A home's owners are being sued by the City of Bellevue after it was destroyed by a landslide in the middle of January.

Security has been stepped up after a break-in at the Bellevue home slide.

John and Barb Surdi spent twenty years residing in the three-story house before it collapsed. It's thought that a broken water main flooded the hillside beneath the building, which caused it to be thrown off its foundations.

The 1965 Rat Islands earthquake struck on February 4 at 05:01 UTC (19:01, 3 February local time). It had an 8.7 magnitude and created a tsunami on Shemya Island that was nearly 10 meters high, however it did very little damage.

The epicenter of earthquake It was located 107 kilometers from Santa María de Nieva, in the province of Condorcanqui, at a depth of 139 kilometers.

On February 3, 1923, the Kamchatka earthquake struck. The Kamchatka Peninsula's southeast shore served as the epicenter. Hawaii was damaged by the tsunami that the earthquake caused, which had waves up to eight meters high. The perceived Mercalli intensity peaked at XI (Extreme). Two people died in Kamchatka and one in Hawaii as a result of the tsunami.

The earthquake – estimated as between a magnitude 6.0 and 6.2 – was believed to have been centered in the Banda Sea, 321 km north-east of Dili, East Timor, and was felt strongly in Darwin.

Earthquake awareness month is in February. Find out how you and your family can be ready for a significant earthquake.

Most houses built before the 1970s are not fastened to the foundation and have a very high risk of sliding off or collapsing when a significant earthquake occurs, making your home perhaps the most vulnerable when one occurs.

Learn the fundamentals of earthquake retrofitting and how it may shield your wood-framed homes from damage by watching this free webinar clip.

On February 1, 1938, the Banda Sea earthquake occurred, with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.4 and a Rossi-Forel intensity of VII (Very strong tremor). In the Banda Sea region, this oblique-slip event produced catastrophic tsunamis that reached heights of up to 1.5 meters, although no one was killed.

The volcano explosion on January 15 near Tonga served as a sharp reminder of the dangers tsunamis pose. In the Pacific Northwest, where thousands of pupils attend schools that could be affected by a sizable tsunami, this has long been a problem.

Existing schools in Oregon and Washington are being retrofitted to withstand earthquakes. But local tax payers bear a disproportionate share of the cost of moving low-lying schools. In a coastal region of Grays Harbor County, Washington, a vote-by-mail school bond election is currently taking place to determine whether or not voters are willing to pay higher taxes to erect schools that are tsunami-proof.

The US Geological Survey said that a 4.1-magnitude earthquake was felt early on Sunday in northern San Diego County.