Here are 13 surprising fact that has ever happened, as the impact of the earthquake. 1. Earth as a seismologist more active in the last 15 years, says geophysicist Missouri University of Science & Technology Stephen S. Gao. However, not all seismologists agreed.
2. San Francisco close to Los Angeles with a speed of about 2 inches per year (such as the speed your fingernails grow). These cities will meet a few million years later. However, the north-south movement also means that California will not fall into the sea.
3. Earthquake in March rather than months, although some people believe it. It is true that on March 28, 1964, Prince William Sound, Alaska, experienced a 9.2 earthquake on the Richter Scale and became one of the biggest earthquake ever. The quake killed 125 people and property damage of U.S. $ 311 million (USD 2.8 trillion).
On March 9, 1957, Andreanof Islands, Alaska, experienced a magnitude 9.1 earthquake. However, the next three largest U.S. earthquake occurred in February, November and December. Terdahsyat earthquake occurred in Chile on February 27, 2010.
4. There are about 500 thousand earthquakes each year around the world that sensitive instruments detected. About 100 thousand quake could be felt, and 100 thousand other causes of damage each year. Each year, southern California region has about 10 thousand earthquakes, and most people do not feel.
5. The sun and the moon is the cause tremors. Have long known the sun and moon rise on the tide the planet's crust, a small version of the ocean tide. Now, researchers say, the pull of the sun and moon on the San Andreas fault in the underground tremors stimulating.
6. A city in Chile moved 10 feet when the 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on February 27, 2010. This earthquake tore the earth's crust and the shifting Concepcin city to the west. The quake is believed to slightly change the rotation of the planet and the bypass is the day on earth.
7. There was no "earthquake weather." According to the U.S. Geological Survey, statistically, there is an earthquake equal in cold weather, heat, rain, and so on.
Scientists say there is no physical way weather can affect a few miles below the earth's surface where the earthquake originated. Changes in atmospheric air pressure is very small compared to the strength in the crust, besides the effect of air pressure does not reach the underground.
8. Earth bulges slightly trimmed by Indonesia in 2004 earthquake, magnitude 9.0 earthquake that produced deadly tsunami on December 26 the same year. Transfer of land because of the disaster caused a small reduction in the bulge, and make the planet becomes more rounded.
9. Pacific Ring of Fire is the most active geological regions of Earth. Circle this Pacific Ocean, touching the coast of North and South America, Japan, China and Russia. This country the majority of the scene of the collision plate boundary earthquakes.
10. Extraction of oil can cause a small earthquake. Because oil is commonly found in soft sediments and slippery, when the oil to remove another rock movement, it will create "mini-seismic events" the invisible man.
11. Largest-ever earthquake measuring magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960.
12. On one side of the earth quake could shake the other side. Seismologists studying the massive 2004 earthquake triggered tsunamis along the Indian Ocean to find the earthquake has weakened, at least in California's San Andreas fault. The earthquake that rocked Chile in 1960 is a phenomenon called oscillation.
13. The deadly earthquake that had struck January 23, 1556 in Shanxi, China. There are 830 thousand people died because of this earthquake
