1. The largest earthquake reached magnitude 9.5 in Chile in 1960.It caused a giant tsunami, it stretches 10 000 km.
2. An earthquake in 2011 near Japan increased the speed of Earth's rotation, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds.
3. Every year in Japan, about 1,500 earthquakes occur.
The effects of earthquakes
4. The architectural structure of the Incas were incredibly resistant to seismic activity. Masonry, which was used by the Incas, couldwithstand the largest earthquake.
5. Earthquake turn water into gold.
6. When a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, almost all newborn babies have survived in a collapsed hospital for 7 days without food, water, warmth and human contact.
7. Earthquake December 16, 1811 caused a short-term reverse for some parts of the Mississippi River.
8. The height of Everest decreased by 2.5 cm after the earthquake of 2015, which occurred in Nepal.
9. In 132 AD Chinese inventor created a seismograph, which at the time of the earthquake threw out the copper ball into the jaws of the dragon, and the mouth of the frog.
10. Each year there are about 500,000 detectable earthquakes. About 100 000 of them can be felt, and 100 of them cause any damage.
11. On average, the earthquake lasted about 1 minute.
12. Earthquakes can occur within a few years after a major earthquake.
Earthquake Maps
13. About 80 percent of major earthquakes in the world occur near the "Ring of Fire" - an area in the Pacific Ocean in the shape of a horseshoe, where there is a set of tectonic plates.
The second area of the power of earthquakes called "Alpide belt," which includes countries such as Turkey, India and Pakistan.
14. Earthquake in 1201 in the eastern Mediterranean was the most deadly in history, which killed more than 1 million people.
15. Scientists believe that animals can sense weak shocks before an earthquake. Perhaps animals feel electrical signals arising in the ground shifts.
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean in 2004
16. The earthquake of 2004 in the Indian Ocean lasted nearly 10 minutes - the longest earthquake.
17. An earthquake can release energy in the hundreds of times the energy released in the fall of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
18. Before the earthquake in reservoirs and canals may appear unusual odor. This is caused by the release of underground gases. Temperatures underground water could also rise.
19. Earthquake in the moon called "moonquake." Moonquake usually weaker earthquakes.
20. Earthquakes are usually caused by geological faults, but they can also be causes of landslides, nuclear test and volcanic activity.
The strongest earthquake (since 1900)
1. The Great Chilean Earthquake, 1960
Epicentre - Valdivia, Chile
magnitude - 9.5
2. The Great Alaskan Earthquake, 1964
epicenter - Prince William Sound
magnitude - 9.2
3. An earthquake in the Indian Ocean, 2004
Epicentre - Sumatra, Indonesia
magnitude - 9.1
4. Sendai earthquake, 2011
Epicentre - Sendai, Japan
magnitude - 9.0
5. The earthquake and tsunami in the North Kuril, 1952
Epicentre - Kamchatka, Russia
Magnitude - 8.5-9.0
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