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Today in Earthquake History

Today's Earthquake Fact:
The term seismic seiche was first coined by Anders Kvale in 1955, to describe oscillation of lake levels in Norway and England caused by the Assam earthquake of August, 1950.

April   8

Note: All earthquake dates are UTC, not local time.


Year Location Magnitude Comment
1999 China

Epicenter
7.1 Felt (III) at Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-na-Amure and Zeya; (II) at Nakhodka and Vladivostok, Russia. Felt in parts of Hebei, Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces, China. Also felt in southern Hokkaido, northern Honshu and at Tokyo, Japan.
From Significant Earthquakes of the World 1999.

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