BEIJING, March 28 (UPI) -- China's seismological network says the country's northern region was rattled by a 4.2-magnitude earthquake Saturday.
SHANGHAI, China--The death toll from a 7.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked western China yesterday rose to ... that 11,921 people had died so far in the country's worst earthquake in three decades. [ ...
... likely to be the one that gave rise to the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that has now caused 22,069 ... whose faults chatter continuously with small earthquakes, faults in the Longmen Shan, remnants perhaps ...
... Duzce, Turkey, followed a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Izmit, Turkey. In 2004, an 8 ... Barbara, and Kirby, used a model to see how the Sichuan earthquake, which took place on the Beichuan fault, affected ...
Southern California was hit by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake late Tuesday morning, swaying buildings in downtown Los Angeles for several seconds.
... This is what would happen during a major earthquake along the Mississippi River."
Researchers don’t ... confident, based on his tests, that a 6.5 magnitude earthquake or bigger would cause solid surfaces ...
... tested on a shake table in the United States. The earthquake tests were conducted at the UC San Diego ... what happened during the 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Northridge, Calif. in 1994, with the collapse ...
... journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"One great earthquake seems to make the next one more likely, not less ... adjacent faults."
In 1999, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, was followed four ...
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico's Chiapas state Thursday, sparking panic in the town of Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, local civil protection officials and US scientists said.
... brick infill walls came to a halt after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake – which was a 6.4 ... exist today. Although only moderate in terms of magnitude, this earthquake caused serious damage to unreinforced ...
The 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the Los Angeles community of Northridge at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, killed 57 people, injured more than 5,000, and caused an estimated $20 ...
A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake has shaken the South Pacific nation of Tonga and sending people in low lying areas of Fiji fleeing for higher ground after a tsunami warning, according to officials.
... active and occasionally cause moderate, low magnitude earthquakes (measuring less than 5 on the Richter ... what role these faults have played in causing earthquakes during the Quaternary (from 1.8 million ...
Aftershocks always occur, Elnashai says, and they may continue for a few days after such a relatively low-magnitude earthquake. Usually, with some exceptions, aftershocks are one magnitude unit below ...
A low-cost, earthquake-resistant building design recently survived a very serious test – a simulated high-magnitude earthquake on a half-sized model.
