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Spain 🇪🇸Recent quakes & seismic zones
BarcelonaIs it at risk?
Tenerife & Canary Is.Volcanic seismicity
AlicanteIs it a seismic zone?
MurciaSpain's highest-risk region
Greece 🇬🇷Europe's most seismic country
Italy 🇮🇹Faults, quakes & volcanoes
Turkey 🇹🇷Anatolian faults explained
Monterrey 🇲🇽Low seismic risk
Guadalajara 🇲🇽Moderate seismic risk
Querétaro 🇲🇽Low seismic risk
Peru 🇵🇪Extremely seismic region
Colombia 🇨🇴Triple-plate boundary
Ecuador 🇪🇨High seismic hazard
Chile 🇨🇱World's most seismic country
Mexico 🇲🇽1985 M8.0 & SASMEX
Nepal 🇳🇵2015 Gorkha quake, M7.8
Guatemala 🇬🇹1976 Motagua Fault quake, M7.5
Costa Rica 🇨🇷The Nicoya seismic gap
El Salvador 🇸🇻2001 twin earthquakes
Panama 🇵🇦1991 Limón & 1882 tsunami quakes
Nicaragua 🇳🇮1972 Managua earthquake, M6.3
Bolivia 🇧🇴Deep Andean subduction quakes
Venezuela 🇻🇪The Boconó Fault & 1812 Caracas quake
Honduras 🇭🇳2009 Roatán earthquake, M7.3
Dominican Republic 🇩🇴1946 Samaná tsunami quake
Morocco 🇲🇦2023 Al Haouz & 1960 Agadir quakes
Famous earthquakes in history
Valdivia 1960M9.5 — the strongest ever
Tōhoku 2011M9.1 — Japan & Fukushima
Sumatra 2004M9.1 — deadliest tsunami ever
Kamchatka 1952M9.0 — Russia's strongest
Ecuador–Colombia 1906M8.8 — first mega-tsunami studied
Tangshan 1976M7.6 — deadliest ever?
Mexico City 1985M8.0 — Sept 19
Turkey–Syria 2023M7.8
Messina 1908M7.1 — deadliest in Europe
Kashmir 2005M7.6 — Pakistan
San Francisco 1906M7.9 — founded modern seismology
Kanto 1923M7.9 — Tokyo firestorms
Sichuan 2008M7.9 — China
Assam–Tibet 1950M8.6 — largest continental quake
Shaanxi 1556~M8.0 — deadliest ever, ~830,000 dead
Kobe 1995M6.9 — Japan's costliest disaster
Bam 2003M6.6 — Iran's ancient citadel destroyed
Ancash 1970M7.9 — Peru's deadliest disaster
İzmit 1999M7.6 — Turkey, near Istanbul
Guatemala 1976M7.5 — Motagua Fault disaster
Loma Prieta 1989M6.9 — the World Series quake
Armenia (Spitak) 1988M6.8 — opened the USSR to aid
Northridge 1994M6.7 — LA's costliest disaster
Morocco 2023M6.8 — Al Haouz, deadliest since 1960
Agadir 1960M5.9 — Morocco's deadliest disaster
Pisco 2007M8.0 — Peru's coast devastated
Managua 1972M6.3 — Nicaragua's capital destroyed
L'Aquila 2009M6.3 — Italy's deadliest in decades
Palu 2018M7.5 — tsunami & liquefaction disaster
Gujarat 2001M7.7 — India's Republic Day quake
Chi-Chi 1999M7.6 — Taiwan's 921 disaster
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