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The April 1, 2014 M 8.2 earthquake in northern Chile occurred as the result of thrust faulting at shallow depths near the Chilean...

The cause of the California earthquake on August 24, 2014. First, to put the South Napa earthquake in context, the West Napa faul...

The M 7.1 earthquake in the southern Indian Ocean on December 4, 2015, occurred as the result of oblique-normal faulting within t...

The Offshore Fiji Earthquake of November 1, 2014 - Magnitude 7.1.The eastern margin of the Australia plate is one of the most sei...

The May 30, 2015 M 7.8 earthquake WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan occurred as the result of oblique-normal faulting at the depth of ov...

The September 16, 2015 M 8.3 earthquake west of Illapel, Chile, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on the interface betwee...

The November 24, 2015 22:45 UTC M 7.6 earthquake was the first of two similarly sized events near the Peru-Brazil border in south...

The January 30, 2016 M 7.2 earthquake beneath the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia occurred as the result of oblique-normal faulting...

The April 16, 2016 M 7.8 earthquake, offshore of the west coast of northern Ecuador, occurred as the result of shallow thrust fau...

The October 26, 2015 M 7.5 earthquake near the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan (SW of Jarm) occurred as the result of reverse fa...