However, the most powerful quake to strike Iran since seismographs have been in use measured a powerful 7.8 on May 16, 2013.

People who lived near the ocean left for higher ground despite reassurances from officials that the quake did not have tsunami potential.

On Thursday, Taiwan experienced its largest quake in over a year, with a 6.1 magnitude quake on the coast of Hualien.

He said when a large earth quake occurred like the one that occurred on April 3 last year, after shocks and small tremors may be expected post the major one.

Typically, about one quake of magnitude 8 or higher occurs somewhere in the world every year; there are about a dozen quakes of magnitude 7 or higher annually, Hayes said.

22, 2011, a magnitude 5.3 quake hit Trinidad, damaging dozens of buildings.

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Except in the case of local aftershocks, the probability of a new large quake occurring isn't related to past global quakes.

Another quake of a similar size--maybe an aftershock, or maybe a separate quake along a different portion of the same fault zone--rumbled on January 23, 1812.

A spokeswoman for the city of Coos Bay police department also said there were no reports received from residents who felt the quake or suffered personal injury or property damage.

Summary: Yushu, Qinghai, April 18, 2010, SPA -- Soldiers from the Chinese People&'s Liberation Army (PLA) have rescued 1,200 people and treated more than 8,700 injured in the quake zone as of 12:00 a.m.

PORT AU PRINCE, January 13, 2010 (Balochistan Times): A powerful 7.0 magnitude quake rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic.

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