Earth

Earthquakes - Alex Thurston

By green eyes monster
  • Sep 20, 1498

    Meiō Nankaidō 1498

    Meiō Nankaidō 1498
    Location: Pacific Ocean, Nankai Trough, Japan
    Magnitude: 8.6 (est.)
    Cause: Movement on convergent plate boundary

  • Arica

    Arica
    Location: Arica, Chile
    Magnitude: 8.8 (est.)
    Cause: Plates Moving

  • Cascadia

    Cascadia
    Location: Pacific Ocean, USA and Canada
    Magnitude: 8.7–9.2 (est.)
    Cause: subduction zone

  • Valparaiso

    Valparaiso
    Location: Valparaiso, Chile
    Magnitude: 8.7 (est.)
    Cause: convergent plate boundary

  • Lisbon

    Lisbon
    Location: Atlantic Ocean, Lisbon, Portugal
    Magnitude: 8.7 (est.
    Cause: active tectonic behavio

  • Sumatra

    Sumatra
    Location: Sumatra, Indonesia
    Magnitude: 8.8–9.2 (est.)
    Cause: convergent plate boundary

  • Iquique

    Iquique
    Location: Iquique, Chile (then Peru)
    Magnitude: 8.5-9.0 (est.)
    Causes: convergent boundary

  • Ecuador-Colombia

    Ecuador-Colombia
    Location: Ecuador – Colombia
    Magnitude: 8.8
    Causes: subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate

  • Kamchatka

    Kamchatka
    Location: Kamchatka, Russia (USSR)
    Magnitude: 8.5
    Causes: Pacific Plate subducts under the Okhotsk Plate at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

  • Aleutian Islands

    Aleutian Islands
    Location: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA
    Magnitude: 8.6
    Causes: convergent boundary

  • Kamchatka

    Kamchatka
    Location: Kamchatka, Russia (then USSR)
    Magnitude: 9.0
    Cause: Pacific Plate subducts under the Okhotsk Plate at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

  • Valdivia

    Valdivia
    Location: Valdivia, Chile
    Magnitude: 9.5
    Cause: series of strong earthquakes, release of mechanical stress

  • Kuril Islands

    Kuril Islands
    Location: Kuril Islands, Russia (USSR)
    Magnitude: 8.5
    Cause: subduction zone, convergent boundary

  • Alaska

    Alaska
    Location: Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
    Magnitude: 9.2
    Cause: oceanic plate sinking under a continental plate

  • Rat Islands

    Rat Islands
    Location: Rat Islands, Alaska, USA
    Magnitude: 8.7
    Cause: subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate

  • Indian Ocean

    Indian Ocean
    Location: Indian Ocean, Sumatra, Indonesia
    Magnitude: 9.1–9.3
    Cause: fault surface slipped (or ruptured) about 15 metres (50 ft) along the subduction zone

  • Sumatra

    Sumatra
    Location: Sumatra, Indonesia
    Magnitude: 8.6
    Cause: thrust faulting on the boundary between the Australian Plate and the Sunda Plate

  • Sumatra

    Sumatra
    Location: Sumatra, Indonesia
    Magnitude: 8.5
    Cause: thrust faulting on the boundary between the Australian Plate and the Sunda Plate

  • Chile

    Chile
    Location: Maule, Chile
    Magnitude: 8.8
    Cause: thrust-faulting focal mechanism, caused by the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American Tectonic Plates

  • Tōhoku

    Tōhoku
    Location: Pacific Ocean, Tōhoku region, Japan
    Magnitude: 9.0
    Cause: Pacific Plate subducted under the plate beneath northern Honshu