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Iceland earthquakes: Your rights if you are on holiday there or are planning to go Eruption could be ‘hours or days' Saturday 11 November 2023 14:49 , Lydia Patrick
First supershear earthquake observed in an oceanic plate boundary 2015-04-24 South of Haida Gwaii: 51.62 -130.77 0 0 6.2 V 2012-11-08 West of Vancouver Island 49.23 -128.48 0 0 6.1 IV 2012-10-30 Haida Gwaii: 52.37 -131.90 0 0 6.2 Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake 2012-10-28 Haida Gwaii 52.67 -132.60 0 0 6.3 V Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake
2024 Hyūga-nada earthquake. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Kyushu, Japan. A tsunami advisory is issued for parts of the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. (The Japan Times) Politics and elections. 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. Non-cooperation movement. Muhammad Yunus returns to Bangladesh to lead the country's interim ...
The Cascadia subduction zone is a 960 km (600 mi) fault at a convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi) off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States. It is capable of producing 9.0+ magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis that could reach 30 m (98 ft).
In its latest update, the forecaster said there were around 100 earthquakes on Monday, with a “swarm” near the town which lasted just over an hour before midnight.
Iceland earthquakes: Your rights if you are on holiday there or are planning to go. Eruption could be ‘hours or days' 14:49, Lydia Patrick. Icelandic authorities have completed the evacuation of ...
The area where the earthquake occurred is seismically active, although earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.0 or larger are infrequent. In the preceding 100 years, there were three events above M 6.5 within 250 km of the 22 January event, with the largest being a M 7.1 event in 1978, approximately 200 km to the north.
1946 Vancouver Island earthquake. / 49.62; -125.26. The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake struck Vancouver Island on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on June 23 at 10:15 a.m. [1] with a magnitude estimated at 7.0 Ms [2] and 7.5 Mw. [6] The main shock epicenter occurred in the Forbidden Plateau area northwest of Courtenay.