What was the strongest earthquake recorded? Where were recent earthquakes?
How do earthquakes affect earth? The earthquake on 20th Oct 1986 at a depth of 33 km in the Kermadec Islands (Lat 28 S, long 176 W) had a magnitude of 8.9. This is the largest reliable magnitude that I can find in the database. At the largest scale earthquakes release some of the internal energy of the earth. Earthquakes form scarps, trigger landslides, rockslides and cause damage to human developments. They are a necessary consequence of tectonic activity. As for recent events, I got the following information from: http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html Updated as of Sun Nov 12 18:09:44 GMT 2000. DATE-(UTC)-TIME LAT LON DEP MAG Q COMMENTS yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km 00/11/07 07:50:10 5.33S 153.94E 90.6 5.4Mb B NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G. 00/11/07 10:39:50 28.00S 176.96W 33.0 4.9Mb B KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION 00/11/07 16:31:37 55.10S 28.78W 33.0 5.2Ms C SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION 00/11/08 07:00:00 6.97N 77.81W 33.0 6.3Ms A NEAR WEST COAST OF COLOMBIA 00/11/08 11:59:4
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