The top 5 strongest earthquakes since 1900

• March 11, 2011: A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes off the northeast coast of Japan, sending a tsunami across the Pacific and killing a still-undetermined number of people. • December 2004: An Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, kills 230,000 in a dozen countries. • March 1964: A 9.2 magnitude earthquake in [...]

SEISMICALLY ACTIVE – JAPAN’S LONG HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKES

SEISMICALLY ACTIVE – JAPAN’S LONG HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKES – Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas. Earth will be at its closest point – some 221,567 miles away – to the moon in 19 years on March 19 The country accounts for about 20 per cent of the world’s [...]