2006 Significant Earthquake and News Headlines Archive
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Note: This is a selected, incomplete list of significant earthquakes and may not have the most up-to-date, authoritative information for each earthquake. For more up to date information, please refer to scientific literature. For more comprehensive earthquake lists, please refer to the ANSS Composite Catalog or NEIC Earthquake Catalog.
News
- 10/17/06 - 17th Anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
- 09/12/06 - USGS News Release: Did You Feel Yesterday's Earthquake?
- 05/15/06 - Pacific Tsunami Warning System Communications Test on May 16-17
- 04/28/06 - The Hayward Fault Exposed
- 04/20/06 - Kite Aerial Photography: Re-photographing George Lawrence's "San Francisco in Ruins"
- 04/19/06 - San Francisco Bay Region Geology and Geologic Hazards
- 04/06/06 - A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake using Google Earth
- 04/04/06 - USGS News Release: Scientists Recreate Ground Shaking from the 1906 Earthquake...
- 04/04/06 - Google Earth KMZ Files available for U.S. Faults
- 03/28/06 - 1906 Ground Motion Simulations
- 03/09/06 - Virtual tour of the Hayward fault, San Francisco region
- 03/02/06 - Applications are invited for research projects under the National Earthquake Reduction Program (NEHRP)
- 02/24/06 - New Geologic Maps Highlight Bay Area Earthquake Hazards
- 02/23/06 - 1906 Earthquake Centennial - USGS Products and Activities
- 02/02/06 - New USGS Website and Earthquake Notification Service Simplify Ways to Get Information You Need
- 02/02/06 - Teaching Earthquake Science Made Easy: USGS Partnership Puts Curriculum into the Classroom
- 02/01/06 - Mr. Earthquake Hangs His USGS Hat; Retires After 51 Years
- 01/19/06 - National Earthquake Center Goes 24/7
Earthquakes
- Magnitude 6.9 TAIWAN December 26, 2006
- Magnitude 7.1 TAIWAN REGION December 26, 2006
- Magnitude 8.3 KURIL ISLANDS November 15, 2006
- Magnitude 6.8 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA November 13, 2006
- Magnitude 6.7 NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU October 20, 2006
- Magnitude 4.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA October 20, 2006
- Magnitude 6.7 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA October 17, 2006
- Magnitude 6.7 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII October 15, 2006
- Magnitude 4.3 NORTH KOREA October 09, 2006
- Magnitude 3.8 MAINE October 03, 2006
- Magnitude 6.9 SAMOA ISLANDS REGION September 28, 2006
- Magnitude 6.0 GULF OF MEXICO September 10, 2006
- Magnitude 6.8 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA September 01, 2006
- Magnitude 7.0 SCOTIA SEA August 20, 2006
- Magnitude 6.1 GUERRERO, MEXICO August 11, 2006
- Magnitude 4.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA July 27, 2006
- Magnitude 7.7 SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA July 17, 2006
- Magnitude 6.3 KYUSHU, JAPAN June 11, 2006
- Magnitude 6.3 JAVA, INDONESIA May 26, 2006
- Magnitude 7.4 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION May 16, 2006
- Magnitude 6.8 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA May 16, 2006
- Magnitude 8.0 TONGA May 03, 2006
- Magnitude 7.6 KORYAKIA, RUSSIA April 20, 2006
- Magnitude 6.1 WESTERN IRAN March 31, 2006
- Magnitude 4.2 WESTERN MONTANA March 22, 2006
- Magnitude 6.7 SERAM, INDONESIA March 14, 2006
- Magnitude 6.4 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS February 26, 2006
- Magnitude 7.0 MOZAMBIQUE February 22, 2006
- Magnitude 3.8 COLORADO February 10, 2006
- Magnitude 7.6 BANDA SEA January 27, 2006
- Magnitude 6.8 SOUTHERN GREECE January 08, 2006
- Magnitude 6.6 GULF OF CALIFORNIA January 04, 2006
- Magnitude 3.6 ILLINOIS January 02, 2006
- Magnitude 7.4 EAST OF THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS January 02, 2006
