The temblor, which hit on Monday at about 9 p.m.
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The temblor caused extensive damage and triggered a widespread blackout.
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Most people slept through the temblor and no damage was reported.
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Mexico's national seismological service originally registered the temblor at 5.7 magnitude.
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But a closer, shallower temblor could cause 100 times more devastation.
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The temblor was revised down from an initial reading of 6.5.
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The larger temblor was initially reported by the agency as magnitude 5.8.
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The temblor, initially reported as a magnitude 6.0, struck at 8:30 a.m.
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It came a day after a magnitude-6.4 temblor in the same area.
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The temblor was recorded at a depth of nearly 5.5 miles (8.7 kilometers).
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She was on the sixth floor of her building when the temblor commenced.
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The temblor wasn't the only quake in China in the past 24 hours.
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"This time there was no alert, we only felt the temblor," she wrote.
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But they cautioned it's impossible to say whether that movement portends a temblor.
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At first, the temblor felt like other strong quakes that had hit the area.
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In Japan, earthquake warnings appear on all TV broadcasts when a temblor is detected.
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Wednesday's earthquake is Indonesia's second major temblor this year and the most severe yet.
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The temblor in Prague (pronounced "PRAY-geh") was then the strongest in Oklahoma's history.
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The now-103-magnitude temblor is the largest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma, USGS said.
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The first earthquake in this set was the state's first temblor in five years.
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At least 245 people have been killed after a powerful temblor struck the capital.
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The temblor was followed by at least 61 aftershocks, USGS Seismologist Rafael Abreu said.
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The last time an enormous temblor on the fault struck Southern California was in 1857.
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The destructive temblor caused a bridge, an airport tower and dozens of buildings to collapse.
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The new quake appeared to be unrelated to the magnitude 8.1 temblor that hit Sept.
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The nearby temblor hit before the school's early warning alarm bells could even start blaring.
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The temblor also left thousands more homeless, as it destroyed buildings and knocked out power.
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A house in the town of Guánica recently collapsed after a fresh 3.8 magnitude temblor.
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Images from the capital appeared to capture buildings and other structures swaying violently from the temblor.
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The largest recorded temblor in history was also in Chile, a 9.5-magnitude quake in 1960.
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So far, authorities had not received reports of any serious injuries from the temblor, McLaughlin said.
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Last month's temblor was atypical, because the epicenter was just 0003 miles south of the city.
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ET. That temblor occurred at a depth of 8.9 kilometers, according to initial readings by USGS.
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Several aftershocks followed, including a magnitude 423 temblor striking south of Indios at 7:18 a.m.
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The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said that the temblor, which struck after 1703 a.m.
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The biggest earthquake in recent memory was a 7.3 temblor that killed 2,400 people in 1999.
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The magnitude-7.8 temblor caused an avalanche, which killed 18 people at the Everest base camp.
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A 7.0 temblor shook the island city of Kumamoto on April 15, killing at least two people.
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The temblor came just hours after U.S. Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovall said another eruption was imminent.
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It did, however, provide a useful test of systems established since the 2011 temblor, according to Fryer.
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Measurements put that biggest temblor just shy of being the worst to hit California in two decades.
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This takes the bite out of an alert, should the next quake be a devastating, historic temblor.
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There were no reports of damage or injuries in Friday's temblor, which occurred at 6:11 a.m.
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A major coal-fired power station was also damaged in the temblor that shut down the grid.
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Just like the deadly earthquake earlier this month, Tuesday's temblor caused heavy and prolonged rattling in the capital.
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That quake came just two months after a 5.8 magnitude temblor, the strongest on record for the state.
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Tuesday's temblor came on the anniversary of the 1985 quake that killed thousands and still resonates in Mexico.
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The broken gas lines could create thousands of fires that could overwhelm emergency responders after a major temblor.
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Such forecasts probably couldn't be used, say, to coordinate a mass evacuation on the eve of a temblor.
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Portions of the fault have ruptured several times, however, including a magnitude 6.4 temblor in Long Beach, Calif.
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The temblor was also felt in the northwest and in many towns and cities in eastern Punjab province.
