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A moment magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Jajarkot District, Karnali Province, Nepal, at 23:47 NPT (18:02 UTC) on 3 November 2023, killing 153 people and injuring at least 375. The earthquake was widely felt in western Nepal and northern India, and is the deadliest to strike the country since 2015.
On 19 September 2022, a moment magnitude 7.6-7.7 earthquake struck between the Mexican states of Michoacán and Colima at 13:05:06 local time. [1] [4] The earthquake had a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 mi), [1] resulting in a maximum intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. The USGS reported the epicentre was 35 km (22 mi ...
The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (女川原子力発電所, Onagawa (pronunciation ⓘ) genshiryoku hatsudensho, Onagawa NPP) is a nuclear power plant located on a 1,730,000 m 2 (432 acres) site in Onagawa in the Oshika District and Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is managed by the Tohoku Electric Power Company. It was the most ...
5.0–5.9. 731. 4.0–4.9. 6,447. ← 2023. This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in significant damage and/or casualties. All dates are listed according to UTC time. The maximum intensities are based on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
The biggest one recently was stronger than another big earthquake that happened in May 2023. This was the largest earthquake in the Sea of Japan since 1983. Japan is located where four big pieces of the Earth's crust (Pacific, Philippine Sea, Okhotsk, and Amurian Plates) meet. This causes a lot of earthquakes.
On November 22, 2014, at 22:08 local time ( UTC +9 ), an earthquake struck southeast of Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. It had a magnitude of 6.2 Mw according to the United States Geological Survey, with a maximum intensity assigned IX ( Violent) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, it is recorded ...
In April 2023, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake 21 km (13 mi) southeast of the March 2024 event killed eight people. Earthquake. The earthquake occurred at 06:22:04 PGT (20:22 UTC), with an epicenter located 4 km (2.5 mi) north of Chambri Lake, or 36 km (22 mi) east-northeast of Ambunti. It also had a hypocenter 41.5 km (25.8 mi) deep.
