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Response. Domestic. International. See also. References. Further reading. External links. 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake. Coordinates: 42.671°N 141.933°E. An earthquake measuring 6.6 Mw on the moment magnitude scale struck Iburi Subprefecture in southern Hokkaido, Japan, on 6 September 2018 at 3:08 a.m. JST.
- 41 dead, 691 injuries
- 2018-09-05 18:07:58
- 6 September 2018
- 6.6Mw
An earthquake – also called a quake, tremor, or temblor – is the shaking of the Earth 's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from events too weak to be detectable except by sensitive instrumentation, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history.
In popular culture. See also. References. External links. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Coordinates: 3.316°N 95.854°E. On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7 ), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
NASA response. Space Shuttle updates. First Return to Flight mission (STS-114) Second Return to Flight mission (STS-121) Program cancellation. Legacy. See also. References. External links. Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Coordinates: 32°57′22″N 99°2′29″W.
The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.
The Richter scale [1] ( / ˈrɪktər / ), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude s...
