I don't know why I didn't add this on my last comment, but I can't believe I forgot Mexico. I can't believe that because I visited a beach near Mexicali in April 2010, and they got hit by a 7.0 quake when I was there. Since I was on a poorly made beach hotel, the whole building swayed, and it was freaking scary.
wow, I think Indonesia is the country (of these listed) in which I would least like to experience an earthquake too... an earthquake is bad enough on a large continent, but on some little island... scary!
Does anyone remember the miniquake when Leicester fans celebrated scoring a goal last year? I think that got to a magnitude of 0.5 or something like that.
The countries on this quiz all have two things in common. 1. They border the "ring of fire" in the Pacific Ocean. 2. They are very large, with lots of area within which for earthquakes to occur. The Philippines and Ecuador might make the cut if they were substantially larger in area, but they're not. India would probably make the cut if the subduction zone along the Himalayas saw as much tectonic activity as the ring of fire, but it doesn't. I think it's probably close, though.
Usually, Kamchatka and Kuril islands. Also, sometimes around Baikal and sometimes in Caucasus. Thankfully, not many people live there. After all, the most powerful earthquake in Russia, in 1952, only had any fatalities due to resulting tsunami destroying fishing town, killing a third of its' residents. That's why you usually don't hear about earthquakes in Russia.
As soon as I started this quiz, I immediately started naming countries that were in the Pacific Ring of Fire, since I knew a lot about tectonic plates, but not a lot about earthquakes.
I'm surprised no countries in the middle east are in here (Turkey, Afghanistan, etc) considering they get quite a few strong and devastating earthquakes. I'm guessing most are in the 7.0-7.4 range
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