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6 days ago · The earthquake information includes: CUSP ID, magnitude, date, time, epicenter coordinates and depth. The station information includes name and/or code, location coordinates, and peak velocity and acceleration values.
Jul 20, 1998 · Earthquake, any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Earthquakes occur most often along geologic faults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another.
Terminology. An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes may also be referred to as quakes, tremors, or temblors. The word tremor is also used for non-earthquake seismic rumbling .
Feb 6, 2023 · Most are too minor to feel but strong earthquakes can cause massive destruction—like this bridge that collapsed in Taiwan after an magnitude 6.8 earthquake in September 2022 caused severe...
Oct 19, 2023 · Hundreds of earthquakes occur on Earth everyday. Most of them are small, barely detectable by most people. But occasionally there is a much more significant quake. On average, a major earthquake —one with a magnitude of 7.0-7.9—strikes somewhere on the planet more than once a month.
EMSC (European Mediterranean Seismological Centre) provides real time earthquake information for seismic events with magnitude larger than 5 in the European Mediterranean area and larger than 7 in the rest of the world.
Click or tap on a circle to view more details about an earthquake, such as location, date/time, magnitude, and links to more information about the quake. Local time is the time of the earthquake in your computer's time zone.
3 days ago · A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Panama on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 2:19 p.m ...
The earthquake has caused building collapses, landslides and caused power outages across the island.
