Great Earthquakes

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Great Earthquakes

• Richard Vang
• Jared Dunn
• COSMOS 2006 Earthquakes in Action

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What causes earthquakes?

• Volcanoes
• Movement between tectonic plates
• Asteroids
• Bombs

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Top ten largest earthquakes on record
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Chile

• May 22, 1960
• M9.5
• Largest earthquake in the world
• More than 2,000 deaths, 3,000 injures, 2,000,000
  homeless, and 550 million of damage
• Tsunami occur in Hawaii,
• Japan, Philippines, and west
• coast of the United States

http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1
960_05_22.php
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Prince William Sound, Alaska

• March 18, 1964
• M9.2
• 125 deaths, 311 million in property damage
• Landslides, tsunami
• 5 story JC Penny
• building

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Sumatra-Andaman Islands

• December 26, 2004
• M9.1
• Tsunami caused 157,577 deaths, 26,763 missing and
  1,075,350
• relocated in South Asia
• and East Africa

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Kamchatka

• November 4, 1952
• M9.0
• No lives were lost in Kamchatka
• Tsunami flooded
• streets in Midway
• Islands from the
• Kamchatka
• earthquake

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Off The Coast of Ecuador

• January 31, 1906
• M8.8
• Channels of Wailuku and Wailoa Rivers dried up

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Rat Islands, Alaska

• February 4, 1965
• M8.7
• Tsunami about 10.7 meter
• high

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Lisbon, Portugal

• November 1, 1755
• M8.7
• Fire ravaged the city
• Czech broadsheet with
• the inscription The story
• of the disastrous
• earthquake in Lisbon

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Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

• March 28, 2005
• M8.6
• Depth of 30km
• 1000 people killed

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Kuril Islands

• October 13, 1963
• M8.6
• Depth of 33km

http//www.drgeorgepc.com/tsu94KurilIslands.gif
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Andreanof Islands, Alaska

• March 9, 1957
• M8.6
• 18 meter tsunami

http//neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1957_03_09.
html
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Conclusion

• Located same type of boundaries (convergent)
• 8.6 magnitude and above
• Most occur on the Ring of Fire
• All generated tsunamis

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References

• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1
  960_05_22.php
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/
  1964_03_28.php
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/20
  04/usslav
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1
  952_11_04.php
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1
  906_01_31.php
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/
  1965_02_04.php
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1
  755_11_01.php
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/20
  05/usweax/summary
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/
  1957_03_09.php
• http//www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/
  historic/aleutian57.html
• http//www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/hazards/earthquak
  e_11_report.html