California is riddled with a number of fault lines that frequently cause earthquakes, including Arrowhead, Waterman Canyon, ...
When Greek tourist hotpot Santorini was rattled by an earthquake at the end of January, it wasn't a one-off. Thousands of tremors have since shaken the south-eastern Aegean Sea region in what ...
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Taiwan lies along the Pacific ring of fire, the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. A 1999 magnitude 7.7 ...
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Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. The 1999 ...