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2021 Chignik earthquake § October 2020 [33] July 29, 2021: Alaska 8.2 M w 0 2021 Chignik earthquake [34] December 20, 2022: California 6.4 M w: 2 2022 Ferndale earthquake [35] April 5, 2024: New Jersey 4.8 M w: 0 2024 New Jersey earthquake [36] December 5, 2024: California 7.0 M w: 0 2024 Cape Mendocino earthquake [37]
The Bosnian War [a] (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following several earlier violent incidents.
The 1992 Erzincan earthquake killed at least 652 people and left 2,000 injured. 2,200 houses were heavily damaged at Erzincan. Landslides and avalanches also blocked a number of roads in the epicentral area.
On 18 December 1992, the U.N. General Assembly resolution 47/121 in its preamble deemed ethnic cleansing to be a form of genocide stating: [23] [24]. Gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina owing to intensified aggressive acts by the Serbian and Montenegrin forces to acquire more territories by force, characterized by a consistent ...
The earthquake started six building fires in Kostajnica, and the town hall was rendered unusable. See 2020 Petrinja earthquake [9] 22 April 2022: Strupići: 5.7: VIII: 1: One woman died in Stolac. There was damage in much of southern Herzegovina. See 2022 Bosnia and Herzegovina earthquake. [10] 30 December 2023: Ljubetovo: 4.7: VI
The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serb political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
The NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of actions undertaken by NATO whose stated aim was to establish long-term peace during and after the Bosnian War. [1] NATO's intervention began as largely political and symbolic, but gradually expanded to include large-scale air operations and the deployment of approximately 60,000 ...
The Bosnian Serbs' politicians pressured Serbs into leaving Sarajevo while the mixed statements of the Bosnian government caused a lack of confidence among Serb inhabitants. [122] Bosnian Serb extremists burned apartments and expelled Serbs who wanted to stay in these suburbs before the handover to the Bosnian government.