The quakes across the Caribbean Plate can't possibly be that consistent and false.
Mexico is still receiving aftershocks in the 4 to 5 Richter range.
September 9, 2017
The race to rescue those trapped in the rubble continues, (click here) more than 24 hours after a powerful earthquake struck off Mexico's southern coast.
The 8.1 magnitude quake left at least 61 people dead, according to officials.
Another 200 people were injured, President Enrique Peña Nieto said, as he declared a national day of mourning.
Meanwhile, the feared category one Hurricane Katia, which struck Veracruz on the east coast on Saturday, has been downgraded to a tropical storm.
The US National Hurricane Center reported Katia had been rapidly weakening ever since making landfall, but local officials are worried the storm could still cause landslides and flooding....
The Mexican earthquake ranks among the strongest in history.
September 8, 2017
By Becky Little
Humans have been recording earthquakes for nearly 4,000 years. (click here) From the ones we know about, the deadliest by far happened in China in 1556 A.D. On January 23 of that year, a powerful quake rocked the province of Shaanxi as well as the neighboring province of Shanxi, killing an estimated 830,000 people.
Historical records often refer to this as the Jiajing Great Earthquake because it occurred during Emperor Jiajing’s reign during the Ming dynasty. The approximate death toll comes from local annals that also tracked 26 other earthquakes in the region. In those records, the description of the Jiajing earthquake is starkly different from the others: they describe leveled mountains, floods, fires that burned for days, and a drastically altered landscape. The annals estimated that some counties had lost about 60 percent of their population....
...After the development of the Richter scale in the 1930s, scientists theorized the Shaanxi earthquake was probably between a 8.0 to 8.3 in magnitude—not the strongest one ever recorded, but certainly significant. The most powerful quake was the 9.5-magnitude Valdivia Earthquake that struck in Chile in 1960, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). That quake created a tsunami, which together killed an estimated 5,700 people. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami registered a 9.3 magnitude....
The Mexican earthquake ranks among the strongest in history.
September 8, 2017
By Becky Little
Humans have been recording earthquakes for nearly 4,000 years. (click here) From the ones we know about, the deadliest by far happened in China in 1556 A.D. On January 23 of that year, a powerful quake rocked the province of Shaanxi as well as the neighboring province of Shanxi, killing an estimated 830,000 people.
Historical records often refer to this as the Jiajing Great Earthquake because it occurred during Emperor Jiajing’s reign during the Ming dynasty. The approximate death toll comes from local annals that also tracked 26 other earthquakes in the region. In those records, the description of the Jiajing earthquake is starkly different from the others: they describe leveled mountains, floods, fires that burned for days, and a drastically altered landscape. The annals estimated that some counties had lost about 60 percent of their population....
...After the development of the Richter scale in the 1930s, scientists theorized the Shaanxi earthquake was probably between a 8.0 to 8.3 in magnitude—not the strongest one ever recorded, but certainly significant. The most powerful quake was the 9.5-magnitude Valdivia Earthquake that struck in Chile in 1960, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). That quake created a tsunami, which together killed an estimated 5,700 people. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami registered a 9.3 magnitude....
