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The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a Mw 7.8 earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016 NZDT (11:02 on 13 November UTC). [2] Ruptures occurred on multiple faults and the earthquake has been described as the "most complex earthquake ever studied". [8]
On 12 November 2017 at 18:18 UTC (21:48 Iran Standard Time, 21:18 Arabia Standard Time), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.3 occurred on the Iran–Iraq border, with the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja, and the Kurdish dominated places of Ezgeleh, Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province in Iran, closest to the epicentre, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city of Halabja, Iraqi ...
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. [ 3] In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost completely destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas.
1931 Valentine earthquake Utah: 7.0 November 13, 1901 1901 Richfield earthquake U.S. Virgin Islands: 7.5 November 18, 1867 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami Vermont: 4.0 March 31, 1953 [55] Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Washington (state) 8.7–9.2 January 26, 1700 1700 Cascadia earthquake West Virginia: 5.8
Around 900 earthquakes hit the south of the country on Monday 13 November, with tens of thousands of tremors reported in the region of Reykjanes in recent weeks. All roads to Grindavik are closed ...
1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake: 8.6 13 April 11, 2012: Sumatra, Indonesia 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes: 8.6 14 November 10, 1922: Atacama, Chile 1922 Vallenar earthquake: 8.5–8.6 15 February 1, 1938: Banda Sea, Indonesia (then part of the Dutch East Indies) 1938 Banda Sea earthquake: 8.5–8.6 16 October 13, 1963: Kuril Islands, Russian ...
12 dead, [note 1] 136 injured, 1 missing. A major earthquake struck northern Peru on November 28, 2021, 5:52 a.m. local time with a magnitude of 7.5 on the moment magnitude scale between the Amazonas and Loreto departments of Peru. [3] A maximum Modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) of VII ( Very Strong) was reported in the town of Santa Maria de ...
On November 30, 2018, at 8:29 a.m. AKST (17:29 UTC), a magnitude 7.1 [1] earthquake hit Anchorage in South Central Alaska. [5] The earthquake's epicenter was near Point Mackenzie, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Anchorage, and occurred at a depth of 29 miles (47 km). It was followed six minutes later by a magnitude 5.7 aftershock centered 2.5 ...