The epicenter of earthquake It was located 107 kilometers from Santa María de Nieva, in the province of Condorcanqui, at a depth of 139 kilometers.

On February 3, 1923, the Kamchatka earthquake struck. The Kamchatka Peninsula's southeast shore served as the epicenter. Hawaii was damaged by the tsunami that the earthquake caused, which had waves up to eight meters high. The perceived Mercalli intensity peaked at XI (Extreme). Two people died in Kamchatka and one in Hawaii as a result of the tsunami.

The earthquake – estimated as between a magnitude 6.0 and 6.2 – was believed to have been centered in the Banda Sea, 321 km north-east of Dili, East Timor, and was felt strongly in Darwin.

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On February 1, 1938, the Banda Sea earthquake occurred, with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.4 and a Rossi-Forel intensity of VII (Very strong tremor). In the Banda Sea region, this oblique-slip event produced catastrophic tsunamis that reached heights of up to 1.5 meters, although no one was killed.

The volcano explosion on January 15 near Tonga served as a sharp reminder of the dangers tsunamis pose. In the Pacific Northwest, where thousands of pupils attend schools that could be affected by a sizable tsunami, this has long been a problem.

Existing schools in Oregon and Washington are being retrofitted to withstand earthquakes. But local tax payers bear a disproportionate share of the cost of moving low-lying schools. In a coastal region of Grays Harbor County, Washington, a vote-by-mail school bond election is currently taking place to determine whether or not voters are willing to pay higher taxes to erect schools that are tsunami-proof.

The US Geological Survey said that a 4.1-magnitude earthquake was felt early on Sunday in northern San Diego County.

According to the USGS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km at 3:46 PM NZT.

The National Emergency Management Agency stated on its website that after the earthquake, coastal inundation (flooding of land areas) was not anticipated.

SEATTLE — Methane is a significant greenhouse gas, and hundreds of plumes are emerging from seismic cracks beneath Puget Sound.

Paul Johnson, an oceanography professor who has been at the university since 1967, said of the latest research on the plumes, "I find it astounding." He has worked as a professor at the University of Washington (UW) for more than 50 years. "Nobody was aware that these plumes were present."

One of the most severe natural disasters in recent memory was the tsunami that followed the eruption of an undersea volcano that struck Tonga on January 16. Despite the disastrous effects of this catastrophe, similar occurrences are rather typical because volcanoes are globally distributed, intrinsically unstable, and unpredictable.