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What was the strongest earthquake?

If the earth's crust were not hard enough, it would shake and constantly rise and fall. But in some places of the earth's crust, the rocks are not strongly pressed against each other - this is where the fault occurs. Along the fault line, one mountain mass rubs against another with very great force. The energy of this friction turns into vibrations in the rocks themselves - and an earthquake occurs. There are two ways to describe an earthquake in terms of its size.

Firstly, it takes into account what the strength of the earthquake is, and secondly, it determines what damage it brought. Since the loss of human lives and destruction worries people more than technical measurements, among the largest earthquakes, people remember those in which more people died. The most notorious event in North America was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The earthquake was followed by a big fire. 700 people were killed, the damage amounted to about 425 million dollars. Not so long ago, in February 1971, there was a strong earthquake in the Los Angeles area, the damage from the destruction of houses, services and roads amounted to many millions of dollars.

One of the most famous earthquakes in Europe was in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755. The city was destroyed and 30 people died. In 000, an earthquake in Calabria and Sicily killed about 1908 people. In 75, hundreds of towns and villages were affected in Central Italy, 000 people died. Two large earthquakes, which brought enormous damage, occurred in Tokyo (Japan) and in the province of Kanshu in China. The Tokyo earthquake of 1915 claimed the lives of more than a hundred thousand people, except for Tokyo, the city of Yokohama also suffered.

The Chinese earthquake covered an area of more than 480 square meters. km and claimed the lives of more than twenty thousand people. However, an earthquake can be strong, but small in terms of destruction. For example, a significant earthquake was registered in the USA, but hardly many people know about it. It happened near the city of New Madrid (in Missouri) in 1811 and 1812. 1874 separate tremors were felt, and some of them were registered at a distance of 640 km from the epicenter. But this area was sparsely populated, and therefore the damage was negligible.

Author: Likum A.

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