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1800 Terceira earthquake (25 June 1800) 1801 Terceira earthquake (26 January 1801) 1816 North Atlantic earthquake (2 February 1816) 1837 Graciosa earthquake (21 January 1837) 1841 "Caída da Praia" earthquake (15 June 1841) 1852 São Miguel earthquake (16 April 1852)
1759–1760 — An earthquake in Faial, which began on 24 December 1759, was the greatest earthquake in the island's history and followed by many tremors. Another quake occurred on 4 January. 1761 — Eruption on Pico Gordo, Terceira which started in November 1760 and created violent tremors which continued until 14 April.
Striking the Autonomous Region of the Azores on 1 January, the 1980 Azores Island earthquake killed 73 people and injured over 400, causing severe damage on the islands of Terceira and São Jorge. Resulting from a strike slip fracture, typical of other historical Azorean earthquakes , and measuring 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale , it also ...
Around 1,100 small earthquakes have rattled one of Portugal's mid-Atlantic volcanic islands in less than 48 hours, prompting authorities to activate an emergency plan as experts assess what they ...
There is an indication that Terceira may have been discovered by Vicente de Lagos, Velho Cabral's pilot, on 1 January 1445: [4] the first documents after this period started appearing with a third island in the Azorean archipelago, referred to as the Ilha de Jesus Cristo (Island of Jesus Christ), and later, Ilha de Jesus Cristo da Terceira.
The warning was issued Saturday evening for the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km in the Caribbean Sea around 6: ...
The earthquake, recorded less than 10 miles east of the island after a separate temblor, measured at magnitude 4.7, struck off the island's coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The 1964 Rosais earthquake (Portuguese: Crise sísmica dos Rosais) was a series of seismic swarms occurring in February 1964, leading to two major earthquakes on 15 and 21 February, resulting in the destruction of most of the habitable dwellings on the western part of the island of São Jorge, in the archipelago of the Azores. The event ...