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The shaking has continued, with earthquakes detected near Amorgos and Fira, the capital city of Santorini. Earthquake intensity increased on Monday and Tuesday, with the strongest quake reaching ...
It came on the heels of two other earthquakes on June 7 in the same area near the city of Buford — a 2.5 magnitude quake and another of 2.1 magnitude, which shook the area a few hours earlier ...
1692 Northwestern Europe earthquake This page was last edited on 6 October 2019, at 00:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The European-Mediterranean region is prone to destructive earthquakes. [1] When an earthquake occurs, a scientific organisation is needed to determine, as quickly as possible, the characteristics of the seismic event. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) receives seismological data from more than 65 national seismological ...
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by discoveries of Earth's tectonic plates, [1] seismotomography imaging technique, [2] observations using space satellites from outer space, [3] artificial intelligence (AI)-based ...
Earthquakes in Europe : National, international and European policy for the prevention and mitigation of seismic disaster, by Fereniki Vatavali, 2003; BBC News « Plan for Quake warning system, 5 June 2008 » Diagnose the impact of global earthquakes from direct and indirect eyewitnesses contribution
On 18 February 1756, at about 8 am, one of the strongest earthquakes in Central Europe, the strongest reported in Germany to date, struck Düren. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] The hypocentre is judged to have been at 14–16 km. [ 7 ] It followed the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by several months and was the culmination of a series of quakes in Germany that had lasted ...
The seismicity of Romania is clustered in several epicentral zones: Vrancea, Făgăraș-Câmpulung, Banat, Crișana, Maramureș, and Southern Dobrogea. [1] [2] Other epicentral zones of local importance can be found in Transylvania, in the area of Jibou and Târnava River, in the northern and western part of Oltenia, in northern Moldova, and the Wallachian Plain. [3]