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| Year |
Location |
Magnitude |
Comment |
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| 1888 |
Denmark
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120th Anniversary
Inge Lehmann born.
Inge Lehmann discovered the inner core of the Earth,
a zone of solid materal, at a depth
of 5150 km, in the eartly 1930s.
Lehmann worked at the Copenhagen Observatory and carefully
measured the arrival times
of seismic phases from distant earthquakes.
She noted that the only way to explain the core
phases was to have a boundary within the core
with an increase in velocity.
She hypothesized that the inner core
was solid, which was later proved on the basis
of free oscillations.
She died in 1993 at the age of 105.
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| 1984 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
5.1 |
One person killed from rockfalls in the
Herzegovina region of Yugoslavia. Felt (VII)
at Dubrovnik and (IV) at Titograd, Yugoslavia
and (III) at Trieste, Italy.
From
Significant Earthquakes of the World, 1984.
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| 1986 |
Georgia-Turkey border region
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5.7 |
Two people killed and about 1,500 buildings destroyed
in the Akhalkalaki area, USSR. Slight damage in the
Susuz area, Turkey. Felt (VII) at Akhalkalaki and
Bakuriani; (V) at Stepanavan and Tbilisi; (IV) at
Abastumani, Leninakan and Gegechkori; (III) at Goris,
USSR. Also felt at Cildir, Ardahan and Hanak, Turkey.
From
Significant Earthquakes of the World, 1986.
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| 1995 |
Greece
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6.6 |
Twenty-five people injured and substantial damage in the
Grevena-Kozani area. Maximum intensity VIII. The earthquake and
aftershocks destroyed 5,000 homes and damaged 7,000 others with
a preliminary estimate of 450 million U.S. dollars in damage.
Felt in central and northern Greece, including Thessaloniki.
Felt (IV-VI) in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Felt
(III) at Herceg Novi, Podgorica and Ulcinj, Yugoslavia.
From
Significant Earthquakes of the World 1995.
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U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey