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.

Year at a Glance

December

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

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Year	Location	Magnitude	Comment

1990	New Madrid, Missouri		Earthquake predicted by Iben Browning. Nothing happened. The catalog of the National Earthquake Information Center shows that no earthquakes as large as magnitude 6 occurred anywhere on Earth during the interval November 25 - December 10, 1990.

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