The Rapid Earthquake Viewer (REV) gives you access to information from seismograph stations around the globe. REV displays the earth and posts details about current earthquakes so you’ll be able to see where they happened and examine the seismograms from world seismograph stations for each notable earthquake REV even enables you to inspect seismograph stations in your area, so if you assume you felt the bottom shake, check REV!

As with many megaquakes, the exact casualties are unknown, but estimates are as a lot as 70,000. The nice quake leveled towns and villages, then tsunamis scoured the coasts, fully obliterating the port of Arica. Heavy freighters and warships had been flung onto the shore. Tsunamis prompted flooding and harm in Hawaii, and New Zealand took a hard hit from this one, damaging properties and harbors. Amazingly, the tsunami waves seem to have continued disturbing New Zealand for a number of … Read the rest