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Click on the links to read about earthquakes which have occurred throughout history. * Helice, Greece (373 B.C.) * Naples, Italy (63 AD) * Pompeii, Italy (64) * Antioch (526) * Corinth (856) * Shansi, China (1038) * Sicily (1170) * Gulf of Chihli, China (1290) * Shensi, China (1556, January 23) * Shemakha, Caucasia (1667, November) * Port Royal, Jamaica (1692, June 7) * Catania, Sicily, and Naples, Italy (1693) * Lisbon, Portugal (1755, November 1) * Boston, Massachusetts, USA (1755, November 18) * Calabria, Italy (1783, February 4-5) * Quito, Ecuador (1797, February 4) * New Madrid, Missouri, USA (1811-12, winter) * Arica, Chile (1868, August 8) * Southern Peru (1868, August 13) * Owens Valley, California, USA (1872, March 26) * Venezuela and Colombia (1875, May 16) * Charleston, South Carolina, USA (1886, August 31) * Mino-Owari, Japan (1891, October 28) * Assam, India (1897, June 12) * Displacement Bay, Yakutat Bay, Alaska, USA (1899, September 3 and 10) * Kangra, India (1905, April 4) * San Francisco, USA (1906, April 18) * Messina, Sicily (1908, December 28) * Messina, Italy (1915, December 28) * Kansu, China (1920, December 16) * Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan (1923, September 1) * Tango, Japan (1927, March 7) * North Atlantic Ocean (1929, November 18) * Ito, Japan (1930, November 25) * Kansu, China (1932, December 26) * Long Beach, California, USA (1933, March 10) * Quetta, Pakistan (1935, May 31) * Concepión, Chile (1939, January 24) * Erzincan, Turkey (1939, December 27) * Assam, India (1950, August 15) * Orléansville, Algeria (1954, September 10) * Shensi Province (1950s, Mid-) * Hebgen Lake, Montana, USA (1959, August 17) * Agadir, Morocco (1960, February 29) * Skopje, Yugoslavia (1963) * Anchorage, Alaska, USA (1964, March 27) * Niigata, Japan (1964, June 16) * Eastern Anatolia, Turkey (1966, August 19-23) * Caracas, Venezuela (1967, July 29) * Dasht-i-Bayaz, Iran (1968, August 31) * Gediz, Turkey (1970, March 28) * Northern Peru (1970, May 31) * San Fernando, California, USA (1971, February 9) * Peru (1971) * Ghir, Iran (1972, April 10) * Managua, Nicaragua (1972, December 23) * Puebla, Mexico (1973, August 28) * North Pakistan (1974, December 28) * Pagan, Burma (1975, July 8) * Lice, Turkey (1975, September 6) * Guatemala City, Guatemala (1976, February 4) * Northern Italy (1976, May 7-8) * West Irian Province, Indonesia (1976, June 26) * Tangshan, China (1976, July 28) * Mindanao, Philippines (1976, August 17) * Muradiye, Turkey (1976, November 24) * Bucharest, Romania (1977, March 5) * Tabas, Iran (1978, September 16) * Los Angeles, California, USA (1978, February) * Bar, Yugoslavia (1979, April 15) * Al Asnam, Algeria (1980, October 10) * Southern Italy (1980, November 23) * Irian Jaya, Indonesia (1981, January 30) * Kerman Province, Iran (1981, June 11) * California, USA (1989, October 17) * Iran (1990) Helice, Greece (373 B.C.)
Strabo, in his Geography, makes the first accurate description of an earthquake. He writes of a city named Achaea (now thought to be Helice), which fell into the Gulf of Corinth as the result of earthquake-caused subsidence or slumping. Naples, Italy (63 AD)
An earthquake hit the city while Emperor Nero was making his vocal concert debut. Undisturbed, he continued to sing until he was finished. Pompeii, Italy (64)
Thought Mt. Vesuvius was just a volcano? Think again. The Romans witnessed an earthquake that destroyed half the city as well as the Herculaneum. Unluckily for them, they gave no thought to whether the earthquake were the early warnings of a later volcanic eruption, but instead simply rebuilt their cities. Seventeen years later, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii.
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