Earthquake Causes of an earthquake

An earthquake is when Earth's tectonic plates shake and move Earth's surface. Strong earthquakes damage buildings. Disturbances in the Earth cause earthquakes...

Earthquake engineering is the study of the behavior of building structures subject to earthquake impacts. It is a subset of civil engineering. The main...

Chilean Earthquake or Valdivian Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. The quake occurred in the early evening (19:11 UTC) of May 22...

The earthquake caused much damage, according to the National Fire Agency, Ministry of the Interior R.O.C. This damage included: 2,415 people died or were...

The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude earthquake followed by tsunami waves. It was measured at 8.4 on the JMA seismic intensity scale...

caused by the earthquake. It caused about 139 deaths. The earthquake lasted four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. It was a magnitude 9.2 earthquake....

A 6.9 earthquake occurred on March 11, 2010, 40 kilometers southwest of Pichilemu, O'Higgins Region, Chile . A tsunami warning was made by the Pacific...

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake was a very bad earthquake that occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. It killed around...

Estimation by Causes of Death Due to the 1923 Kanto Earthquake". Journal of Jaee. 4 (4): 21–45. doi:10.5610/jaee.4.4_21. "Today in Earthquake History". Retrieved...

Prieta Earthquake was an earthquake that took place in the San Francisco Bay Area. It happened on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. The earthquake caused over...

biggest earthquake of the 20th century. It is also the biggest earthquake on record that was not caused by an oceanic subduction. Instead, it was caused by...

The 1999 İzmit earthquake was an approximately 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck northwestern Turkey on August 17, 1999. It happened at around 3:01...

2011 Christchurch earthquake was responsible for causing additional damage to an already earthquake-devastated region. The earthquake took place around...

The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 12:51 pm on 22 February 2011 NZT. (This...

process where parts of the Earth went under each other and crashed together. This causes a lot of earthquakes there. These earthquakes happen because the...

earthquake was a very strong earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010. On the scientific scale that measures the magnitude (or strength) of an earthquake...

A magnitude 6.8–6.9 earthquake hit Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco on 8 September 2023 with an depth of 18.5 km. The maximum Mercalli intensity was IX (Violent)...

parts of Asia. The date of the earthquake was unusual. The earthquake happened exactly two years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that caused terrible...

Mw 7.5 earthquake happened in the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake caused a tsunami along the Sea of Japan. As of 26 March...

On 5 August 2018, a major earthquake measuring Mw 6.9 (7.0 on Richter scale) struck the island of Lombok, Indonesia. It was the main shock following its...