Biggest earthquakes in recent California history
Taiwan lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a line of seismic faults where most of the world's earthquakes occur. Taiwan's worst quake in recent years struck in 1999, with a magnitude of 7.7, causing 2,400 deaths, injuring around 100,000 and destroying thousands of b...
The power of such eruptions is measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), a classification system developed in the 1980 that's similar to the magnitude scale for earthquakes. The scale goes from 1 to 8, and each succeeding VEI is 10 times greater than the last. There haven't ...
Japan has a notorious earthquake history. About 1,500 earthquakes strike the island nation every year. Minor tremors occur on a nearly daily basis. Deadly quakes are a tragic part of the nation's past. Japan has such a large potential for earthquakes and disaster because the nation sits atop...
I'm from Chile so I'm used to earthquakes, but this was by far the biggest. It is ranked top 5 in history, and my parents were at the 9.5 in Valdivia in the 60's, so don't come and cry about a 7.1 or 7.5. That is common here. A couple of weeks ago we had a 7.2 in ...
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Although beautiful, the sea is also dangerous, with frequent volcanic activity, earthquakes and destructive hurricanes. Spain claimed the Caribbean Sea after Christopher Columbus came across it in 1493, making the Caribbean a main route for treasure-hunting expeditions and, later on, trading. There ...