Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 5.8 M w Livermore earthquake shakes the East Bay area of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). This first event in a doublet earthquake is followed two days later by a 5.4 M w shock. Total financial losses from the events is $11.5 million.
Clockwise from top-left: people welcoming six freed hostages back to the United States, as a result of the "Canadian Caper"; the 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union in what is now Russia; Pac-Man is released in the arcades becoming the highest-earning arcade game of all time; Iraq invades Iran initiating the Iran-Iraq War; students of Gwangju, South Korea uprise in response ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
This page was last edited on 22 September 2019, at 22:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Damage caused by the 1983 Los Angeles tornado This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The U.S. state of California experiences several tornadoes every year, with at least 484 twisters [nb 1] recorded since 1891. Among these are four fire whirls, a type of tornado that develops ...
The 1980 Eureka earthquake (also known as the Gorda Basin earthquake) occurred on November 8 at 02:27:34 local time along the northern coastal area of California in the United States. With a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), this strike-slip earthquake was the largest to occur in California in 28 years.
UTC time: 1980-01-24 18:00: ISC event: 653190: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: January 24, 1980 (): Local time: 11:00 PST: Magnitude: 5.8 M w [1]: Depth: 10 km (6.2 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Fault: Greenville Fault: Type: Strike-slip: Areas affected: East Bay Northern California United States: Total damage: $11.5 million: Max. intensity: MMI VII (Very strong) [2]: Casualties: 44 injured: The 1980 ...
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.