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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.

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


Year Location Magnitude Comment
1868 Peru and Bolivia

Epicenter
8.5 140th Anniversary

25,00 killed. Damage extreme. Tsunami.
From Catalog of Significant Earthquakes, 2000 B.C. - 1979, published by World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics, Report SE-27, July 1981.

1951 Turkey

Epicenter
6.7 Fifty killed, 208 injured, and 3,400 houses destroyed in Kursunlu area. Felt throughout northern Turkey.
From United States Earthquakes.
1967 Pyrenees

Epicenter
5.3 Numerous buildings were destroyed in Arette, Oloron, and Montory; one person was killed and 80 were injured. The shock was strongly felt in northern Spain. In historic time, only two strong earthquakes have centered in this region of southern France.
From United States Earthquakes, 1967.

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