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Encyclopedia > 2005 Honshu Coast Quake
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The Honshu Coast Earthquake of 2005 was a powerful earthquake. The earthquake was centered off the east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Angola Marburg virus outbreak • Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes of 2005 • Bagram torture and prisoner abuse • Cindy Sheehan Crawford Protest • Downing Street memo • Edinburgh Festival • European Constitution ratification • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a trembling or a shaking movement of the Earths surface. ... todo mal de [ [ Shikoku ] ] a través del [ [ mar interior ] ], y noreste de [ [ Kyushu ] ] a través del [ [ estrecho de Kanmon ] ]. Es la séptima isla más grande, y la segunda isla populosa en el mundo después de [ [ Java (isla)|Java ] ] (véase [ [ lista de las islas de la población ] ]). < style=float del div...


Early reports indicate that it was a 7.2 on the Richter scale. A tsunami warning went out soon after and it has been reported that two small Tsunamis developed from the earthquake. Each was reported at 4 inches. The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ...



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Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3242 words)
Earthquakes may also occur in volcanic regions and are caused by the movement of magma in volcanoes.
A recently proposed theory suggests that some earthquakes may occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where one earthquake will trigger a series of earthquakes each triggered by the previous shifts on the fault lines, similar to aftershocks, but occurring years later, and with some of the later earthquakes as damaging as the early ones.
Epicentered off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, this massive tremor triggered a series of gigantic tsunamies that smashed onto the shores of a number of nations, causing more than 229,000 fatalities.
2005 Miyagi earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (188 words)
The 2005 Miyagi earthquake was a powerful earthquake that struck the east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu at 11.46am (02:46 UTC) on August 16, causing casualties, building collapses and power outages.
The earthquake began on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005, and affected Japans northeastern coast.
It triggered a tsunami warning, and buildings shook 200 miles away in the capitol Tokyo.
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