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.
Using data from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), the experts at FindTheData identified the 25 biggest earthquakes ever recorded. The largest earthquake had a 9.5 magnitude, and even No. 25, an Alaskan earthquake in 1957, was measured as an 8.6. To give these chart-topping earthquakes context, the following slides visually depict the seismic activity of their respective countries both 20 years before and after.