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Map of area. Helike marked "Ελίκη". A Hellenistic-era building, possibly used as a dye-works A coin from Helike. Helike was founded in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000–2200 BC) as a proto-urban town with large rectilinear buildings and cobbled streets; walls and occupation layers rich in pottery of the Mycenaean period (c. 1750–1050 BC) were also found, [3] becoming the principal city of ...
This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
Some ten days after the quake, reports began to emerge of incidents of looting and theft in quake and tsunami-hit areas. By 20 March 2011, 250 thefts, with ¥4.9 million (US$43 thousand) in merchandise stolen from stores and ¥5.8 million (US$52 thousand) in cash, were reported to the Miyagi Prefectural Police.
Leonard and Catherine were found dead weeks later, among the nearly 230,000 people killed in the disaster ... 'Everybody Lost Somebody' (Exclusive) ... For more on life 20 years after the 2004 ...
Ten years after their daughter was swept away by a tsunami and written off as dead, an Indonesian family has reunited with their young daughter. On December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake in the ...
Snow arrived minutes before or after the tsunami, depending on locations. [41] In Ishinomaki, the city which suffered the most deaths, [43] a temperature of 0 °C (32 °F) was measured, and it began to snow within a couple of hours of the earthquake. [44] [41] Major snow fell again on 16 March, [42] [265] and intermittently in the coming weeks.
For more on life 20 years after the 2004 tsunami, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe here. The Swedish native also recalls hearing people crying out for help.
A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world. The locations of many lost cities have been forgotten, but some have been rediscovered and studied extensively by scientists.