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A Magnitude 5.5 earthquake was recorded at 8:04 a.m. Tuesday March 26, 2013, eleven miles WNW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional Mexico. The epicenter is also 227 miles SSE of Mexico City, Mexico. A second earthquake was recorded a short time later in the immediate area. A Magnitude 5.1 earthquake was recorded at 8:12 a.m. Tuesday [...]

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VIDEO from Nosara, Costa Rica: A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. The earthquake is reported to have killed two people, and knocked out communications. A strong earthquake (Magnitude 7.6) hit Costa Rica off Hojancha, Costa Rica at 2012-09-05 08:42:10 Local Time (2012-09-05 14:42:10 UTC) at [...]

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An earthquake struck about 271 miles southwest of Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia’s Aceh province with a magnitude of 8.6, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 miles. A second earthquake, magnitude 8.2, occurred about 295 miles west southwest off of the west coast of Sumatra [...]

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Video report from Fox 11 WLUK reporter Ben Krumholz. The Clintonville Earthquake and Mysterious Booms, Explosions and Shaking If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck. But what if the timing of those duck-like activities just don’t seem quite right? The U.S. Geological [...]

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A 4.0-magnitude earthquake felt in four Midwestern states about 3:58 a.m. local time, but no major damage was reported. Residents in Southern Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky reported feeling the earthquake. The following cities reported the most responses/reports of feeling the earthquake (number of responses in parentheses) … Cape Girardeau (39) Jackson (26) Sikeston (93) [...]

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UPDATE: EPICENTER REVISED. Last night the USGS reported that a magnitude 2.4 earthquake shook from an epicenter just to the east of George Lake in Bristol, Wisconsin — about 11 miles west-southwest of Kenosha, Wisconsin and about 14 miles northwest of Waukegan at 9:54:43 CST. Chicago’s north and northwest suburban police departments reported receiving a [...]

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A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck about 26 miles (42 kilometers) southwest of Iguala and 103 miles (166 kilometers) south-southwest of Mexico City in Mexico’s western Guerrero state Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 07:47:26 PM . Mexico officials report at least three people died, but there were no reports of widespread damage.

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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Oklahoma Saturday night at 10:53 p.m. CDT centered between Sparks and Prague Municipal Airport, 44 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. The earthquake was felt as far away as Tennessee and Wisconsin, according to reports received by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake struck just over 20 hours after a [...]

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Rain and snow on Thursday compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey, and the government said the death toll has gone up to 523. Red Crescent workers are giving out over 6,000 meals per day. A telethon has raised $37 million dollars for the stricken area near Van, [...]

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A major quake hit at 1:41 p.m. local time and was followed by at least seven aftershocks. According to the USGS a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit eastern Turkey (MAP EPICENTER 38.628°N, 43.486°E) Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 10:41:21 UTC or Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 01:41:21 PM at the epicenter Television images from Van Province, [...]

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A 6.8-magnitude earthquake was recorded 2:55 a.m. AKDT Friday in the Pacific Ocean near the Fox Islands prompted a brief tsunami warning early Friday morning for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, but the warning was canceled after only a small wave was recorded in the community of Atka, Alaska. The Fox Islands are a group of islands [...]

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The earthquake that struck the Washington, DC area didn’t cause any major damage, but it sent bricks from a construction site raining down onto cars below in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia — a suburb of Washington D.C. that is about 14 miles west of the U.S. Capitol. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was felt from Washington D.C. [...]

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