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What is Earthquake Magnitude? Understanding the Scale of a Disaster

The modern system for measuring earthquakes has strengthened, and they precisely amplify and record ground motion at periods ...

What's the risk that the Berkeley earthquake was a foreshock for a bigger quake?

Experts with the U.S. Geological Survey have attached a specific percentage to the risk that Monday morning's earthquake ...
USA Today

Russian 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit on 'megathrust fault'

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. The quake, the largest since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, occurred on a ...
Men's Journal

Rare 2.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Major U.S. City

View post: Jackery's Most Popular Power Station Is on Sale for $429, and It Comes With a Free $295 Solar Panel An earthquake recently struck near a small town in Colorado, and the shaking could be ...

Is the Bay Area at risk of the 'big one' after back-to-back earthquakes?

Ryan Easley, a former associate of Joe Exotic of Tiger King fame, is dead after being mauled by a tiger. Easley was doing a ...
Statesman Journal

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast. How often does this happen?

A nearly 6 magnitude earthquake struck 102 miles off the Oregon Coast on Sept. 8, followed by a series of aftershocks. The 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 9:08 p.m., southwest ...
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Drake Passage rattled by 7.5 magnitude earthquake near southern tip of Chile and Argentina

A powerful earthquake struck late on Thursday night in the remote waters of the Drake Passage, a stretch of ocean that lies between the southern tip of South America and the northern edge of ...