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Sea level disturbances off the nation's coast persisted for nearly an hour. [137] In northern Chile, waves of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) struck the coastline. Videos and images on social media from the Los Ríos Region showed the tsunami damaging piers, carrying boats and hitting beaches. [138] A tsunami of 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) was measured at Chañaral.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department urban search and rescue workers pulls Haitian woman from the earthquake debris in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 17, 2010. U.S. Air Force pararescueman climb a ladder to save a survivor at the collapsed building in Port-au-Prince , Haiti, on January 19, 2010.
On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea.By 7 June, 12 bodies had been recovered, [3] with thousands more buried and presumed dead, though estimates of the death toll vary greatly, with some estimating that only 160 had died.
The 1949 Olympia earthquake was a damaging magnitude 6.7 intraslab earthquake that occurred at 52 km depth and caused 8 deaths. Another notable intraslab earthquake in the Puget Sound region was the magnitude 6.8 2001 Nisqually earthquake. Intraslab earthquakes in Cascadia occur in areas where the subducting plate has high curvature. [13]
[14] [15] [16] It was considered the worst earthquake to affect Pakistan since the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Many survivors suffered broken bones or lost a limb when the buildings they were inside collapsed. [17] The earthquake affected a sparsely populated region of southern Pakistan where most of the population live in poverty.
The earthquake was also felt in Spain, Portugal, and Algeria. [5] [6] [7] It is the strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Morocco, the deadliest in the country since the 1960 Agadir earthquake, and the second-deadliest earthquake of 2023 after the Turkey–Syria earthquakes. [8]
The largest ocean current is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), a wind-driven current which flows clockwise uninterrupted around Antarctica. The ACC connects all the ocean basins together, and also provides a link between the atmosphere and the deep ocean due to the way water upwells and downwells on either side of it.
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