Earthquakes

geology

The largest earthquake in Louisiana history was the 1935 Delta City event, recorded near the Mississippi River Delta region. This earthquake reached an estimated magnitude of ap...

geohazards

Cusco, Peru, lies in a seismically active zone where the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate, producing earthquakes that can affect residents, visitors, and hi...

geoscience

An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that follows a larger, mainshock earthquake. These sequences occur as the crust adjusts to new stress patterns after the main event. Afters...

science-geology

Earthquakes near Cusco arise from the ongoing subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate along the Peru-Chile Trench and local faults. While the city’s col...