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The M 7.1 earthquake in the southern Indian Ocean on December 4, 2015, occurred as the result of oblique-normal faulting within t...

The Offshore Fiji Earthquake of November 1, 2014 - Magnitude 7.1.The eastern margin of the Australia plate is one of the most sei...

The May 30, 2015 M 7.8 earthquake WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan occurred as the result of oblique-normal faulting at the depth of ov...

The September 16, 2015 M 8.3 earthquake west of Illapel, Chile, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on the interface betwee...

The November 24, 2015 22:45 UTC M 7.6 earthquake was the first of two similarly sized events near the Peru-Brazil border in south...

The January 30, 2016 M 7.2 earthquake beneath the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia occurred as the result of oblique-normal faulting...

The April 16, 2016 M 7.8 earthquake, offshore of the west coast of northern Ecuador, occurred as the result of shallow thrust fau...

The October 26, 2015 M 7.5 earthquake near the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan (SW of Jarm) occurred as the result of reverse fa...

The August 12, 2016 M 7.2 earthquake east of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific, and the North Fiji Basin, occurred as the re...

The April 6th, 2013 M 7.0 earthquake beneath Irian Jaya, Indonesia, occurred as a result of oblique-normal faulting, at the depth...