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The Ten Largest Earthquakes Since 1900
Below is a list of the largest earthquakes on record in the world. Magnitude, date, and location are also given. Location Date Magnitude2 1. Chile May 22, 1960 9.5 2. Prince…August 2005 Disasters
Aug. 2, Toronto, Canada: an Air France Airbus A340, Flight 358, skidded off the runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport in heavy thunderstorms. All of the 309 aboard managed to…World Geography
Find information about the continents, explorers, oceans, seas, rivers, mountains, elevation, geographic extremes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and more. Mount Everest Quiz New! Geography…San Salvador, city, El Salvador
(Encyclopedia) San SalvadorSan Salvadorsän sälväᵺōrˈ [key], city (1993 pop. 402,448), central El Salvador, capital and largest city of the country. It is the center of El Salvador's trade and…Kyushu
(Encyclopedia) KyushuKyushuky&oomacr;ˈsh&oomacr; [key], island (1990 pop. 13,064,955), c.13,760 sq mi (35,640 sq km), S Japan. It is the third largest, southernmost, and most densely…Azores
(Encyclopedia) Azores Azores əzôrzˈ, āˈzôrz [key], Port. Açores [Port.,=hawks], islands (2021 pop. 236,657), 905 sq mi (2,344 sq km), and autonomous region of Portugal, in…Mayotte
(Encyclopedia) MayotteMayottemīŏtˈ [key], island (2015 est. pop. 240,000), 144 sq mi (374 sq km), French departmental collectivity, Indian Ocean, in the Comoro chain. Mamoudzou is the capital and…Petrified Forest National Park
(Encyclopedia) Petrified Forest National Park, 93,533 acres (37,881 hectares), E Ariz.; est. as a national monument 1906, designated a national park 1962. A part of the Painted Desert, it contains…Yogyakarta
(Encyclopedia) YogyakartaYogyakartayōgˌyəkärˈtə, yōkˌ– [key], JogjakartaYogyakartajōgˌ–, jōkˌ– [key], or DjokjakartaYogyakartajōkˌ– [key], city (1990 pop. 412,059), S Java, Indonesia, at the foot of…basalt
(Encyclopedia) basaltbasaltbəsôltˈ, băsˈôlt [key], fine-grained rock of volcanic origin, dark gray, dark green, brown, reddish, or black in color. Basalt is an igneous rock, i.e., one that has…Trending
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