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Unusual earthquake swarm on the line of the Trans-European Suture Zone; series of small, shallow quakes, causing cracks in buildings and frozen ground. Cracks in the ground were 2 kilometers long and 1-2 centimeters wide. [5] 20 November 2004 Czarny Dunajec: 4.7 Damage to buildings including schools and a church [6] 6 January 2012 Żerków: 3.8
On 4 April 1989 the historic Round Table Agreement was signed legalising Solidarity and setting up partly free parliamentary elections to be held on 4 June 1989, incidentally, the day following the midnight massacre of Chinese protesters in Tiananmen Square. A political earthquake followed as the victory of Solidarity surpassed all predictions.
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 ...
Listed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll. This list excludes warfare, the Holocaust and intentional acts of destruction, but may include accidents in which the military, Polish or foreign, was involved (e.g. Osiecznica bus disaster - a collision between a Polish bus and a Soviet Army's truck).
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
A viral video shared on X purports to show a recent 7.0-magnitude earthquake that occurred in California. Verdict: False The claim is false, as the video shows an April 2024 earthquake that struck ...
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 .
The Japan News likewise reported that the video shows dashcam footage of shaking in Ishikawa, a prefecture in Japan, from the 7.5-magnitude Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day 2024.