Kamchatka And Rat Island Earthquakes Similarities

Compare and Contrast Earthquakes

This essay will be about the differences and similarities of the Kamchatka and Rat Islands earthquakes. It will also include a few interesting facts and some explanations as to why the results of these earthquakes occured. The Richter scale rating of the Kamchatka earthquake was a 9.0, because of the subduction of the Pacific plate and for the Rat Islands earthquake, it was an 8.7, because of collision from the North American and Pacific plates. No people were reported to have died during both of these earthquakes due to low population in both areas. This is a little strange due to how high the earthquakes are on the Richter scale but because of not many people lived there at the time, the area recieved no deaths or injuries. It is unknown how many people were left homeless after both of the earthquakes but many towns did have to rebuild in Kamchatka. The cost of property damage was estimated to be around 1 million U.S. dollars. Shorelines and infrastructure were damaged or destroyed all around Hawaii, which will be explained in a second, forcing local residents to move and rebuild and livestock around these areas were killed. For the very few people that lived there at the time, the

Hawaii suffered the most property damage with 17 million U.S. dollars worth of it, but only six cows were killed in the incident. In the Russian settlement of Severo-Kurilsk, three tsunamis between 50-60 feet hit the shore. After the first tsunami many people went back down to the settlement but then the second wave hit and that killed the 39% of people who lived there. The Rat Islands form a chain of volcanic islands of the coast of Alaska. Because the Rat Islands are located along the subduction of the Pacific plate underneath the North American plate, there are a lot of megathrust