Its staff makes a preliminary determination of the epicenter of the quake and alerts tide stations near the epicenter for a tsunami.

The epicenter of the quake is within two miles of the campus.

On March 22, 1957 Daly City was again the epicenter of an earthquake, this one a 5. 3 magnitude quake on the San Andreas Fault, which caused some structural damage in Westlake and closed State Route 1 along the Westlake Palisades.

When the quake was first reported, it was thought Sycamore was the epicenter.

When the quake was first reported, it was thought Sycamore, Illinois was the epicenter.

The epicenter of the quake lay so close to coastal villages and towns that thousands could not flee in time, despite a tsunami warning system.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake struck 60 km south-southeast of Mexicali.

The quake struck on March 26, 1872 and its epicenter was near Lone Pine, California in Owens Valley.

The biggest quake since 1811 – 1812 was a 6. 6-magnitude quake on October 31, 1895, with an epicenter at Charleston, Missouri.

It is the biggest recorded quake with an epicenter in Illinois in that state's recorded history.

Mount Barker was the epicenter for an Earthquake on 16 April 2010 at 11. 35pm local time, the quake registered 3. 8 on the Richter scale.

Although the epicenter and moment magnitude of an underwater quake and the probable tsunami arrival times can be quickly calculated, it is almost always impossible to know whether underwater ground shifts have occurred which will result in tsunami waves.

The epicenter of the quake was in a mountainous and sparsely inhabited area.

After they returned, Lwów became the epicenter of the Polish – Ukrainian War, during which the city experienced a Ukrainian siege and a pogrom.

In the late 1760s, tensions between ( in a nutshell ) Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the Regulator movement or, as it was known, the War of the Regulation, which had its epicenter in Hillsborough.

As the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx has shifted to Brooklyn in the 2000s, Manhattan's Chinatown's Cantonese population still remains viable and large and successfully continues to retain its stable Cantonese community identity, maintaining the communal gathering venue established decades ago in the western portion of Chinatown, to shop, work, and socialize — in contrast to the Cantonese population and community identity which are declining very rapidly in Brooklyn's Chinatown.

Fayetteville is also the namesake of the Fayetteville shale, a geological formation which has recently become an epicenter for natural gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing.

It was a small, but vibrant community whose epicenter consisted of three blocks of Main Street around which located its churches, cafes, taverns, grocery stores, beauty parlors and barbershops and any number of local business enterprises.

Grozny was once again the epicenter of fighting after the outbreak of the Second Chechen War, which further caused thousands of fatalities.

By measuring the time difference on any seismograph as well as the distance on a travel-time graph at which the P-wave and S-wave have the same separation, geologists can calculate the distance to the earthquake's epicenter.

The highest point in the range is Loma Prieta Peak, near which is the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

The earthquake occurred far from any plate boundaries, which meant the region above the epicenter was unprepared for earthquakes.

Other violent earthquakes which have affected the island include: the 1957-58 seismic events associated with the eruption of the Capelinhos volcano ( on Faial ), the February 1964 earthquake on the island of São Jorge, and the 1926 earthquake, whose epicenter was registered in the Faial-Pico Channel.

The park features a visitors center and museum, a driving tour, the restored battlefields, hiking trails, a portion of the pre-war Old Telegraph / Wire Road, approximately two-and-a-half miles of the Trail of Tears as followed by some members of the Cherokee Nation and the restored Elkhorn Tavern, which was the epicenter of much of the battle.

The true size of this earthquake is not known, but historical evidence detailing the damage it caused in settlements and landforms near the epicenter, and the geographic extent to which noticeable movement was felt, leads researchers to estimate a Richter magnitude of 7. 6 to 8 or greater — similar in size to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The epicenter of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 was deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in Sagami Bay, close to Atami, which suffered considerable damage, as did other municipalities throughout the surrounding Kantō region.

The 7. 2 magnitude 2005 Miyagi earthquake, which occurred on August 16, 2005 had an epicenter close to the Miyagi Oki earthquake area.

In 1995, this island was the epicenter of the Kobe Earthquake which killed over 6, 200 people.

The city lives all its splendor during the Carnival celebration that lasts 4 days and 5 nights, being the headquarters city of Las Tablas Best Carnival of the republic, where one of the main attractions of the carnival in Las Tablas, are famous or culecos mojadera, which is sprayed with water ( clean and purified ) to the participants of this activity from sisternas cars ( especially pre-sterilized for this activity ) located throughout the park and surrounding streets are where the carnival, while can admire the tour of the queens of both streets, street up and down the street on spectacular floats, and suitable for this activity packed day, with the notes of the contagious and famous and well known murgas of Panama ( which also have its epicenter in the town of Las Tablas, where the best murgas the country ), do jumping and dancing for joy to young and old alike, unable to contain her joy and excitement following the queen with the most sympathetic all day without stopping or until the forces accompanying the activity takes place during four days of carnival, another attraction of this carnival is wasteful luxury and splendor of the costumes shown in the queens and their ladies, and the designs and finishes epectaculares floats of both daytime ( from culecos or mojaderas ) and evening, reaching its greatest splendor Carnival on Monday, his grace and charm of women represented in their Tableña and queens in ladies of his court to make the carnival Tableño one of the best and most famous carnavals the world.

