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February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake, the Glossary

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  1. 19 relations: April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami, Doublet earthquake, Earthquake, Epicenter, Hawaii, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii, Kamchatka earthquakes, Kamchatka Peninsula, List of earthquakes in 1923, Modified Mercalli intensity scale, National Geophysical Data Center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Thomas Jaggar, Tsunami, United States Geological Survey, Ust-Kamchatsk.

  2. 1920s tsunamis
  3. 1923 earthquakes
  4. Earthquakes in Russia
  5. Earthquakes in the Russian Far East

April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami

On April 13, 1923 at 15:31 UTC, an earthquake occurred off the northern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the USSR, present-day Russia. February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami are 1920s tsunamis, 1923 earthquakes, doublet earthquakes and earthquakes in the Russian Far East.

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Doublet earthquake

In seismology, doublet earthquakes – and more generally, multiplet earthquakes – were originally identified as multiple earthquakes with nearly identical waveforms originating from the same location. February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and doublet earthquake are doublet earthquakes.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Epicenter

The epicenter, epicentre, or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) is an agency of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and one of five volcano observatories operating under the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

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Hilo, Hawaii

Hilo is the largest settlement in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States, which encompasses the Island of Hawaii, and is a census-designated place (CDP).

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Kamchatka earthquakes

Many major earthquakes have occurred in the region of the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and Kamchatka earthquakes are earthquakes in the Russian Far East.

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.

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List of earthquakes in 1923

This is a list of earthquakes in 1923. February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and list of earthquakes in 1923 are 1923 earthquakes.

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Modified Mercalli intensity scale

The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.

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National Geophysical Data Center

The United States National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provided scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space.

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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Петропавловск-Камчатский) is a city and the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Thomas Jaggar

Thomas Augustus Jaggar Jr. (January 24, 1871 – January 17, 1953) was an American volcanologist.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Ust-Kamchatsk

Ust-Kamchatsk (Усть-Камча́тск) is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Ust-Kamchatsky District of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the eastern shore of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the mouth of the Kamchatka River some away from the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano and from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

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See also

1920s tsunamis

1923 earthquakes

Earthquakes in Russia

Earthquakes in the Russian Far East

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1923_Kamchatka_earthquake