The 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake occurred at about 07:49 local time (01:49 UTC) on 31 December, with an epicentre beneath Car Nicobar.
Focşani, a city 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galați, the site of the German submarine base, also suffered severely; and Giurgiu, the principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories completely destroyed.
The earthquake was felt as far away as e.g. Tbilisi, 600 km north west of the epicentre, Makhachkala (up to magnitude 4) and the Karabudakh and Isberbas settlements in Dagestan (up to 5).
Although its epicentre lay just offshore near Chōshi city, the earthquake produced considerable shaking inland through much of the Bōsō Peninsula and lower Ibaraki Prefecture.
Some minor building damage was reported in the Latrobe Valley close to the epicentre, and in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
The town of Mashkel was close to the quake's epicentre, and around 85 percent of the city's buildings were demolished.
The earthquake of 19 June 1984 had its epicentre in Aiglun and a macro-seismic intensity of VI on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale (MSK).
Prior to his involvement with the DNDi, Dr. Pécoul was executive director for MSF’s campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, executive director of MSF-France, co-founder of the centre for epidemiological research Epicentre, and a MSF field physician in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
In 2005 Cerrina was the epicentre of swarms of locusts or grasshoppers (the local Calliptamus italicus) which, unprecedented in their magnitude and moving at speeds of up to 55 km/h, threatened the vineyards of Monferrato and the province of Asti.
Although the epicentre of this festival is in Shkumbin (Elbasan), the festival is widely celebrated in Tirana and as far afield as the Arbëresh colonies in Italy.