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Aftershocks terrified villagers for five days after the initial temblor and only started subsiding on Saturday, multiple sources said.
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The temblor struck the Alaska Peninsula more than 400 miles (649 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, according to the USGS.
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In February, a 5.1-magnitude temblor shook the area around Fairview, Oklahoma - the third strongest recorded in the state.
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A magnitude-2185 temblor hit shortly after about halfway between Wellington and Christchurch, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
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It also hit just hours after emergency drills marked the anniversary of a temblor that killed thousands in 215.
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The magnitude 6.9 temblor that jolted the island was one of more than 2.03 earthquakes in just 24 hours.
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That's about 30 times as much energy and 10 times the motion of a magnitude 8.0-temblor, Vidale noted.
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The volcano erupted again Thursday after hundreds of earthquakes rattled the area this week, including a magnitude 5.0 temblor.
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Those reports had riveted Mexicans pulling for an uplifting rescue when the temblor damaged the Enrique Rebsamen school Tuesday.
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Their 10-year-old son, Sebastián, has not wanted to eat or sleep or speak much since the temblor.
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Seismologists in Chile also shared on social media that their sensors also detected an artificial temblor, according to USA Today.
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The magnitude-7.5 temblor was centered north of Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi, and struck at 6:03 p.m.
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A series of smaller quakes, including one magnitude 5.7, struck the same region in the minutes following the larger temblor.
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Earlier this week, the same spot, which is about 70 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, saw a magnitude 3.2 temblor.
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The first temblor was the second-strongest quake on record in east Tennessee, according to the local National Weather Service.
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The magnitude 6.8 temblor hit Chauk, along the Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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The quake occurred in the early evening after sunset and was the second powerful temblor on Lombok in a week.
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The 7.0-magnitude temblor on the island of Lombok claimed at least 98 lives and injured an additional 236 people.
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More than 300 people have been reported killed in Tuesday's quake; nearly 100 reportedly died in the September 8 temblor.
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The magnitude 7.1 temblor started at around 103:15PM — cracking highways, collapsing buildings, and, so far, killing more than 50 people.
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Earlier this month, the state saw a magnitude-5.8 earthquake near the town of Pawnee, the largest recorded temblor in Oklahoma.
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Shirzaei said they estimated the pore pressure changes were strong enough to cause earthquakes, including the 2012 temblor near Timpson, Texas.
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A government response seen as lacking in the disastrous 1985 temblor severely damaged the credibility of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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But should the moon's gravitational pull tug at a fault that is dangerously close to rupture, a temblor is not impossible.
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Earthquakes Quakes and California go hand in hand, and the state's first big temblor came four days into the new year.
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On 3/11, Sato had staggered through the temblor down two flights of stairs at Kesennuma city hall to his office.
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The temblor reminded many of the magnitude 7.3 Hanshin-Kobe quake in 1995 that killed more than 6,000 people in the region.
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The temblor was initially reported to have been a much more powerful magnitude 6.3, but the USGS revised down its initial assessment.
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So far, more than 50 people have been rescued from rubble after the temblor, President Enrique Peña Nieto said in televised remarks.
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The temblor on Sunday also caused fresh damage to the towns destroyed by a quake that killed nearly 300 people in August.
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It struck less than two weeks after an 8.1-magnitude temblor in the south of the country, which killed at least 19443.
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The temblor, initially reported as a magnitude 19993, was very shallow, only 6.2 miles (10 km) below the seabed, the USGS said.
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Turkey's AFAD said the temblor had a magnitude of 6.3, while local authorities said the quake was felt across the Aegean coast.
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And it was 299 times bigger Not only was Friday's earthquake 25 times stronger than Thursday's temblor, it was also five times bigger.
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The temblor was centered near Ridgecrest, west of the Mojave Desert, but was felt as far away as Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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It's the deadliest earthquake to hit the nation since March 1987 when a 7.2-magnitude temblor killed 1,000 people, according to the USGS.
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Poland&aposs State Mining Authority said the temblor had a magnitude of 3.4, while the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre pegged it at 4.3.
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With a preliminary magnitude of 216, it was the strongest earthquake since a 19083 temblor near Naples killed some 21908,280 people on Nov.
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There have been reports of housing damage, with state media showing properties flattened by the temblor, but no tsunami warning has been issued.
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The temblor damaged power infrastructure and also led to the closure of the Komo jungle airfield, making access to the remote facility difficult.
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Many experienced the massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Friday, just a little over a day after a 63 magnitude temblor shook Southern California.
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Researchers, however, have come to believe that an 8.0 to 9.0 magnitude temblor has shaken Oregon and Washington every 230 years or so.
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In the days following that temblor, the Nikkei tumbled 16 percent while the yen strengthened more than 7 percent against the U.S. dollar.
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So far Oklahoma's biggest earthquake was a 2000 magnitude temblor in Prague in 20143 that buckled road pavement and damaged dozens of homes.
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A third temblor, a 230 magnitude, hit a couple of miles south of the epicenter of the first two quakes around 2000 a.
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Cacelin noted there was no 30-second warning before the temblor to give them time to gather their composure and listen for instructions.
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Seismologists have long warned that the rise in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma could presage a temblor that could cause extensive damage.
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The last time it breached, in January 1700, it begot a magnitude 9 temblor and a tsunami that reached the coast of Japan.
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In LA the ground rolled In Los Angeles, the main temblor was felt as a long, rolling quake, and buildings rocked back and forth.
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Most of the rubble has at this point been cleared from 2333 buildings that collapsed in the temblor, but bodies continue to be unearthed.
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The U.S. Geological Survey measured the temblor at 6.4 and said it was centered at sea about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of Katsuura.
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The USGS said the temblor was about 24 miles (39 kilometers) from Mutata, a town of about 4,800 people Developing story - more to come
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For Jeff Yang, a transplant to California who was camping with his son in Ventura County during the Ridgecrest temblor, this was something new.
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Friday was the second-biggest since a 5.7 temblor hit minutes after the main quake, said Gavin Hayes, a research geophysicist with the USGS.
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A buzzing phone alert warning for a weak or non-existent quake could confuse people, and render them ill-prepared for future temblor alerts.
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The temblor also stranded tourists on Lombok and the popular Giili Islands to its west, famous for its white sand beaches and clear waters.
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The city has repeatedly strengthened its building codes, and updated rules reached Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera's desk the day before the most recent temblor.
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Vrissa, on the south side of the island, bore the brunt of the temblor, with more than 40 houses destroyed and 40 badly damaged.
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After the prototype was built, 0003 chargers were manufactured, priced at 2,500 rupees (about $24), and delivered to those most affected by the temblor.
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" He said that the temblor was concentrated in an area where the ground was less consolidated and more fragile, "which makes buildings more vulnerable.
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The 8.1-magnitude temblor struck off the coast of the state of Chiapas, at a depth of about 20 miles, the US Geological Survey said.
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There could be a high-magnitude temblor while you're reading this very article, but urban officials—let alone residents—seem oblivious to the potential threat.
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The quake was centered about 17 kilometers (10 miles) east of Christchurch, which suffered a catastrophic temblor in 2011 that killed at least 185 people.
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That temblor was felt in Quito, as well as in parts of Colombia and Peru, and it caused ruin in Ecuador's provinces on the coast.
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Those quakes — a 6.4-magnitude temblor on July 4, followed by a 7.1-magnitude quake the next day — originated along two other fault lines nearby.
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This is the state's most powerful quake since 1992, when a magnitude 5.9 temblor struck the St. George area, Utah's Division of Emergency Management said.
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She shared the title of features editor of her high school newspaper with Leland Hickman, who later became a poet and publisher of Temblor magazine.
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The shallow temblor, which struck at a depth of just 10 kilometers, did not trigger a tsunami warning, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
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The quake, the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in over eight decades, was stronger than a 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City.
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In the years to come, officials hope to expand that number to millions, potentially saving scores of lives in temblor-prone cities along the West Coast.
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The earthquake is the deadliest to hit Ecuador since March 43 when 1,000 people died in a 7.2-magnitude temblor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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When Thursday's temblor struck, more than 12,700 people from nearly 60 villages were in evacuation centers, having been forced from their homes in the Tuesday quake.