The city was very near the epicenter of the devastating 8. 0-magnitude earthquake which struck south central Peru on Wednesday August 15, 2007.

The other is the Taipei Municipal Heping ( Hoping ) Hospital, which was quarantined for being the epicenter of the SARS outbreak in Taiwan.

The term " Shibuya-kei " comes from, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo known for its fashion stores, night life, and being an epicenter of Japanese pop culture, and the Japanese word, which literally means " system " or, in this context, " style ".

The area was badly shaken during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which had its epicenter in Sagami Bay just a few kilometers offshore from the city.

During the events of Batman: Cataclysm a massive earthquake struck Gotham City, the epicenter of which was less than a mile from Wayne Manor.

The city was the site of the epicenter of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, which occurred on October 8, 2005 and had a magnitude of 7. 6.

where h is the maximum tsunami-wave amplitude ( in m ) measured by a tide gauge at a distance R from the epicenter, a, b & D are constants used to make the M < sub > t </ sub > scale match as closely as possible with the moment magnitude scale.

This scale was based on the ground motion measured by a particular type of seismometer at a distance of from the earthquake's epicenter.

It has endured a number of earthquakes: that of 1985, which measured 8. 1 on the Richter scale ; that of 1995, 7. 7 ; that of 2003, 7. 6 ; that of April 13, 2007, 6. 3 ; that of April 27, 2009, 5. 9 with epicenter in the state of Guerrero ; and that of May 22, 2009 at 14: 24, 5. 7 with a duration of 40 seconds and epicenter in Tehuacán in the state of Puebla ; that of March 20, 2012, 7. 8.

On November 23 at 12: 36 p. m. OST ( 2: 36 p. m. GMT ), measured a violent earthquake ( at 7 / 8 on the Wood-Neumann scale ) with the epicenter near Santo Antonio on Pico.

* 1998 — The 1998 Azores earthquake on July 9 shook Faial, Pico and São Jorge at 5: 19 a. m. ODT ( 6: 19 a. m. GMT ) measured 5. 6 on the Richter scale with and epicenter NNE of the island of Faial caused damage to the parishes of Riberinha, Pedro Miguel, Salão and Cedros and more damage in Castelo Branco ( mainly Lombega ), Flamengos and Praia do Almoxarife on Faial, it also caused damage in parts of Pico Island and the far western part of the São Jorge Island.

On July 21, 1952, an earthquake with the epicenter about south of Bakersfield, measuring 7. 3 on the Richter scale killed 12 people.

On October 1, 1987, at 7: 42 a. m., the Whittier Narrows earthquake struck, the epicenter six miles ( 10 km ) north by northwest of Whittier.

The 7. 1 magnitude Hector Mine earthquake on October 16, 1999 had an epicenter north of town.

Nisene Marks is popular with hikers and mountain bikers, and also contains the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ( 7. 1 on the Richter scale ).

The last nearby earthquake had its epicenter in Newry, South Carolina, and occurred at 7: 42 am EDT on May 19, 1971.

For example, in the magnitude 7. 9, 2002 Denali earthquake in Alaska, the epicenter was at the western end of the rupture, but the greatest damage occurred about 330 km away at the eastern end of the rupture zone.

On October 17, 1989, the Mw 6. 9 ( Ms 7. 1 < ref > M < sub > s </ sub > is a measure of the intensity of surface shaking, the surface wave magnitude .</ ref >) Loma Prieta (" World Series ") earthquake ( epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains northwest of San Juan Bautista, California ) caused significant damage in the San Francisco Bay area of California.

On July 23, 2010 at 22: 08, a 7. 3 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter of Moro Gulf hit Mindanao.

Near the 1995 new year, Misawa experienced two earthquakes — 7. 5 and 7. 9 on the Richter scale at the epicenter off the coast of Hachinohe.

Waves as high as 10. 7 metres ( 35 ft ) were recorded from the epicenter, and as far away as Japan and the Philippines.

* December 16, 1811, 0815 UTC ( 2: 15 a. m .); ( M ~ 7. 2 – 8. 1 ) epicenter in northeast Arkansas.

* December 16, 1811, 1415 UTC ( 8: 15 a. m .); ( M ~ 7. 2 – 8. 1 ) epicenter in northeast Arkansas.

* January 23, 1812, 1500 UTC ( 9 a. m .); ( M ~ 7. 0 – 7. 8 ) epicenter in the Missouri Bootheel.

* February 7, 1812, 0945 UTC ( 4: 45 a. m .); ( M ~ 7. 4 – 8. 0 ) epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri.

On 12 June 2010, at 19: 26: 50 UT ( Sunday, June 13, 2010 01: 26: 50 AM at epicenter ), a strong earthquake, magnitude 7. 7, struck 153 km ( 95 mi ) west of Mohean, Nicobar Islands ( epicenter: 7. 748N, 91. 938E ).