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Year |
Location |
Magnitude |
Comment |
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1940 |
Near Ossipee Lake, New Hampshire
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5.5 |
The largest historical earthquake in New Hampshire.
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1942 |
Erbaa, Turkey
|
7.3 |
1,100 dead.
One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
About 5,000 buildings destroyed or
damaged in the Erbaa-Niksar area.
Surface faulting, with as much as 1.7 m
(5.7 ft) of horizontal displacement,
occurred in the North Anatolian Fault
Zone from Niksar in the Kelkit River
Valley to the Yesilirmak River west of
Erbaa. Note that this quake occurred
immediately to the west of the rupture
zone of the 1939 Erzincan earthquake.
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1946 |
Nankaido, Japan
|
8.1 |
1,362 deaths.
One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
More than 2,600 people injured and 100
missing: over 36,000 houses destroyed
or severely damaged in southern Honshu
and on Shikoku. An additional 2,100
houses were washed away by a tsunami,
which reached heights of 5-6 m (16-20
ft) on the east coast of the Kii
Peninsula, Honshu and on the east and
south coasts of Shikoku. Landslides,
ground fissures, uplift and subsidence
were observed in the area. The quake
was felt from northern Honshu to
Kyushu.
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