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The Saturday quake is the deadliest to hit the nation since March 1987 when a 7.2-magnitude temblor killed 1,000 people, according to the USGS. 5.
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A July 29 quake killed 16 people and damaged hundreds of houses, some of which collapsed in Sunday evening&aposs magnitude 7.0 temblor, killing those inside.
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President Enrique Peña Nieto said the temblor -- felt by about 403 million people across the country -- was the strongest earthquake Mexico has experienced in 240 years.
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Friday and was centered 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Ridgecrest, the same area of the desert where a 6.4-magnitude temblor hit just a day earlier.
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California has several massive faults that could unleash a powerful 8.03-magitude quake, while Washington state is at risk of an even larger 28.0-magnitude temblor.
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When a deadly temblor hits — as one did on Wednesday — the country's emergency response systems kick into gear, helping to rescue the injured and sustain survivors.
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Quake alarms sounded in Mexico City as a new quake struck, prompting people with fresh memories of this week's devastating temblor to flee homes and hotels.
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The 21985 magnitude quake off the southern coast late Thursday was stronger than a devastating 2230 temblor that flattened swathes of Mexico City and killed thousands.
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Bay Area Rapid Transit trains temporarily moved at a reduced speed after the temblor, leading to delays of about 10 minutes, the transit system's Twitter account said.
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The powerful temblor, which was followed by two smaller earthquakes and 60 aftershocks, hit the Lombok island, with the eastern part of the island sustaining more damage.
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The 8.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Chiapas on Thursday was stronger than a devastating 1985 temblor that flattened swathes of Mexico City and killed thousands.
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Detonated around 1,500 feet below ground, according to researchers, it triggered a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, a strong class of temblor that causes violent shaking near the epicenter.
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Friday was the second-biggest event since a magnitude-5.7 temblor hit minutes after the main quake, according to Gavin Hayes, a research geophysicist with the USGS.
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Roughly an hour before the Ocotillo Wells temblor, a 4.5 magnitude quake hit in the Pacific Ocean, 56 miles west of the Northern California town of Ferndale.
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The temblor occurred on a previously unknown fault and killed nearly 60 people, injured thousands and caused an estimated $49 billion in damage to businesses and homes.
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One thing I've noticed: Earthquake protection talk becomes front-burner in the first few weeks after a noticeable temblor, but it's not long before people just forget.
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Mexico's president said the quake was the biggest to strike the country in 100 years, larger even than a huge temblor that struck in 1985, killing thousands.
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Residents were still recovering from a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in July when a 6.9 temblor was reported in August.
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In earthquake country, the last thing you want when a temblor hits is for your suspended Georges de La Tour masterpiece to start slapping against the wall.
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President Rodrigo Duterte, a former mayor of Davao, was in the city on Thursday when the latest temblor struck, said Senator Bong Go, an aide to Mr. Duterte.
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The last major destructive temblor to strike Southern California was the 6.7 magnitude Northridge quake in 1994, which was centered in a highly populated area of Los Angeles.
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Centuries-old, unreinforced buildings and an intense, shallow quake made for extensive damage, comparable to a 2009 temblor near the town of L'Aquila that killed nearly 300 people.
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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A earthquake shook buildings in El Salvador on Monday evening, authorities said, but the temblor struck offshore and there were no immediate reports of damages.
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But unassuming Californians can now be alerted that a significant temblor has hit and it's time to promptly "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" before their world starts shaking.
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The temblor was felt as far away as the capital, Taipei, about 120 kilometers (74 miles) to the north, according to reports sent to the US Geological Survey.
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The Temblor Range, a famous spot for wildflower viewing that's part of the Carrizo Plain, is now carpeted in blue, purple, orange and yellow flowers and vibrant green foliage.
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A volcanic eruption can cause tremors, while a large temblor can rattle a magma chamber underneath a volcano, causing towers of ash and rivers of lava to gush forth.
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That means that the next temblor to shake the Bay's 7 million or so residents could be much stronger — and much more destructive — than seismologists anticipated, new research shows.
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The temblor rattled the country's capital, Mexico City, and came exactly 32 years after a devastating quake killed an estimated 9,500 people in and around the city in 1985.
