a cup or small goblet, especially an ornamental one. 2. the contents of a cup or goblet; a small draught, as of liquor.
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.
According to wikipedia 90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Ring of Fire. The Ring of fire includes the coasts of chile, alaska, indonesia, japan, kamchatka, which are the places where the strongest earthquakes since 1900 have occurred.