Megathrusts are created in earthquake zones-land plate boundaries where two plates converge. In the areas where one plate is beneath another, stress builds up over time. During a megathrust event, all of that stress releases and some of the world's most powerful earthquakes occur. Remember the...
This map shows the seismic intensity of the estimated 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled the greater New York City metropolitan area. The quake was felt across the Northeast region.USGS What is the magnitude scale of earthquakes? The magnitude scale is the most common way to measure the size...
This 7.1 earthquake struck 10.5 miles north-northwest of Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert, a day after another 6.4-strong earthquake struck 7.5 miles southwest of the Searles Valley in the Mojave Desert. Multiple aftershocks were felt after both, but the latter was the strongest earthquake in the...
C. What to do during an earthquake.D. How to save water.BOnce upon a time, there was a girl named Marie Curie. She was very smart but didn't have money. She had to work hard to pay for her education. Marie was born in Poland in 1867. Her father was clever and everyone knew...
4.1 magnitude earthquake jolts Tennessee, parts of Georgia and Carolinas Five fishermen who spent 55 days adrift at sea arrive in the Galapagos Islands In: Cargo Ship Oil Spill Shipwreck Fire United Kingdom Haley Ott Haley Ott is the CBS News Digital international reporter, based in the CBS New...
Luckily, Christchurch escaped damage in the Kaikoura earthquake. A large swathe of suburbia was abandoned as the government bought up destroyed homes, razed them and turned it all to grass. Today, streets lead nowhere, and home gardens have grown w...
The Richter scale is a scientific scale to calculate the magnitude of an earthquake. It was created by Charles F. Richter at the California Institute of Technology in 1935.Answer and Explanation: Prior to the invention of the Richter scale to measure the absolute magnitude of an earthquake, ...
Or this 2016 magnitude 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand: Even though this was relatively mild (especially for a 7.8) and it didn’t even knock the pictures off the wall, their mistake was waiting too long to get cover. The first 40 seconds are relatively mild. We’re not suggesting you sta...
Megathrusts are created in earthquake zones-land plate boundaries where two plates converge. In the areas where one plate is beneath another, stress builds up over time. During a megathrust event, all of that stress releases and some of the world's most powerful earthquakes occur. Remember the...
Until recently, experts believed fairly definitively that the continent was named "Australia" by Matthew Flinders in 1802. Flinders was the first to circumnavigate the land mass, and he later created a map that named the continent Australia. The Latin "Australis" mean "southern." But now, ...