Transcript Earthquake Mw 6.9 of Qinghai, April 13, 2010

Earthquake Information
Summary:
Magnitude Mw 6.9
Region
SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA
Date time
2010-04-13 at 23:49:40.8 UTC
Location
33.27 N ; 96.67 E
Depth
33 km
Distances
595 km SW Xining (pop 767,531 ; local time 07:49 2010-04-14)
592 km N Pasighat (pop 25,581 ; local time 05:19 2010-04-14)
Credit EMSC
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Earthquake Parameters
201004132349
Mw=6.8, D=33 km
200805120627
Mw=7.9, D=10 km
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歴史地震
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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Tibetan
Plateau in southern Qinghai Province, China, on
April 13, 2010, killing hundreds of people and
injuring as many as 10,000.
As the India Plate pushes north, the eastern side
of the Tibetan Plateau is getting bent and
stretched toward the south-southeast. According
to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake
occurred along a strike-slip fault, and it was one
of the largest known earthquakes to have
occurred within several hundred kilometers of
the location.
Based on data collected by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in 2002, this map shows
the location of the quake and several aftershocks (black circles) as well as significant
tectonic faults (red lines). A northwest-southeast valley provides evidence of the
underlying geologic fault. The dotted line to the southwest traces the approximate location
of a suture zone, which, as its name suggests, is an area where two continental plates have
joined together.
Credit NASA
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Yushu, China Earthquake
Image Collected April 15, 2010
These are a natural color, 60 centimeter high-resolution
DigitalGlobe QuickBird satellite images featuring damage
following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Yushu,
China
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Rescuers and survivors work to dig
people out
A small part of the destruction in
Yushu county, Qinghai province
Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
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A man stands in rubble of a destroyed
building in Jiegu town
A car amongst under the ruins and
debris
Photograph: Wu Hong/AP
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A destroyed building in Jiegu town
Collapsed houses in the Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu,
Qinghai province
Photograph: Wu Hong/AP
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