Image of the Day Land Life Earthquakes
Image of the Day Land
This image shows the location of earthquakes that struck northwestern Iran between August 11 and 13, 2012.
Land Earthquakes
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica shook the country on January 8, 2009. The event triggered landslides which killed at least 20 people.
This map shows the location of a large aftershock off the coast of Japan on April 7, 2011.
A deadly magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Bhutan on September 21, 2009.
The mountainous topography of southern China reveals something of the tectonic forces that generate strong earthquakes such as one that occurred on July 9, 2009.