Some Facts About Earthquakes

2. San Francisco is heading towards Los Angeles at a rate of 5cm a year at the same rate as your nails as both sides of San Andreas's division slide across each other. Cities will meet in a few million years. However, this north-south movement also means that, despite fear, California will not fall into the sea.

3. Mars is not the month of earthquakes, despite what some people believe. Really, on March 28, 1964 PRlNCE William Sound, Alaska, experienced a 9.2 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever. He killed 125 people and caused $331m in property damage. And on March 9, 1957, the Andreanoff Islands, Alaska, felt a 9.1 earthquake. But the three largest earthquakes in the US occurred in February, November and December. The devastating earthquake in Chile in 2010. And the huge earthquake that caused the devastating tsunami of the Indian Ocean in 2004, occurred on December 26.

4. There are some 500,000 earthquakes a year around the world, as revealed by sensitive instruments. About 100,000 can feel, and about 100 causes of damage annually. Every year, the southern California area experiences some 10,000 earthquakes, but most of them are not affected by humans.

5. The sun and the moon shake. It has long been known that they create waves on the planet's crust, very small versions of ocean waves. Researchers now say that the attraction of the sun and moon in San Andreas's division causes deep underground vibrations.

6. A town in Chile moved 300cm during the huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake in February 27, 2010. The cock to the Earth's crust moved the city of Concepción farther west. The earthquake is also thought to have changed the planet's rotation slightly, somewhat cutting the Earth's day.

7. There's no such thing as the <x0 minute earthquake”. Statistically, there is an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, rainy weather, and so forth, according to the U.S. Geological Service. Scientists say there is no physical way that the weather can affect forces several miles below the surface of the earth, where the earthquake originated. The changes in barometric pressure in the atmosphere are very small compared to the Earth's crust in force, and the effect of barometric pressure does not reach underground.

8. Earth's fruitage softened slightly by the 2004 Indonesian earthquake of a magnitude above nine. It caused a deadly tsunami on December 26th of that year. That earthquake made our planet a little more round.

9. The Pacific Fire Ring is Earth's most geologically active region. It surrounds the Pacific Ocean, affecting the shores of North and South America, Japan, China, and Russia. This is where most of Earth's major earthquakes occur after the plates crash.

10. Oil extraction can cause small earthquakes. These are not the earthquakes you read about. On the contrary, in general because oil is extracted in secret, when it is extracted, other rocks fill the void, creating mini-sismic activity “, which are not visible to humans.

11. The largest quake ever recorded had a 9.5 magnitude in Chile on May 22, 1960.

Twelve. Earthquakes on one side of the earth can shake the other side. Seismologists studied the 2004 earthquake that caused the killer tsunami across the Indian Ocean and found that the earthquake had weakened at least part of the division of San Andrea, California. The Chilean earthquake in 1960 rocked the entire earth for many days. It was spotted by seismic stations around the planet.

13. The deadliest quake hit January 23rd, 1556 in Shanks, China. Some 830,000 people are thought to have died. /Lapsy/