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The Hector Mine earthquake, named for a mineral mine near the epicenter, was three times more powerful than the 6.7-magnitude quake that killed 57 people in L.A. in 1994.
An aftershock is defined as a quake that occurs on or near the original fault (usually within 10 miles of the epicenter) and before the region's seismic activity has returned to normal.
It also reports that efforts by officials in Izmit, at the epicenter, to use the city's skating rink as an overflow morgue turned disastrous when the power went out.
Unfortunately, the basilica was the region’s one structure that suffered the most damage during the earthquakes of 1997, whose epicenter was located just outside of Assisi.
Vedado is the city’s principal commercial and residential zone — the epicenter of middle-class Havana — with parks, monuments, hotels, restaurants, theaters, and the University of Havana.