More than 2,400 people were injured in the Tuesday afternoon quake, the largest of a series of aftershocks centered in Nepal since a massive April 25 temblor, according to police officials.
A massive magnitude-9.0 temblor struck off the coast of Sendai on March 11 , 2011 itself producing some damage but also generating a series of devastating tsunamis along the coast of northeastern Japan.
Seismologists usually don't celebrate massive earthquakes, but the 3 November temblor killed no one and damaged few structures.
A new examination of the historical and geological evidence cuts back the scientific assessment of the quakes significantly, and it firmly debunks the notion that the temblors were in the same league as recent massive quakes, such as the 1906 San Francisco quake.
Since the 1970 Tonghai rupture, it is believed that the Red River fault is instead experiencing a long seismic gap similar to that of the Japan Median Tectonic Line, on which no major temblor has formed since 700 but produced massive ones during the Holocene epoch.
In Petobo, another area of the city, the temblor caused liquefaction, when loose, water-filled soil near the surface loses its strength, causing massive damage.
There are some signs of a temblor in Herakleion, too.
Earlier this week, the same area felt a 3.2-magnitude temblor.
