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CCTV News
| Apr 26, 2013
Chinese citizens have been intensely following rescue and recovery efforts in China's Sichuan Province, after the region suffered its second major earthquake since 2008. China's CCTV presents the latest updates on the damage, while LinkAsia's Jing...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 22, 2013
Earthquake victims in remote villages in southwest China say they have been forgotten by the government and are desperate for aid. They are afraid that aftershocks will destroy what little they have left. Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports fro...
Euronews
| Apr 21, 2013
Chinese state media has shown images of the country's Premier, Li Keqiang, visiting the victims of the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck the mostly rural and mountainous region to the southwest of t...
Euronews
| Apr 20, 2013
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck China's southwestern Sichuan province. Reports suggest that scores of people have been killed and over 2,000 injured. The quake was felt in neighboring provinces causing people to flee buildings in search of s...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 16, 2013
A massive 7.8 earthquake has struck a sparsely populated area in southeastern Iran near the border with Pakistan, reportedly killing at least 40 people in Iran and some five in Pakistan, though the toll is expected to climb. The epicenter of the q...
Press TV
| Apr 9, 2013
A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale has struck the town of Kaki near the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, killing at least 32 people and leaving more than 850 injured. But Iran's Press TV reports that the Bushehr nuclear facili...
Associated Press
| Mar 27, 2013
A strong earthquake struck rural central Taiwan today, rattling residents, swaying buildings, sending school children scurrying for cover and injuring at least 20 people. The quake was felt thoughout the island, and damage reports are still coming...
LinkAsia
| Mar 11, 2013
Japanese horror film director Hideo Nakata is best known for films in which characters are killed by an unseen force or haunted by a creepy presence. His newest film takes a different form however. LinkAsia's Nathalie Stucky reports on Nakata's la...
Euronews
| Feb 11, 2013
North Korea has confirmed it conducted its third nuclear test, underground, in defiance of international warnings, and triggered a 4.9 magnitude tremor, detected around the world. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the action "dep...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 7, 2012
A 7.3 magnitude quake struck off northeast Japan Friday, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo for more than a minute and triggering a tsunami alert in Fukushima and other areas devastated by last year's disaster. Two people were badly injured bu...
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— Sep 16, 2011 at 08:19 pm
...the surface, the USGS said. The USGS said the quake hit some 67 miles southeast of Hachinohe, in Honshu, Japan, and about 356 miles northeast o...
— Jun 5, 2012 at 09:01 pm
...Tokyo It had reported a depth of almost 11 miles (CNN) -- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Japan early Wednesday, the ...
— Sep 12, 2012 at 12:03 am
...other. When they move, they cause tremors in the crust, known as an earthquake. Earthquake magnitude is measured by the Richter scale, based on ...
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time.
Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. These two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible or weak and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over larger areas, depending on their depth. The largest earthquakes in historic times have been of magnitude slightly over 9, although there is no limit to the possible magnitude. The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or larger was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. The shallower an earthquake, the more damage to structures it causes, all else being equal.
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