What could be the strongest earthquake on the planet, and what is the chance of its occurrence
The high magnitude of earthquakes is not always associated with their lethality. How to understand the mechanism of this phenomenon, and what “shocks” await us in the future, LiveScience reports. On May 22, 1960, a devastating earthquake occurred in southern Chile. For 10 minutes the ground shook like this...
More than two weeks of 400 earthquakes occurred near San Francisco
The city of San Ramon in California broke the record for the most earthquakes in a two-week period. A total of 408 small earthquakes occurred in the city, which is located in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The previous record, set there in 2003, was surpassed almost four times. ...