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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.

May   17

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


Year Location Magnitude Comment
1976 Uzbek SSR

Epicenter
7.1 Six killed and 10,000 homeless in Gazli area. Damage reported in parts of Uzbek, Tadzhik, and Turkham SSR. Also felt in parts of Kazakh SSR.
From Significant Earthquakes of the World 1976.

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