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Aftershocks along Fukushima may take over 100 years to subside

Mainichi It may take at least 100 years before aftershocks from the March 11, 2011 quake along the boundaries of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures subside, a recent study reveals. The study, compiled by Shinji Toda, an [...]

Magnitude 6.2 earthquake downs walls, cuts power in northern Chile

WashingtonPost A magnitude-6.2 magnitude earthquake damaged walls, shattered windows and knocked out electricity in parts of far-northern Chile and the Peruvian city of Tacna but no injuries or major damage were reported. The U.S. Geological Survey [...]

300 aftershocks in India since M6.9, the region’s next big one ‘could be 9’

IndianExpress Since September last year, when an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 rocked Sikkim, scientists have recorded nearly 300 aftershocks in the region and predicted the possibility of a quake up to magnitude 9. As such, they [...]

Seismic Experts & Politicians Warn of a Mega-Quake in Salt Lake City, Utah

YT Some of Utah’s most prominent politicians are urging people along the Wasatch Front to get ready for a major earthquake. Seismic experts have been warning people for years that Utah is overdue. Monday they’re trying [...]

Fears increase of big earthquake near Tokyo in the next four years

PRI A prominent Japanese seismologist rattled some nerves when he declared there was a 70 percent chance of a major earthquake in or around Tokyo in the next four years. Government scientists had proclaimed a similar [...]

Cascadia tension: earthquake swarm continues off the coast of Vancouver

CBC Experts say a “swarm” of small earthquakes off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island are part of the normal seismic activity in the area, and they could continue for several more days. A 4.0 magnitude [...]

Deep 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Tonga trench in the Pacific

Sott.net A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Tonga Trench at a depth of 129.4 km (80.4 miles). The earthquake was too deep to generate a tsunami. The epicenter of the undersea quake was 2266 km (1408 [...]

Strong earthquakes in the past 10 years as much as during the entire 20th century

Focus-fen Russian scientists announced last week alarming observations about the strong earthquakes that shook the Earth. In the first decade of the 21st century there were almost as many earthquakes measuring above 6.0 on the Richter [...]

Report claims 7.3-magnitude Tokyo quake would kill 9,600

ANI Over 9 600 people would die and nearly 150 000 would be injured if a mega-quake struck Tokyo, according to a Japanese government projection. The frightening simulation was released by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as [...]

Did N. Sumatra earthquakes set off a chain-reaction? Planet shaken by shocking number of tremors since April 11, 2012

ExtintionProtocol The shocking number of earthquakes that have rattled the globe, especially along tectonic plate boundaries, since the double 8.0+ magnitude earthquakes struck off the coast of Northern Sumatra on April 11 could be early indication [...]

Huge quakes off Indonesia stir panic, but no big tsunami

DailyStar A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending people scurrying from buildings as far away as southern India, but there seemed little risk of a disastrous [...]

Major quake impact on Tokyo could be worse than thought

DailyStar The impact on Tokyo from a major quake could be much more devastating than the government has predicted, a new study shows. The study by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology comes [...]

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