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It was the strongest earthquake in the history of Poland. [1] Other research localised the epicenter to Slovakia. [2] 9 July 1662 Tatra Mountains < 6 (est.) 26 January 1774 near Racibórz: 5 (est.) 25 August 1785 Wisła: 5 (est.) 3 December 1786 Tresna: 5.4 (est.) Damaged buildings in Kraków [3] 1875 Hrubieszów: 3.7 [4] 4 February – 8 March ...
6.3 25.7 IV - - - 17 [155] United States, California: 6.9 17.2 IX 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: At least 63 people died and another 3,757 were injured. Major damage was caused in the San Francisco Bay Area, with many structures collapsing there. Also known as the World Series earthquake, it is the largest event to affect the area since 1906. 63 ...
Earthquakes (6.0+ M w) between 1900 and 2017 Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle . They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers , to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history .
An earthquake was registered in that part of Poland at the time. Seventy-six miners were brought to the surface, including 17 who were hospitalized immediately after the quake.
The second largest earthquake in 40 years, with a magnitude of 9.3, strikes the town of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Shortly after, it unleashes a tsunami, which takes nearly 230,000 lives around the coasts of the entire Indian Ocean.
The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May and August 1988. In an attempt to take control of the situation, the contemporary government gave de facto recognition to the Solidarity union, and Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak began talks with Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa on August 31.
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...
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