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Increased seismic activity at the summit coincided with a magnitude 6.9 temblor beneath the volcano's southern flank on May 4, the largest on the island in over four decades.
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The quake on Tuesday, centered near Durres, on the Adriatic coast, came just two months after a temblor in the same area injured dozens and damaged hundreds of homes.
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Cada aumento de precio, temblor de los mercados o anuncio impositivo, cada protesta social y evidencia de la pobreza creciente, nos remite de alguna forma al "corralito" de 2001.
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The island has been rocked by a series of quakes in recent days, including a 5.8-magnitude temblor on Monday that damaged a few homes on the southern coast.
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The astonished conductor dropped off as it went over, and at the sight of the falling chimneys and breaking windows of the station, he understood that it was the Temblor.
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Breeden said she had never felt a quake "like this long rolling" temblor, adding she was driving in her car when it happened and immediately pulled up her emergency brake.
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As cities affected by the temblor rebuild, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón—the man behind Gravity and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban—has made a commitment to help them.
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The pipeline was engineered for earthquakes and survived unscathed in a far larger temblor, the magnitude 7.9 quake of November 2002 on the Denali Fault, which passes under the pipeline.
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Some were positing that the Mexican government must have known the temblor was coming, and others speculated that North Korea was involved, said Antonio Fonseca, 66, a local history expert.
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LONDON — Two earthquakes shook western Ecuador on Wednesday, one month after the worst temblor to hit the country in decades killed more than 650 people and injured more than 16,600.
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But they now think the magnitude 6.4 temblor was a foreshock (a seismic precursor) to the magnitude 7.1 event — which was roughly 10 times bigger than the Independence Day quake.
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The temblor was the second major one to hit the country in less than two weeks, following an 2212 magnitude earthquake farther south on September 8, killing nearly 100 people.
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The temblor was the second major one to hit the country in less than two weeks, following a magnitude-8.1 earthquake farther south on September 8, killing nearly 100 people.
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"If you put a very heavy object on soil that is potentially saturated and isn't consolidated, it will move due to a loss of shear strength," earthquake site Temblor explains.
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Now, watching Michael Cohen testify before Congress, I sense a similar historic temblor, only this time it may be the No. 1-most-corrupt administration that is beginning to teeter.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for the past half-decade; this was the first significant temblor that I've experienced, and, to my friend's point, the sensation was both terrifying and uncanny.
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That includes rebuilding some 6,600 homes, along with roads, schools and health centers affected by the 7.8 magnitude temblor that killed at least 659 people, according to the latest official estimates.
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If the Cascadia were to experience a large-magnitude earthquake, the temblor and resulting tsunami could kill more than 21700,000 people and injure more than 26,000, according to one FEMA model.
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On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in the nation's history — a magnitude 9 temblor that triggered a tsunami with waves up to 133 feet high.
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For two years, historians, economists and others have pondered whether western leaders, facing a growing populist challenge, must prepare for an even greater temblor resembling the French Revolution or 2260s fascism.
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The quake, which came two weeks after another devastating temblor off the country's southern coast, was centered about 100 miles from the capital and was followed by at least 11 aftershocks.
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The largest U.S. earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude-9.2 temblor in Alaska in March 1964, causing tidal waves of more than 100 feet (30 m) high that killed 131 people.
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Thursday's 8.1 magnitude quake was the most powerful to hit Mexico in 85 years, surpassing a 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City and triggered public outcry over the government response.
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The most powerful quake to hit the Greek capital in the last 20 years came in 1999, when a temblor of magnitude 6.0 caused extensive damage and killed more than 140 people.
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At the private Colegio Enrique Rabsamen, where rescuers thought they were trying to reach the girl, the temblor caused the school to fold in on itself, sandwiching and collapsing classroom onto classroom.
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John Bellini, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said it was the strongest quake since an 8.1 temblor struck the western state of Jalisco in 1932.
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The temblor, which struck in an area on the edge of Death Valley National Park, was felt throughout Los Angeles, as far north as Fresno, and as far east as Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Some have suggested that some slippage might occur along a fault before the temblor lets loose — but USGS geophysicist Andrew Michael says it's currently impossible to measure such gradual change from the surface.
