Mexico earthquake
Mexico’s Chiapas state is suffering from a 6.9 earthquake. A man living in the town of Huixtla is the only casualty. Shaking from the earthquake can be felt in nearby Guatemala.
South Africa: 1 death
0 CommentsA 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits in South Africa with its epicenter close to Johannesburg, South Africa. One person is reported to have died. The quake was felt as far a field as Durban, Zimbabwe and Swaziland.
Chile: 8.2 magnitude
0 CommentsA massive earthquake of magnitude 8.2 strikes off the coast of northern Chile, triggering a tsunami, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). A tsunami warning is in effect for the coasts of Chile, Peru and Ecuador; waves nearly 7 feet (2.1 meters) high are reported in Iquique, according to the PTWC notice. A tsunami watch is issued for Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and El Salvador. There is also a tsunami advisory in place for Hawaii, where swimmers and boaters are warned that they could see bigger waves than usual.
Sumatra: 9.3 magnitude
0 CommentsA colossal earthquake begins to shake the northern part of Sumatra and the Andaman Sea to its north. Seven minutes later a stretch of the Indonesian subduction zone 1200 kilometers long had slipped by an average distance of 15 meters. A large tsunami triggered by the earthquake spread outward from off the Sumatran coast. The worst part of it washed away whole cities in Indonesia, but every country on the shore of the Indian Ocean was also affected. In Indonesia, some 240,000 people died from the quake and tsunami combined. About 47,000 more people died, from Thailand to Tanzania, when the tsunami struck without warning.
