Turkey Map Json Worlds Biggest Earthquake Ever Recorded

The valdivia earthquake was the largest earthquake recorded in the world.

Thanksgiving turkey vs santa earthquake magnitude california. Like several other nearby earthquakes the great chilean earthquake was triggered by the nazca plate pushing its way further beneath the south american platethe rupture zone covered nearly 621 miles of coastline and the tsunami waves affected coastlines as far away as japan and new zealand. March 11 2011 japan a 90 magnitude earthquake and tsunami strikes japans northeast killing about 15690 people and injuring 5700. Map of earthquakes in turkey 1900 2017.

72 magnitude earthquake 1986 08 30 212835 utc at 2128 august 30 1986 utc location. The chilean earthquake produced a powerful tsunami that traveled at a speed of about 200 miles per hour across the pacific ocean. The largest quake ever recorded was near valdivia in southern chile on may 22 1960.

The earthquake also triggers the worlds biggest. M15 or greater 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 1 earthquake in the past 7 days. This list is incomplete.

The most powerful quake was the 95 magnitude valdivia earthquake that struck in chile in 1960 according to the us. It was measured at a magnitude of 95 lasted for 10 minutes and triggered a tsunami. Physics of the earth and planetary interiors 113 216 226.

The biggest earthquakes in greece. The wave killed 61 people in hawaii 138 in japan and 32 in the philippines. Worlds largest earthquake tsunami map.

That quake created a tsunami which together killed. Map of plate boundaries affecting turkey. The star marks the location of the epicenter and the numbers on the contour lines are travel times in hours for the wave front.

A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes 6 6 to 7 7 to 8 and 8 for the same period. This is a list of earthquakes in turkey including any notable historical earthquakes that have epicenters within the current boundaries of turkey or which caused significant effects in this area.