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Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Taiwan

The M6.4 quake hit Hualien County of eastern Taiwan at 15:50 UTC (23:50 local time) on Tuesday February 6, 2017. According to the USGS, the epicenter was located 21.4 km (13.3 miles) NNE of Hualien...

Strong earthquake hits southeastern Iran, no casualties reported

The magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Iran on Friday, December 1, injuring 42 people and destroying several homes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 36 miles (58 km) nor...

Gravity signals could rapidly quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes

After an earthquake, there is a disturbance in the field of gravity that happens almost instantaneously. In a new study, scientists observe and model the gravity-related signals stemming from this dis...

Iran-Iraq border earthquake is the deadliest of 2017 (video)

The death toll from the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit Iran's mountainous border with Iraq on Sunday, has now been raised to at least 530 people, according to Iranian officials. The quake hit at...

Fifty simulations show how a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out

A University of Washington research project simulates 50 ways a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone could shake out in the northwest of the United States. The Cascadia Subducti...

New study links Raton Basin earthquakes to oil and gas wastewater injections

A series of earthquakes between 2008 and 2010 in the Raton Basin - along the southern Colorado and northern New Mexico border – was likely due to fluids pumped underground during oil and gas wastewate...

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...

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