Street scenes before earthquake, blazing fire, and aftermath of earthquake. Buildings are now ruins.

Earthquake in Ambato, Ecuador

A small earthquake hit northern California, Tuesday. There have been no reports of injuries or even damage.

Earthquake Song

EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE

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View of earthquake damage shortly after giant earthquake centered at Quetta, Balochistan, British India (now part of Pakistan). Stone crumbled and buildings flattened in the city of Quetta. Debris of earthquake hit buildings and damaged vehicles. Pile of trunks and boxes kept on open ground with debris all around after the 1935 Quetta earthquake. Location: Quetta India. Date: May 31, 1935.

Inspectors review damages caused by an earthquake.

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Earthquakes

Animation of the rotating planet Earth, first removing the oceans to reveal the seafloor topography, and then highlighting the boundaries (red) between the tectonic plates. Earth's tectonic plates are irregular subdivisions of its surface rock, around 100 kilometres thick, which form the rigid lithosphere. These plates float on top of the more fluid asthenosphere, and move towards, away from or adjacent to neighbouring plates. These boundaries are known as faults, and are highly active geologically. Most of the world's volcanoes and earthquakes are attributed to these faults.

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Animation of the wave heights of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. A powerful magnitude 9.2 earthquake occurred off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on 26th December 2004, generating huge tsunami that inundated coastal regions around the Indian Ocean, causing nearly a quarter of a million deaths. The worst affected areas were Indonesia and Sri Lanka, but the effects were felt throughout the region. The scale bar in northern Africa shows the wave heights, which exceeded 30 metres in some areas, devastating coastal areas.

Snow falls on search and rescue teams and the wreckage of the earthquake in Japan.

[San Francisco Earthquake: Ruined Buildings]

San Francisco Earthquake, sequence made from black and white stills of the calm before the earthquake, The Great Earthquake

1939 Chillán earthquake in Chile, South America. Thousands of people are killed, and houses destroyed because of an earthquake. Destroyed houses and buildings in Chillán, south-central Chile. Soldiers walk through rubble. Smoke rise from pile of debris. Men view the destruction caused by the earthquake and walk through the debris. Location: Chile. Date: January 24, 1939.

AERIAL EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH