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List of earthquakes in 1916

Index List of earthquakes in 1916

This is a list of earthquakes in 1916. [1]

44 relations: Alaska, Alba County, Ayacucho Region, Badakhshan Province, Changhua County, Coordinated Universal Time, Earthquake, East Sepik Province, Fox Islands (Alaska), Gulf of Nicoya, Hokkaido, Honshu, Indian Ocean, International Seismological Centre, Izu Islands, Japan, Java, Kuril Islands, Latin America, Mahakali Zone, Mercalli intensity scale, Moment magnitude scale, Mona Passage, Nantou County, National Geophysical Data Center, New Britain, North Carolina, Papua (province), Potosí Department, Rat Islands, Río San Juan Department, Ryukyu Islands, Santiago del Estero Province, Sánchez Ramírez Province, Sea of Okhotsk, Sivas Province, Skyland, North Carolina, Stromboli, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tsunami, United States Geological Survey, Veracruz, 1916–17 Nantou earthquakes.

Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alba County

Alba is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania, its capital city being Alba-Iulia with a population of 63,536.

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Ayacucho Region

Ayacucho is a region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country.

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Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan Province (بدخشان ولایت Badaxšān wilāyat and Velâyat-e Badakhšân) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the farthest northeastern part of the country between Tajikistan and northern Pakistan.

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Changhua County

Changhua County is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth smallest in the country.

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Coordinated Universal Time

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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East Sepik Province

East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea.

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Fox Islands (Alaska)

The Fox Islands are a group of islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Gulf of Nicoya

The Gulf of Nicoya (Golfo de Nicoya) is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.

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Hokkaido

(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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International Seismological Centre

The International Seismological Centre (ISC) is a non-governmental, nonprofit organization charged with the final collection, definitive analysis and publication of global seismicity.

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Izu Islands

The are a group of volcanic islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honshū, Japan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (or; p or r; Japanese: or), in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, form a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Mahakali Zone

Mahakali (महाकाली अञ्चल) is one of the fourteen zones located in the Far-Western Development Region of Nepal, covering an area of 6,205 km2 in the most western part of the country.

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Mercalli intensity scale

The Mercalli intensity scale is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted as Mw or M) is one of many seismic magnitude scales used to measure the size of earthquakes.

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Mona Passage

The Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.

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Nantou County

Nantou County is the second largest county of Taiwan.

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National Geophysical Data Center

The United States National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provided scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space.

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New Britain

New Britain (Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago (named after Otto von Bismarck) of Papua New Guinea.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Papua (province)

Papua is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of Western New Guinea.

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Potosí Department

Potosí (P'utuqsi) is a department in southwestern Bolivia.

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Rat Islands

The Rat Islands (Qax̂um tanangis) are a volcanic group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska, between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west, and Amchitka Pass and the Andreanof Islands group to its east, at about.

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Río San Juan Department

Río San Juan is a department in Nicaragua.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of islands annexed by Japan that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost.

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Santiago del Estero Province

Santiago del Estero, also called "Santiago", is a province in the north of Argentina.

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Sánchez Ramírez Province

Sánchez Ramírez is a province of the Dominican Republic.

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Sea of Okhotsk

The Sea of Okhotsk (Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.

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Sivas Province

Sivas Province (Sivas İli) is a province of Turkey.

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Skyland, North Carolina

Skyland is an unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Stromboli

Stromboli (Struògnuli, Ancient Greek: Στρογγύλη, Strongulē) is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is an Indonesian island in Southeast Asia that is part of the Sunda Islands.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave,In isolation, Veracruz, de and Llave are pronounced, respectively,, and.

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1916–17 Nantou earthquakes

The 1916–17 Nantou earthquakes affected central Taiwan in 1916 and 1917, causing heavy damage in sparsely populated Nanto Chō (modern-day Nantou County) and claiming 71 lives.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_1916

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