Powerful Earthquake Strikes Outside Anchorage, Alaska
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A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off western Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Thursday, which has been ravaged by floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
At least three minor to moderate earthquakes struck Thursday morning in the Geysers area of northern Sonoma County, according to the USGS.
Two strong earthquakes struck Japan Tuesday at magnitudes of 5.4 and 4.7, according to data from the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The first quake struck in the Pacific Ocean about 80 miles east-southeast from Kitaibaraki at a depth of around 6 miles, 10 km, the data shows. Kitaibaraki is about 110 miles northeast of Tokyo.
A minor earthquake struck near Bedminster on Wednesday, lightly shaking parts of central New Jersey and continuing a recent pattern of small
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6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Reported In US
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake was reported in Alaska on Thursday (November 27), according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was centered near Willow, at a depth of 69.4 kilometers (about 43 miles). The USGS said it received 6,827 reports of people having felt the earthquake as of Wednesday afternoon.
The temblor measured up to an upper 5, the fourth-highest level on Japan's 10-point seismic intensity scale, and occurred at a depth of 9 kilometers.
Mild earthquake tremors felt across the Kalat district in Balochistan on Tuesday. According to the Seismological Center, the
All three of the earthquakes were centered within five miles of Gilroy, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 earthquake is every 10 years. He put that at 30 years for a magnitude 4.5 quake. The chance of a severe earthquake ever happening in Minnesota is extremely unlikely, Chandler wrote:
An earthquake off the coast of Maine rattled parts of Massachusetts around 10:22 a.m. Monday morning. According to data from the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake originated about 11 kilometers, or roughly seven miles, southeast of Maine's ...
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