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An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes may also be referred to as quakes, tremors, or temblors. The word tremor is also used for non-earthquake seismic rumbling . In its most general sense, an earthquake is any seismic event ...
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) [7] [11] killed 8,962 people in Nepal and injured 21,952 more. It occurred at 11:56 Nepal Standard Time on Saturday 25 April 2015, with a magnitude of 7.8 M w [1] or 8.1 M s [12] and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X ( Extreme ). Its epicenter was east of Gorkha District at ...
The Marrakesh–Safi earthquake is the strongest instrumentally recorded in Morocco's history, surpassed only by upper estimates of the 1755 Meknes earthquake, at M w 6.5–7.0. It occurred at 19.0 km (11.8 mi) depth, and had a magnitude of M ww 6.8, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), [24] while Morocco's seismic agency ...
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes. / 37.166; 37.032. On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC ), a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was 37 km (23 mi) west–northwest of Gaziantep. [2] The earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII ( Extreme) around the epicenter and in ...
Earthquake preparedness. Preparations for earthquakes can consist of survival measures, preparation that will improve survival in the event of an earthquake, or mitigating measures, that seek to minimise the effect of an earthquake.Common survival measures include storing food and water for an emergency, and educating individuals what to do ...
The USGS provided a map of Asia in May 2008, which showed a total of 122 earthquakes occurring on the continent. The large red square near the center of the map depicts the 7.9 magnitude Chengdu quake in the Sichuan province. A USGS map shows that dozens of aftershocks occurred in a small region following the quake.
An earthquake occurred at 08:50:39 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October 2005 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a territory under Pakistan. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Earthquake environmental effects are the effects caused by an earthquake, including surface faulting, tsunamis, soil liquefactions, ground resonance, landslides and ground failure, either directly linked to the earthquake source or provoked by the ground shaking. [1] These are common features produced both in the near and far fields, routinely ...