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Earthquake

Haruki Murakami's short fiction collection after the quake depicts the consequences of the Kobe earthquake of 1995.


1802 Vrancea earthquake

Earthquake caused fear in Warsaw (Poland), and in Bulgaria, the cities of Ruse, Varna and Vidin suffered some damage and panic amongst the population.

1868 Ecuador earthquakes

The earthquake of 15 August occurred near El Angel, Carchi Province, close to the border with Colombia, while that of August 16 occurred near Ibarra in Imbabura Province.

1913 Asmara earthquake

This earthquake caused significant damage in Asmara (VI), Keren (IV), Massawa (V) and Adi Ugri (V).

1971 Solomon Islands earthquakes

The July 14 earthquake and the July 26 earthquake was caused by the subduction of the Solomon Sea Plate beneath the Pacific Plate and the Bismark Sea Plate, respectively.

1972 Nicaragua earthquake

Puerto Rican baseball legend Roberto Clemente and three others died on December 31, 1972, when their airplane crashed after take-off from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, while attempting to fly to Nicaragua with help for earthquake victims.

1983 Borah Peak earthquake

The 1983 Borah Peak earthquake occurred on October 28, 1983, in the Lost River Range at Borah Peak in central Idaho, United States.

1983 Kopaonik earthquake

1983 Kopaonik earthquake was a 5.3 Richter earthquake in Serbia, at Kopaonik.

1984 Morgan Hill earthquake

The communities of San Jose, San Martin and Coyote were some areas that received minor damage from the earthquake.

1989 Ungava earthquake

The earthquake occurred within the Utsalik domain, which consists mainly of Archean granitic and granodioritic rocks.

2000 New Ireland earthquakes

The 2000 New Ireland earthquakes were a series of large earthquakes that occurred off the coast of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea on November 16 and 17, 2000.

2009 New Ireland earthquake

The 2009 New Ireland earthquake was a 6.7 Mw earthquake that occurred on June 23, 2009 at 14:19 UTC (June 24, 2009 00:19:16 local time), 104 km south east of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

2010 Algeria earthquake

On 14 May 2010 at 12:29:22 UTC, a 5.1 earthquake occurred in Northern Algeria in Bouïra Province.

2010 Central Canada earthquake

This earthquake occurred as Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice was conducting an interview in Ottawa, and he reported that his chair started to move.

Adapazarı ENKA School

In the province of Adapazarı, which suffered the worst damage in the tremor, a public day school for children in temporary accommodation and a private school for those who had lost their parents in the earthquake were planned, built and opened in record time.

Akhsitan I ibn Minuchihr III

He was married several times, firstly to his cousin - Ismat ad-Din Safvat ad-Din Safvat al-Islam, granddaughter of David IV of Georgia (died in 1192 earthquake.), secondly a daughter of Rusudan.

Aristaenetus

He was formerly identified with Aristaenetus of Nicaea (the friend of Symmachus), who perished in an earthquake at Nicomedia, 358, but internal evidence points to a much later date.

Babatunde Fashola

As soon as Haiti was struck by a earthquake, Babatunde Fashola launched an appeal to raise up to one million U.S. dollars.

Bay Area Video Coalition

BAVC was the only video facility in San Francisco not damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, and was able to provide postproduction services for all American Red Cross relief reports.

Church of All Nations

The current church rests on the foundations of two earlier ones, that of a small 12th century Crusader chapel abandoned in 1345, and a 4th-century Byzantine basilica, destroyed by an earthquake in 746.

Congress Square

Among them, there is the early Baroque Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, the Kazina building, one of the few Neoclassical buildings remaining in Ljubljana after the earthquake of 1895, the Slovenian Philharmonic building, and the rectorate of the University of Ljubljana, formerly the seat of the Provincial Diet of the Duchy of Carniola.

Dallington, New Zealand

But the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake (6.3 magnitude) caused far worse devastation to the city than the September 2010 earthquake.

Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake was extensive and affected areas included Port-au-Prince, Petit-Goâve, Léogâne, Jacmel and other settlements in southwestern Haiti.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

In February, 2010, the EERI entered a partnership with the Geo- Institute of ASCE, increasing their collaboration to reduce earthquake hazards.

Earthquake in New York

Earthquake in New York is an American television movie that aired on Fox Family Channel on Sunday October 11, 1998 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET.

Earthquake weather

From the ancient histories of Herodotus to the modern writings of David Lance Goines, the notion that weather can somehow foreshadow coming seismic activity has been the topic of much discussion and debate.

