Although lower on the moment magnitude scale than the quake of September 2010, the intensity and violence of the ground shaking was measured to be VIII on the MMI and among the strongest ever recorded globally in an urban area due to the shallowness and proximity of the epicentre.

Robinson could make Senators and everyone in his presence quake by the burning fire of his eyes, the baring of his teeth as he ground out the words, and the clenching of his mighty fists as he beat on the desk before him.

The ground on Heimaey started to quake and clefts began to form.

After the quake is over, Sam and most of his employees find themselves trapped on the upper floors of their 30-story skyscraper, as the elevators have crashed to the ground.

The quake destroyed the upper part of the original auditorium and caused the ground near it to sink several feet.

These include the length of the fault, magnitude, the depth of the quake, the distance from the epicentre, the duration ( length of the shake cycle ), and the geology of the ground ( subsurface ).

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.

This tsunami struck just three to five minutes after the quake, and most victims were caught while fleeing for higher ground and secure places after surviving the earthquake.

While shopping in Oedo Town, Goemon and Ebisumaru feel the ground quake as a peach-shaped flying object sails overhead.

The initial quake was followed by a series of aftershocks along the arc of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The quake caused damage to a number of hotels commercial premises along Burt street in Boulder and it was reported that the underpass also on Burt street collapsed, although this was later found to be false.

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.

Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quake lasted 10 – 15 seconds and measured 6. 9 both on the moment magnitude scale ( surface-wave magnitude 7. 1 ) and on the open-ended Richter Scale.

Until the restoration following the quake of 1894, the grand Bazaar had no shops as we know them in the western world: along both sides of the roads merchants sat on wooden divans in front of their shelves.

This quake was important in that, along with the 1964 Alaska earthquake, it was the first time engineers really began studying liquefaction in detail.

The 1717 quake appears to have involved a rupture along nearly 400 km of the southern two thirds of the fault.

The quake, along two faults south of the Burin Peninsula, triggered a large submarine landslide ().

He was already busy designing numerous buildings along the California coast and Northern California during 1905, and the earthquake in the Bay Area increased his work load, as he designed and built replacements for many buildings damaged by the quake and the fires in the aftermath.

The quake occurred along a previously unknown fault in the Genkai Sea, North of Fukuoka city, and the residents of Genkai island were forced to evacuate as houses collapsed and landslides occurred in places.

The destructive 1994 quake in Northridge, California was caused by a previously-undiscovered blind thrust fault.

Theory suggests that a nuclear explosion could trigger fault rupture and cause a major quake at distances within a few tens of kilometers from the shot point.

This is in a region of the locked fault below the Parkfield episodes, last creating a 8. 0 magnitude quake at Fort Tejon in 1857.

He identified the impact of near-fault effects of earthquakes as well as the " fling " where the fault slips during an earthquake which has a strong impact on structures near the quake.

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.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

The surprise quake alarmed residents in the dark hours of the morning and was felt across several states, but caused no injuries and only minor damage even in the town.

In a report filed in November 2008, the U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in " the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States ," further predicting " widespread and catastrophic " damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7. 7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.

In a report filed in November 2008, The U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in " the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States ," further predicting " widespread and catastrophic " damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7. 7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.

Its focus was 23 km beneath the bank, and the quake was felt in countries all around the North Sea, causing damage across eastern England.

A request, dated January 13, 1812, by William Clark ( famous for his exploration of the American West with Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery from 1803 to 1805 ), then the governor of the Louisiana Territory ( the territory was renamed the Missouri Territory soon after the quake to eliminate confusion with the new state of Louisiana ), asked for federal relief for the " inhabitants of New Madrid County.

Those new buildings might well remain standing in the coming Hayward quake, he said, " but if the streets there settle by a couple of feet, those buildings will be isolated.

In the aftermath of the quake, a new plant was built on Commercial Street.

The U. S. Geological Survey and the State of California therefore established one of the " most sophisticated and densest nets of monitoring instruments in the world ", in part to identify any precursors when the quake came.

The earthquake caused the collapse of the freeway connector of State Route 14 ( the Antelope Valley Freeway ) onto Interstate 5 ( the Golden State Freeway ) in the Newhall Pass, forcing all traffic to use the parallel 2 lane truck bypass that was unaffected by the quake.

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

Data gathered from people who have experienced the quake are used to determine an intensity value for their location.

Others do not grasp their peril soon enough and either stay in their homes or start for town too late ; two thirds of the colonists perish, either from the quake or by freezing.

The largest earthquake recorded for Connecticut was an intensity VII quake on May 16, 1791 near Moodus.

The quake was the first seismic event on this site, and the town was not included in any seismic map for preventive protection purposes.

In 1887, for example, a severe earthquake destroyed the city of Verny ( present-day Almaty ), and in December 1988 a massive quake demolished the Armenian city of Spitak and large sections of Kirovakan and Leninakan.

The quake forced the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to shut down for 10 months as of May 2008.

The town suffered significant damage in an earthquake on May 28, 1995, and was used as pivotal base for rescuers deployed to Neftegorsk, pulverized by the quake.

The Gloucestor Street building remained as Christchurch based newsroom for TVNZ until the building was badly damaged in the quake, and has since been demolished.

Following the quake, many buildings and structures in the area were closed temporarily for inspection.

In case of there is a possibility of tsunami after the earthquake, the JMA issues Tsunami Warning or Advisory for each region in Japan that contain estimated tsunami heights and arrival times within around 2 – 3 minutes of the quake.

The quake cancelled classes for days and UCSC students were left with little to do for distraction.

A fundraiser was organized to raise money for the victims of the quake where Colonel Juan Perón met his eventual wife and political companion Eva Duarte.

People experiencing a mind quake are always taken in for medical care.

He was noted for attempting to explain the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as a scientific — rather than religious — phenomenon, and his application of mathematical computations to earthquake activity following the great quake has formed the basis of the claim made on his behalf as the founder of the science of seismology.

The intensity of an earthquake is not totally determined by its magnitude, and varies from place to place ; for example, a quake may be described as " shindo 4 in Tokyo, shindo 3 in Yokohama, shindo 2 in Shizuoka ".

The lawsuit was directed against the Thai government, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the French hotel group Sofitel, blaming them for insufficient quake and tsunami warnings.

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.

Local news readers reported news about the quake for all of New Zealand.

A rather amusing piece of trivia that happened was, a few months before the quake, India had shot down a Pakistani fighter aircraft for alleged violation of its air-space.