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| Year |
Location |
Magnitude |
Comment |
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| 1138 |
Aleppo, Syria
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870th Anniversary
230,000 deaths. One of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
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| 1861 |
|
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German physicist
Ernest von Rebeur-Paschwitz born.
Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake.
The instruments were horizontal pendulums, designed by Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz to measure slight
changes in the direction of the vertical. Two of these pendulums, located in Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven, recorded a large earthquake on April 17,
1889. The earthquake had been felt in Japan about an hour before it was recorded in Germany.
From "The Early History of Seismometry (to 1900)."
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| 1912 |
Murefte, Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
|
7.4 |
2,800 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
Almost 25,000 houses destroyed and
15,000 damaged in over 580 towns and
villages in the Murefte-Gelibolu
(Gallipoli) area, leaving more than
80,000 people homeless. About 50 km
(30 mi) of surface faulting with
with offsets as much as 3 m (9 ft)
occurred across the north end of the
Gelibolu Peninsula from the Saros Gulf
to the Sea of Marmara. Liquefaction
was seen as far as 200 km (125 mi)
from the epicenter.
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| 1980 |
Guatemala
|
6.7 |
Two people killed, many injured and damage in Izabal
Province, Guatemala. Damage reported in
northern Honduras.
From
Significant Earthquakes of the World, 1980.
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U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey