By
The depth of this earthquake was 84 km so fortunately the violence of ground shaking was strong but not as severe as it would have been for a shallower earthquake of the same magnitude. For example, the ground shaking expected at the epicenter of the January 18, 2011 earthquake was about one-fourth … [Read more...]
Last update: January 28, 2011 at 10:36 am by By
The January 2nd 2011 Araucania, Chile earthquake occurred as a result of shallow thrust faulting on or near the subduction interface between the Nazca and South America tectonic plates. At the location of this event, the Nazca plate moves east-northeastwards with respect to South America at a … [Read more...]
When the monstrous tsunami of March 2011 struck the northeast coast of Japan, the retreating waves pulled many pieces of civilization and many lives out to sea. The Japanese government estimated that 5 million tons of debris was swept up by the event, with about 70 percent sinking to the sea floor and 1.5 million tons left floating. More than a year later, the debris from that tragedy is still drifting on the Pacific Ocean, though no one can say for sure how much and where.
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