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Mexico City Earthquake GEER Report Ver. 1

An intraslab subduction zone earthquake of moment magnitude 7.1 occurred on September 19, 2017 approximately 60 km southwest of Puebla, Mexico, and 120 km southeast of Mexico City, Mexico. This ear...

Kaikoura Earthquake responsible for “slow motion” quakes in New Zealand

The 7.8 magnitude quake that hit New Zealand's South Island in November 2016, is responsible for a series of large slow slip events, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Tex...

Mexico gets hit again by deadly M7.1 earthquake (video)

The earthquake struck central Mexico on Tuesday, September 19, killing at least 250 people. The 7.1- magnitude quake occurred around 1pm local time last Tuesday, causing a heavy, prolonged shaking...

Powerful 8.1 magnitude earthquake hits off Mexico

The magnitude 8.1 quake struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico on September 7, 2017 at 11:49 local time (September 8 at 04:49 UTC), leaving more than 90 people dead and another 200 injured. The earthquake...

Earthquake on Italian holiday island leaves at least two people dead and 39 injured

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Italian holiday island of Ischia at 8:57 p.m. local time on Monday night. Up to now, two women have been reported dead, one of whom having been hit by falling masonr...

Deadly M6.6 earthquake hits Kos Island, Greece

Two people have been killed and about 200 have been injured due to the earthquake that occurred near the island of Kos, Greece on Friday, 21 July, 2017. The magnitude Μ6.6 earthquake struck at 1:31...

Tsunami waves leave 4 people dead in Greenland (video)

A very large landslide or the shallow M4.0 earthquake registered by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), 28 km north of the village of Nuugaatsiaq, in the western coast of Greenland,...

New early warning system could have saved lives during the 2011 Japan tsunami

Simulations assessing how the system would have responded to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake show that a tsunami alarm would have been raised in 7 minutes or less, thus might had saved many of the 22,000 k...

From where will the next big earthquake hit the city of Istanbul?

The 15-million city is situated very close to the so-called North Anatolian Fault Zone which runs just outside the city, below the Marmara Sea. Scientists appreciate that an earthquake of magnitude M7...

Scientists in search for hints about Caribbean earthquakes

Led by Jenny Collier of Imperial College London, a team of scientists will be taking measurements from the seafloor of the Caribbean islands, trying to gain some early warning clues about the region's...

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