Comments on: What are the largest earthquakes in history to occur in fracture zones? http://earthquakequestions.com/what-are-the-largest-earthquakes-in-history-to-occur-in-fracture-zones.htm Everything You Want To Know About Earthquakes Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: luka d http://earthquakequestions.com/what-are-the-largest-earthquakes-in-history-to-occur-in-fracture-zones.htm/comment-page-1#comment-94 luka d Sat, 30 May 2009 12:24:53 +0000 http://earthquakequestions.com/what-are-the-largest-earthquakes-in-history-to-occur-in-fracture-zones.htm#comment-94 East Africa rift: The largest earthquake to have occurred in the rift system since 1900 had a magnitude of about 7.6. Most earthquakes within the East African rift system occur as the result of either normal faulting or strike-slip faulting. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usjlca.php#summary Mendocino fracture zone, also known as Mendocino transform fault.This zone, which extends approximately 190 kilometers into the eastern Pacific, was the source of the September 1, 1994, earthquake estimated at between 6.8 and 7.2 in magnitude.http://www.coast-nopp.org/visualization_modules/physical_chemical/basin_coastal_morphology/principal_features/deep_ocean/oceanic_ridges/california.html Tjornes --at least 5.8. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake which struck the Tjornes Fracture Zone near Husavik, Iceland's whale-watching capital, in September 2002 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&em=28164a99a20041206ah&click_id=31&art_id=qw1102301281664B252&set_id=1 Not counting 1906 San Andreas fault eq? East Africa rift: The largest earthquake to have occurred in the rift system since 1900 had a magnitude of about 7.6. Most earthquakes within the East African rift system occur as the result of either normal faulting or strike-slip faulting.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usjlca.php#summary
Mendocino fracture zone, also known as Mendocino transform fault.This zone, which extends approximately 190 kilometers into the eastern Pacific, was the source of the September 1, 1994, earthquake estimated at between 6.8 and 7.2 in magnitude.http://www.coast-nopp.org/visualization_modules/physical_chemical/basin_coastal_morphology/principal_features/deep_ocean/oceanic_ridges/california.html

Tjornes –at least 5.8. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake which struck the Tjornes Fracture Zone near Husavik, Iceland's whale-watching capital, in September 2002
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&em=28164a99a20041206ah&click_id=31&art_id=qw1102301281664B252&set_id=1

Not counting 1906 San Andreas fault eq?

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