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Digging into the soil around these faults, Glenn Biasi and Kate Scharer found that big, ground-rupturing earthquakes have been a regular occurrence in the temblor-prone land over the last 21994 years.
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Matthew O'Brien, a Bay Area reader, shared a photo he took in late March facing the normally dry Soda Lake and the Temblor Range, which forms the eastern border of the Carrizo Plain.
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Still, it's unlikely that many people detected the temblor on Tuesday: Typically, earthquakes must be at least twice as forceful — 2 to 2.5 magnitude — for people to feel the vibration, Mr. Blakeman said.
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When a magnitude 7.2 temblor struck Mexico's southern region in February, an app called SkyAlert sent out warnings to Mexicans' cell phones, in some cases providing as much as 75 seconds of lead time.
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Witnesses in Bagan described a harrowing two-minute temblor in the late afternoon that shook the ancient city and alarmed tourists visiting the ancient temples, some of which date back from the 11th century.
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A powerful 7.1 magnitude quake shook the remote town of Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert on Friday evening, a day and a half after a 6.4 magnitude temblor was recorded in the same region.
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The big picture: Lucy Jones, a Caltech seismologist, said Friday's temblor was 10 times larger than Thursday morning's, and that "there's no reason to think we can't have more large earthquakes," the LA Times reports.
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The legacy of Fukushima The 2011 quake, just slightly north of Tuesday's temblor, was so severe it moved Japan's coast 8 feet and shifted the Earth's axis, ranking among the costliest natural disasters on record.
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Then a major earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska, prompting a tsunami warning that was soon called off, and hours later another strong temblor hit off the coast of Indonesia, rocking buildings in Jakarta.
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If the effects of the tremors have reminded residents of Hurricane Maria's devastation two years ago, so have the politics surrounding the recovery of the island, which experienced a magnitude-2 temblor on Tuesday morning.
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The largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States was also in Alaska, a magnitude 9.2 temblor in March 1964, causing tidal waves of more than 100 feet (30 m) high that killed 131 people.
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Firefighters managed to free Romeo from the rubble of the temblor and he was totally nonplussed by the fuss, hanging out patiently as they checked him out, shaking his fur and running off down the garden.
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"There have been some aftershocks, we've registered four already and surely there will be more considering the magnitude of the quake," he said, adding that the temblor was also felt in Argentina's Mendoza and Cordoba provinces.
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The U.S. Geological Survey says the new temblor was centered about 12 miles southeast of Matias Romero in the state of Oaxaca, which was the region most battered by a magnitude 8.1 quake on Sept. 7.
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Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said in a press conference that the quake was the biggest to strike the country in a hundred years, larger even than a huge temblor that struck in 1985, killing thousands.
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The 5.8-magnitude temblor struck in Virginia and vibrated across the Eastern Seaboard, sending New Yorkers scrambling out of buildings and into the streets of Midtown Manhattan as police officers ordered the evacuation of City Hall.
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Scientists uncovered a newly identified fault line that could unleash a magnitude-7.4 earthquake in the region, which other researchers say is already long overdue for a whopper of a temblor along the infamous San Andreas fault.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When a devastating earthquake rocked Mexico City on Tuesday, 210 years to the day after another deadly temblor, the city's traumatized inhabitants struggled to understand why disaster had struck twice on the same date.
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ANCHORAGE — The magnitude 7 earthquake that jolted Anchorage on Friday cracked buildings, damaged roads and buckled bridges, drawing swift comparisons to a temblor in 1964 that devastated the region and remains a dominant part of Alaskan history.
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Seko said the partial restart of a key coal-fired power plant damaged in the quake - which supplied about half of the island's electricity before the temblor - is not expected before the end of September at the earliest.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake on Friday in Southern California triggered reports of damage in communities in the northwest area of San Bernardino County, near where the temblor hit, the county Fire Department said on Twitter.
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Jones told reporters at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, that the 6.4 quake centered in the Mojave Desert near the town of Ridgecrest was preceded by a magnitude 4.3 temblor about a half hour earlier.
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One of the more powerful quakes to hit Alaska in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude temblor that struck beneath the ocean floor near the Aleutian Islands chain in June 2014, but it caused no injuries or major damage.
