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The earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, a distance of more than 350 km from the city, in the Cocos Plate subduction zone, specifically in a section of the fault line known as the Michoacán seismic gap at coordinates 18. 190 N 102. 533 W. The Cocos Plate pushes against and slides under the North American Plate, primarily along the coasts of the states of Michoacán and Guerrero in Mexico.
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On November 4, 1952, an earthquake occurred under the sea off the Kamchatka Peninsula.
No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.
The deadliest earthquake of all times, the Shaanxi earthquake of 1556 that killed approximately 830, 000 people, occurred during the Jiajing Emperor's reign.
The Rock of Calvary is seen cracked through a window on the altar wall, the crack traditionally being said to be caused by the earthquake that occurred when Jesus died on the cross, and being said by more critical scholars to be the result of quarrying against a natural flaw in the rock.
The opportunity to relocate the village occurred when it was substantially damaged by an earthquake, with villagers offered a completely new village in exchange for the old site.
The earliest documented earthquake in Japan occurred in 416 when the Imperial Palace at Kyoto was leveled by the severity of the Earth's tremors.
On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7. 8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2, 500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.
Another much less severe earthquake occurred near the city in September 2011.
Haiti's economy was severely impacted by the 2010 Haiti earthquake which occurred on January 12, 2010.
In the aftermath of the earthquake that occurred off the Chilean coast on 27 February 2010, there were reports of damage and loss of life from a tsunami that hit the island.
During the consultations on 21 May an earthquake occurred ; the participants were terrified and wished to break up the assembly, but Courtenay declared the earthquake a favorable sign which meant the purification of the earth from erroneous doctrine, and the result of the " Earthquake Synod " was assured.
* 1992 – 5. 8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt.
Tremors continue in the vicinity of Quetta ; the most recent major earthquake occurred in October 2008.
The most recent major earthquake occurred on October 11, 1918 and had an estimated magnitude of 7. 5 on the Richter scale.
On August 19, 1977, an earthquake measuring 7. 0 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 316 people, including islands off the West coast.
The deep, damp soil in these areas is subject to liquefaction during earthquakes, and most of the major damage close to the Bay in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 occurred to structures on these areas.
The most catastrophic recent earthquake was the magnitude-7. 3 Chi-Chi earthquake, which occurred in the center of Taiwan on 21 September 1999, killing more than 2, 400 people.
Turkey's most severe earthquake in the twentieth century occurred in Erzincan on the night of December 28 – 29, 1939 ; it devastated most of the city and caused an estimated 160, 000 deaths.
On one occasion his device indicated that an earthquake had occurred in the northwest.
As there was no perceivable tremor felt in the capital his political enemies were briefly able to relish the failure of his device, until a messenger arrived shortly afterwards to report that an earthquake had occurred about 400 km ( 248 mi ) to 500 km ( 310 mi ) northwest of Luoyang in Gansu province.
The 1999 İzmit earthquake which occurred in the northwestern of Turkey killed 17, 217 and injured 43, 959.
In November, the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurred off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean.
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* 2007 – An 8. 0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1, 090.
In the 1980s, geologists found evidence that an earthquake, powerful enough to send a tsunami all the way to Japan, hit the American Pacific Northwest in 1700.
* August 13 – Arica earthquake in southern Peru ( at this time ) with an estimated magnitude between 8. 5 and 9. 0 kills around 25, 000 with the resultant tsunami recorded on the far side of the Pacific Ocean.
On September 29, 2009, an earthquake struck in the South Pacific, near Samoa and American Samoa, sending a tsunami into Pago Pago and surrounding areas.
The stone railway station in the film was built in 1904 for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and is one of the few commercial buildings in central Santa Rosa to survive the earthquake of April 18, 1906.
Santa Cruz's historic Pacific Garden Mall suffered severe damage during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
The Northridge earthquake was an earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 04: 31 Pacific Standard Time in Reseda, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, lasting for about 10 – 20 seconds.
The tundra was the Soviet Union's northernmost zone of snow and ice, stretching from the Finnish border in the west to the Bering Strait in the east and then running south along the Pacific coast to the earthquake and volcanic region of northern Kamchatka Peninsula.
Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the Pacific Grand Prix was moved from early in the calendar to the end.
One of the smaller New Georgia islands, Ranongga, was lifted three meters ( 10 ft .) out of the Pacific Ocean by the 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake, causing an expansion of its shoreline by up to 70 meters all around.
Stresses from the neighboring North American Plate and Pacific Plate cause frequent earthquakes in the interior of the plate, including the M7. 2 Humboldt County earthquake which caused $ 1. 75 million in damages in 1980.
Then on March 18 at 3: 45 p. m. Pacific Standard Time ( all times will be in PST or PDT ), a shallow Richter magnitude 4. 2 earthquake ( the initial reading was 4. 1 ), centered below the volcano's north flank, signaled the volcano's violent return from 123 years of hibernation .| deadurl = no
On October 30, 2007, the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake, a 5. 6 earthquake, hit the Bay Area at 8: 04 pm Pacific time.
The Pacific round was moved due to the Kobe earthquake, with it now one week before the Japanese Grand Prix.
Immediately following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, a seismic gap analysis of the seismic zones around the Pacific Ocean identified the Central Kuril segment of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench subduction zone as the most likely to give rise to a major earthquake.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, or PNSN, collects and studies ground motions from about 400 seismometers in the states of Oregon and Washington to monitor volcanic and tectonic activity, and gives advice and information, and works to mitigate earthquake hazard.
Damaging earthquakes are well known in the Pacific Northwest, including several larger than magnitude 7, most notably the M9 Cascadia earthquake in 1700AD and the M7. 0-7. 3 earthquake in about 900AD on the Seattle Fault.
This event spurred the installation of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ( PNSN ) in 1969 to monitor regional earthquake activity.
* April 18-The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake strikes, damaging the Southern Pacific Railroad's headquarters building and destroying the mansions of the now-deceased Big Four.
The Fort Tejon earthquake occurred at about 8: 20 am ( Pacific time ) on January 9, 1857 in central and Southern California with an estimated moment magnitude of 7. 9.
The 1857 earthquake ruptured about 350 km of the southern part of the San Andreas Fault, the structure that accommodates most of the displacement along the transform boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.
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