Fast Facts about the Japan Earthquake and TsunamiFrancie Diep
Here are some of the amazing facts about the Japan earthquake and tsunami. The earthquake shifted Earth on its axis of rotation by redistributing mass, like putting a dent in a spinning top. The temblor also shortened the length of a day by about a microsecond. More than 5,000 aftershocks...
As an example of the power of earthquakes, the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, California released energy equivalent to almost 2 billion kilograms of explosive, about 100 times the amount of energy that was released by the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima during World War II. At magnitude 6.7...
根据文章倒数第四段In March 2011,the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people.(2011年3月,日本东海岸的Tohoku 地震引发了海啸,这是导致15000多人死亡的主要因素。)和倒数第五段An earthquake in the Indian Ocean ...
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia in December 2004 caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries. In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people. The tsunami...
Most earthquakes occur in the ‘Ring of Fire’ region in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. In the United States of America, Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state followed by California. Earthquakes usually last for less than a minute, but they can cause potential damage in such a short span...
The world’s worst landslide started by an earthquake occurred in 1920 in the Kansu province in China. The landslide killed about 200,000 people.[11] The highest tsunami caused by an earthquake happened in Japan in 1771. A tsunami 278 feet (85 meters) high struck Ishigaki Island.[11] ...
city's coast due to its location near the Japan Trench - a subduction zone where the Pacific and North American plates meet. In 2005 a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred about 65 miles (105 km) from Sendai and most recently the massive 9.0 earthquake struck 80 miles (130 km) from the ...
December 26th 2004 an Earthquake in the Indian Ocean measuring a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter Scale resulted in a massive Tsunami hitting the region which resulted in the deaths of over 230,000 people. March 11th 2011 off the coast of Honshu Japan a magnitude 9.0 earthquake caused a massi...
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia in December 2004 caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries. In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people. The tsunami...