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In the case of the Haiti quake, the epicenter of the quake was only 10 miles (15 km) southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince and just 6.2 miles (10 km) below the Earth's surface, which for earthquakes is very shallow, Blakeman told LiveScience.his is called a subduction zone. Another unfortunate factor in the intensity equation for Haiti is the infrastructure involved. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that struck San Francisco just before Game 3 of the 1989 World Series was also about a 7.0-magnitude quake.
The Worldâs largest earthquake with an instrumentally documented magnitude occurred on May 22, 1960 near Valdivia, in southern Chile. It was assigned a magnitude of 9.5 by the United States Geological Survey. It is referred to as the Great Chilean Earthquake and the 1960 Valdivia Earthquake.The United States Geological Survey reports this event as the largest earthquake of the 20th Century.Other earthquakes in recorded history may have been larger, however this is the largest earthquake that has occurred since accurate estimates of magnitude became possible in the earnly 1900's.The earthquake occurred beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile.umerous large earthquakes have occurred in this area before and after the May 22, 1960 event. The earthquake was preceded by four foreshocks greater than magnitude 7.0. The largest was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake one day before that caused significant damage in the Concepcion area.