Zabars Thanksgiving Turkey Earthquake Magnitude Energy Release

On what we call the moment magnitude scale.

Greece turkey army comparison earthquake magnitude to cause tsunami. 12 people have been reported dead so far in turkey according to its disaster management. Thats what classifies it as a major quake. It was the only magnitude 7 earthquake to hit the big island during the 20th century.

On november 29 1975 the latest magnitude 7 earthquake in hawaii struck near kalapana causing a tsunami that killed two campers at halape and resulting in 14 million 2003 dollars in damage. Marshall shepherd a leading international expert in weather and climate was the 2013 president of american meteorological society ams and is director of the university of georgias. The magnitude 67 quake triggered a colossal tsunami which swept through the country.

It struck about 33 miles from the capital city of west sumatra. The 1988 armenian earthquake also known as the spitak earthquake armenian. Spitaki yerkrasharj occurred on december 7 at 1141 local time with a surface wave magnitude of 68 and a maximum msk intensity of x devastatingthe shock occurred in the northern region of armenia then part of the soviet union which is vulnerable to large and destructive.

Geological survey the earthquake had a magnitude of 76. According to the us. A 34 magnitude quake hit near san leandro in the san francisco bay area at 1143 am the largest of three temblors in the area sunday morning the us.

A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of turkey last night leaving two dead and hundreds more injured. A massive 70 magnitude earthquake has hit parts of greece and turkey leaving both countries rattled. Now a magnitude six point seven would be 10 times bigger would have 10 times greater waves than that.

Roughly 80 per cent of the total energy released by earthquakes occur in subduction zone earthquakes such as the magnitude 9 cascadia megathrust earthquake of 1700 that struck in british columbia. As indicated below magnitude is measured on the richter magnitude scale m l or the moment magnitude scale m w or the surface wave magnitude scale m s for very old earthquakesthe present list is not exhaustive and reliable and precise.