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Friday's quake was the most powerful to hit Southern California since another 7.1 temblor struck the Mojave Desert near the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base in 1999, said Lucy Jones, a seismologist for the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).
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Pasamos la noche sin poder dormir por los azotes del viento, los golpes en las ventanas, el agua que entraba sin tregua a la casa cuando se rompía una ventana, el temblor de las puertas y el silbido espantoso.
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"This is the second largest earthquake we've had since 2400, which was a very significant earthquake," Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz told reporters Saturday, referring a historic magnitude-21964 quake that was the most powerful recorded temblor in US history.
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The area of Wednesday's temblor experienced significant earthquakes in the past, including one with a magnitude of 6.3 near the town of L'Aquila in 2009 that killed at least 295 people, injured more than 1,000 and left 55,000 homeless.
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He knows about the six Italian scientists who were convicted of manslaughter in 2012 for downplaying the chances of an earthquake near the central Italian town of L'Aquila, days before the region was devastated by a magnitude 6.3 temblor.
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The extent of the damage caused by the earthquake was unclear, but it did not appear to have leveled as many buildings as a similarly strong temblor that hit the island of Lesbos, in the northern Aegean, last month.
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Even before the shockwaves of the 5.1 temblor triggered by Tuesday's test wore off, Hillary Clinton was fighting off a volley of Republican attacks, GOP presidential candidates were talking tough and Donald Trump jumped on a chance to chastise China.
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A three-foot tsunami hit the coast of Soma, 22011 miles up the coast from Tokyo, a little more than an hour after the temblor, and another 4.6-foot tsunami washed ashore at Sendai, another 40 miles north, an hour later.
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LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake on Friday in Southern California triggered reports of damage in communities in the northwest area of San Bernardino County, near where the temblor hit, the county Fire Department said on Twitter.
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The world's biggest contract chipmaker has one of its largest and latest 12-inch wafer production facilities in the city of Tainan, where a 6.4-magnitude temblor led to the collapse of a 17-storey building and at least seven deaths.
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Hesti Dimalia, 27, a local newspaper journalist, said she hid under a table in her eighth-floor newsroom in South Jakarta after the temblor struck, then ran down an emergency stairwell to the street after building security instructed everyone to evacuate.
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"It was a significant logistical problem that nobody in the court knew," James G. Connell III, a defense lawyer who had ducked under his courtroom table when the first temblor rolled through, protested to the judge the next day. Col.
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The agency said the 2.8-magnitude temblor recorded Wednesday was shallow -- only about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) deep -- and struck about 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) east of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, the only known facility of its kind in North Korea.
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Many residents found their houses reduced to rubble after the magnitude 7.0 temblor on Sunday along the island's northern coast, forcing them to erect makeshift tents in their own yards, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency.
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Roughly speaking, the epicenter was between the centers of this month's two more violent earthquakes -- the 7.1 magnitude temblor that hit Tuesday closer to the capital, and the 8.1 magnitude quake that struck September 8 off the southern Pacific coast, near Chiapas state.
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In a jolt that grabbed the attention of seismically jaded Californians, Friday's magnitude 7.1 temblor ruptured gas lines and sparked numerous fires in Ridgecrest, a remote town of fewer than 30,000 people in the Mojave Desert, about 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Los Angeles.
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The quake forced the National Basketball Association (NBA) to cancel the finish of a two Summer League games in Las Vegas while engineers checked to see if the temblor compromised the integrity of an arena on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
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After losing three-quarters of its homes and 1,100 people in the March 2011 temblor and tsunami, the city of Higashi Matsushima turned to the Japanese government's "National Resilience Program," with 3.72 trillion yen ($23 billion) in funding for this fiscal year, to rebuild.
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Search teams from Israel, Japan and the United States also have joined the efforts Last week's quake was the second major one to hit the country in less than two weeks, following a magnitude 8.1 temblor farther south on September 8, killing nearly 100 people.
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"We are important to the regional economy, so it is important to resume (full) operations soon," said Derek Nind, CEO of CentrePort Wellington, the port in the country's capital which lies about 480 km from the epicenter of magnitude-7.8 temblor that killed two people.