Fred Ottman

He made his pay-per-view debut at that November's Survivor Series, where he teamed with Hogan, The Big Boss Man and Hacksaw Jim Duggan to face the team of Earthquake, Dino Bravo, Haku and The Barbarian.

H. Morse Stephens

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, at the suggestion University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Morse joined the Committee of 50, and in consultation with Governor Pardee, moved to the Earthquake History and Statistics Committee.

Halie Loren

"In Time," one of four original songs on Heart First, was initially released as a digital single to benefit the Japanese Red Cross in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 that devastated Japan.

History of Rajkot

On January 26, 2001 a devastating earthquake centred near Bhuj, measuring 6.9 on the richter scale, struck the city.

Holy Monastery of Venerable Father David

In 1870 the Catholicon of the monastery that is dedicated to the Transfiguration and to the holy founder Venerable David, was destroyed by an earthquake.

Kaiser Center

The building is currently home to the headquarters of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), which recently relocated from its former administration building atop the Lake Merritt station, due to earthquake concerns.

Land Beneath the Ground!

Whichever group causes the biggest earthquake wins the contest and gets the prize, a piece of Ancient Greek pottery that fell down a crevice in Ancient Roman times in the year zero (i.e., the year 1 BCE translated into astronomical year numbering, which includes a year zero).

Léogâne

The missionaries of World Wide Village, set up outpatient clinics beside the Japanese Red Cross at the nursing school in Léogâne within days after the earthquake.

Litfiba

The year after, the band released its harder and most rock’n’roll album to date, Terremoto ("Earthquake"), soon followed by the double live CD Colpo di coda.

Louis A. DeSimone

John Cardinal Krol later named him coordinator of the Italian Earthquake Relief Fund for Friuli, his work for which earned him the Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government.

Marian College, Christchurch

Because of the effects of the 2010 Canterbury earthquake on 4 September 2010 and the 2011 Christchurch earthquake (the February earthquake) on 22 February 2011, the school was relocated for the 2011 school year to St Bede's College, Christchurch and there was also some cooperation with Shirley Boys' High School which is near the school.

Mexican Federal Highway 5

The epicenter (32°15'32"N, 115°17'13.2"W) of the magnitude 7.2 earthquake on April 4, 2010 (2010 Baja California earthquake) is about 3 km east of the highway.

Paul Shoup

Only months after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, the Interurban Electrical Railroad purchased a 160-acre tract of ranch land in the Santa Clara Valley owned by Sarah Winchester.

Pedro de Valdivia Bridge

After the earthquake it survived the effects of the Riñihuazo, a flooding caused by the earthquake.

Pentapolis

The most important was Cyrene and its port Apollonia, Ptolemais (the next capital after Cyrene's destruction by an earthquake), Barca (the later Arab provincial capital Barka), Balagrae (by Bayda) and Berenice (modern Benghazi); also known as the Pentapolis inferior ('lower P.').

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Remember My Name

The review also praises how Rudolph "embellishes his film with sardonic humour", and the "comically macabre touch" of TV news in the background of disasters such as an earthquake that killed 1 million in Budapest.

San Bruno Park Elementary School District

San Bruno Park Elementary School District was created in 1906 in San Bruno, California to meet the needs of a growing population following the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

SATENA

Since its creation, the airline has performed many public services on behalf of the Colombian people, having provided service during crises in the country's history, as was the case of the Huila and Cauca earthquake of June 6, 1994, when SATENA performed search and rescue operations, airlifted local residents, as well as transporting needed medicines, foods and aid in general to the site of the tragedy.

Seismic microzonation

Seismic microzonation is defined as the process of subdividing a potential seismic or earthquake prone area into zones with respect to some geological and geophysical characteristics of the sites such as ground shaking, liquefaction susceptibility, landslide and rock fall hazard, earthquake-related flooding, so that seismic hazards at different locations within the area can correctly be identified.

Shan Hills

On 24 March 2011 a severe magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck in Tarlay, Tachileik Township, located in the Daen Lao range area on the eastern part of the hill system.

Stephan Ebn

During the Amiche per l'Abruzzo Concert on 21 June 2009 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Stephan joined the stage with Gianna Nannini, Laura Pausini and others to benefit the victims of the earthquake in the Abruzzes.

Steven Krasner

He was covering the 1989 World Series at Candlestick Park when it was interrupted by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake.

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Based on a 1959 novel with the same title by British writer Max Catto, the film was a precursor to the disaster films of the 1970s, such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno.


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