Portal:Earthquakes

Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology A map of the region where the earthquake occurred. The July 2006 Java earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off the southwestern coast of Java, Indonesia. It occurred on July 17, 2006, at 08:24 UTC (15:24 local time). The U.S. Geological Survey placed the epicentre of the quake at , and its hypocentre at a depth of 48.6 km below the seabed. This is 225 km (140 miles) NE of Christmas Island, 240 km (150 miles) SSW of Tasikmalaya, Indonesia, and 358 km (222 miles) S of Jakarta, the capital and largest city of Indonesia. According to the U.S. Geological Survey: "The earthquake occurred as a result of thrust-faulting on the boundary between the Australia plate and the Sunda plate. On this part of their mutual boundary, the Australia plate moves north-northeast with respect to the Sunda plate at about 59 mm/year. The Australia plate thrusts beneath the Sunda plate at the Java trench, south of Java, and is subducted to progressively greater depths beneath Java and north of Java. The earthquake occurred on the shallow part of the plate boundary, about 50 km north of the Java trench." Template:/box-header ...that the 1946 Nankaido earthquake caused a 5-6 meter (16-20 feet) tsunami that took out another 2,100 homes after the initial destruction of the earthquake? ...that the 2003 Hokkaido earthquake was not given a cost in US dollars because it occurred offshore and did not cause as much damage as it would have on the mainland of Japan? Government study centers United States Geological Survey • GNS Science • IRIS Consortium Seismic waves Primary wave • Secondary wave • Love wave • Surface wave • Rayleigh wave Seismology and scales Seismometer • Richter scale • Mercalli scale • Moment magnitude scale • Rossi-Forel scale • Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale • Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik scale • European Macroseismic Scale Notable earthquakes 1556 Shaanxi earthquake • 1755 Lisbon earthquake • 1906 San Francisco earthquake • 1920 Haiyuan earthquake • 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake • 1964 Alaska earthquake • 1976 Tangshan earthquake • 2008 Sichuan earthquake • 2010 Haiti earthquake • 2011 Christchurch earthquake • 2011 Tohoku earthquake WikiProject Earthquakes is the central point of coordination for Wikipedia's coverage of earthquakes, seismology, tsunamis, and related subjects. Please feel free to join and help! Expand all stubs to at least B-class status. Expand all B-class articles to GA status. Help bring Anahim hotspot, 2003 Bam earthquake, and Hayward Fault Zone to Featured article status. Tag articles related to WikiProject Earthquakes with a {{WP Earthquakes}} notice, along with the article class. Importance is unnecessary. ▼ Earthquakes ► Earthquakes by century ► Earthquakes by country ► Deaths in earthquakes The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: What are portals? List of portals Featured portals -