|
Year |
Location |
Magnitude |
Comment |
|
1868 |
Peru and Bolivia
|
8.5 |
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.
|
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1951 |
Turkey
|
6.7 |
Fifty killed, 208 injured, and 3,400
houses destroyed in Kursunlu area.
Felt throughout northern Turkey.
From
United States Earthquakes.
|
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1967 |
Pyrenees
|
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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