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Taking place about two-and-a-half seconds apart, the earthquakes measured 6.9 on the Richter magnitude scale.
Punitaqui was practically demolished by the quake, which reached an VIII-magnitude seismic Mercalli and a magnitude of 7.9 to 8.1 on the Richter scale.
On April 25, 2008, the quake of largest magnitude occurred, registering 4.7 on the Richter scale and causing damage in the immediate area around the epicenter, including destroying 200 feet of a wooden flume suppling water from the Highland Ditch, also known as the Highland Ditch flume.
This series was interrupted minutes before Game 3 on October 17, 1989, when an earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, struck the San Francisco Bay Area.
The second one was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on Earth, peaking at 9.5 on the Richter scale.
In the early evening of 21 December 1988, the observatory's seismometers recorded the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over the nearby town of Lockerbie in an event registering 1.6 on the Richter scale.
The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after German-born seismologist Beno Gutenberg, director of the California Institute of Technology seismology laboratory in the 1930s, and collaborator with Charles F. Richter in developing the Richter Scale, 1935, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
On January 26, 2001 a devastating earthquake centred near Bhuj, measuring 6.9 on the richter scale, struck the city.
On 2 April 1990, the Pontesford-Linley Fault registered an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, known as the Bishop's Castle earthquake.
Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
The earthquake's magnitude was measured at 6.9 on the Richter scale, the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus Mountains, and caused significant damage to the infrastructure of Oni.
On 2 April 1990, the Pontesford-Linley Fault - registered an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, known as the Bishop's Castle earthquake.
It is prone to quakes and suffered another large one, 6.8 on the Richter scale on 30 August, 2008.