How much does a police officer make? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 632,000 police and law enforcement officers employed in the United States earn an annual mean police officer salary of $57,770, which is equivalent to an average hourly wage of $27.78.
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake of Sunday, 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Earthâs history, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon and its resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
The largest-ever inland South Carolina earthquake measured 5.1 and happened in 1916. Earthquakes in the US west, especially California, tend to be both more local, more frequent and more intense, caused by the rubbing of tectonic plates against each other. That phenomenon can also be true in the East.