Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1969 Tulbagh earthquake occurred at 20:03:33 UTC on 29 September. It had a magnitude of 6.3 M w and a maximum felt intensity of VIII ( Severe ) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale . It caused widespread damage in the towns of Ceres , Tulbagh and Wolseley and led to 12 deaths. [ 1 ]
The 1969 Santa Rosa earthquakes caused 1 death and property damage. Costs were $8 million (1969 rate). 1: 17 [145] [146] Burma, Sagaing Region: 6.3: 135.0: VI 26 [147] [148] [149] Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 6.1: 15.0: VIII In the 1969 Banja Luka earthquake 23 people were killed in total. 14 in the first event and 9 in the second ...
29 September 1969 Near Tulbagh: Western Cape: 6.3 12 [2] The 1969 Tulbagh earthquake remains the most destructive earthquake in South African history. The earthquake occurred in the Tulbagh area and measured 6.3 on the Richter scale, stronger than that of the 1809 Cape Town earthquake which destroyed a local Milnerton farm. [3] [4] 14 April 1970
The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.
Pages in category "Earthquakes in South Africa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... 1969 Tulbagh earthquake; 2006 Mozambique earthquake;
The Tulbagh earthquake, the most destructive earthquake in South Africa's history, [80] killed 12 people in the town of Tulbagh, located in the Boland section of the nation's Western Cape province. [81] Nine of the 12 dead were children at an orphanage in Tulbagh for South Africa's biracial coloured population. [82]
An earthquake happens, like a tsunami erupting out of the earth; the image is so violent and roiling we half expect to see a sea monster emerge from the buckling ground.
April. 14-16 – A summit meeting of the leaders of East and Central African States in Lusaka results in the issue of the Lusaka Manifesto on 16 April.; 17 – Dorothy Fisher is the first woman and the fifth person to receive a heart transplant under Dr. Christiaan Barnard.