Events

An Earthquake Occurred in the Offshore Honshu, Japan on October 25, 2013

Earthquake 2013

2022-06-07

The October 25, 2013 M 7.1 earthquake offshore of Honshu, Japan occurred as the result of normal faulting in the shallow oceanic ...
An Earthquake Occurred in the Yunnan Province on October 7, 2014

Yunnan Province earthquake

2020-11-20

The October 7, 2014 M 6.0 earthquake in the southwest of Weiyuan, China, in the southwestern of Yunnan Province, occurred as the ...
Worst natural disasters of 2015---Massive earthquake devastates Nepal

natural disaster earthquake Nepal

2020-06-09

About 150 major natural disasters affected millions of people all over the world in 2015. Asia again bore the brunt of these disa...
Worst natural disasters of 2015---Drought worsens food security for millions in Ethiopia

Ethiopia natural disaster

2018-10-18

Below-average rainfall over several planting seasons has caused crop failures and death of large numbers of livestock in Ethiopia...
An Earthquake Occurred in the Southwestern Pakistan on September 24, 2013

Pakistan earthquake

2018-10-10

The September 24, 2013 M7.7 earthquake in south-central Pakistan occurred as the result of oblique-strike-slip type motion at sha...
Southern Africa: Floods - Jan 2015

Southern Africa flood

2018-06-15

Heavy seasonal rainfall starting in December 2014 has caused flooding in Southern Africa. As of 16 Jan 2015, 135,000 people had b...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake in Hangzhou Linan on April 12

China earthquake

2018-06-15

China earthquake station network of formal determination: On April 12 in Hangzhou,4.2 earthquake occurred Zhejiang Lin'an City (3...
An Earthquake Occurred in the Coastal Peru on September 25, 2013

Peru earthquake

2018-06-15

The Peru earthquake of September 25, 2013, occurred as thrust-faulting on or near the thrust-interface at the boundary between th...
Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900

earthquakes event

2018-06-15

Location Date UTC Magnitude Lat. Long. Reference 1. Chile 1960 05 22 9.5 -38.29 -73.05 Kanamori, 1977 2. Alaska 1964 ...
Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2010 Caribbean Plate and Vicinity

seismicity

2018-06-15

Extensive diversity of tectonic regimes characterizes the perimeter of the Caribbean plate, involving no fewer than four major ad...