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Sus tres dimensiones monolíticas —una horizontal, una vertical y una que se inclina drásticamente hacia la torre ancha (aunque nunca la alcanza del todo), como si hubiesen sido abatidas por un temblor de eones— se alzan como un monumento arruinado de una civilización olvidada.
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In Alaska, residents gathered in shelters on Kodiak Island, the closest land point to the temblor, around 303 miles (250 km) southeast of Chiniak, Alaska, at a depth of 25 km - considered shallow but with broader damage - according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
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Instead of zipping relatively neatly along the fault line under San Bernardino, a multi-fault earthquake—even a less powerful one than the 1812 temblor—could jump right across a very densely populated region, causing even more damage than anything the San Andreas could produce alone.
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Detail SULAWESI INDONESIA By Derek Watkins and Bedel Saget | Source: U.S. Geological Survey ShakeMap "We expected it might cause a tsunami, just not one that big," said Jason Patton, a geophysicist who works for a consulting firm, Temblor, and teaches at Humboldt State University in California.
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Seismologists said the initial quake on Thursday, and scores of smaller ones that followed it, proved to be foreshocks to Friday's larger temblor, which now ranks as Southern California's most powerful since a 7.1 quake that struck near a U.S. Marine Corps base in the Mojave Desert in 1999.
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Seismologists said the initial quake on Thursday, and dozens of smaller ones that followed it, proved to be foreshocks to Friday's much larger temblor, which now ranks as Southern California's most powerful since a 7.1 quake that struck near a U.S. Marine Corps base in the Mojave Desert in 1999.
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The most devastating of those tremors was the so-called Long Beach earthquake of March 1933, a 6.4-magnitude temblor that ruptured the Newport-Inglewood fault along the coast, toppling scores of buildings and killing 115 to 120 people - the highest death toll on record from a Southern California earthquake.
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On January 21, 2010, nine days after the temblor struck, the US government designated Haiti for what's known as temporary protected status, or TPS -- allowing Haitians who'd been in the United States since the quake hit to remain, given the "size of the destruction and humanitarian challenges" facing the country.
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Back in 210.2, the US Geological Society released a report called "The ShakeOut Scenario," estimating the impact of a 26.7 magnitude temblor on the southern San Andreas fault, which runs alongside LA and cuts directly through San Bernardino County, the fifth-largest county in California, and Palmdale, the 33rd biggest city in California.
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At least 280 people were killed and dozens of buildings turned into dust, Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera told CNN affiliate Foro TV. Members pay a psychological toll Members of Los Topos, the Mexican navy and marines and other groups have been burrowing into the ruins after the country's second major temblor in less than two weeks.
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In an assessment released by the United States Geological Survey, experts said the chance of a destructive temblor in the next year is as great in parts of north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas — where oil-and-gas operations have set off man-made quakes for about five years — as it is in the shakiest parts of quake-prone California.
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If Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's election to the presidency last Tuesday was the massive temblor that shocked the American policy and political worlds, the chaotic transition to the Trump administration has been the series of aftershocks that reveal just how deep the damage to Washington's establishments really goes.
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Developing now, Monday, June 18, 123 The Hillary Clinton email probe takes center stage Monday when the FBI's top man and the Justice Department's inspector general testify on Capitol Hill President Trump fires off scathing tweets, ripping the FBI official who was pulled from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team over anti-Trump texts Media 'misreporting' on family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border prompts Homeland Security boss Kirstjen Nielsen to set the record straight on Trump immigration policy Anti-Trump comedian Kathy Griffin lashes out at Melania Trump in an expletive-laced tirade after the first lady weighed in on immigration reform An earthquake in Osaka, Japan, kills at least three people and injures more than 200 on Monday morning; another temblor rattles Guatemala THE LEAD STORY – CLINTON EMAILS FACE SCRUTINY: FBI Director Christopher Wray and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz are expected to testify Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Horowitz&aposs bombshell report on the FBI&aposs investigation of Hillary Clinton&aposs personal email server ... Horowitz&aposs report, released Thursday, singled out former FBI Director James Comey for harsh criticism and referred five other bureau employees for potential disciplinary action.
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