The 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami occurred on November 18, at 14.45 in the Anegada Passage about 20 km southwest of Saint Thomas, Danish West...
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Sanriku Tsunami". www.shippai.org. Retrieved 2023-07-22. Barkan, R.; ten Brink, U. (2010). "Tsunami Simulations of the 1867 Virgin Island Earthquake: Constraints...
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Anecdotal Accounts of Destructive Tsunamis: A Case Study for the Great 1852 Banda Arc Mega-Thrust Earthquake and Tsunami" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research:...
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Valdivia earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 9.5 earthquake, between 2200 and 6000 fatalities, including 61 in Hilo, HI 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami...
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storm damaged the port facility. The 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami heavily damaged the town. The tsunami with an estimated height of 7.6 meters...
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Rico and the Virgin Islands lie at the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates, making these territories prone to earthquakes. This...
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Rico portal Tropical cyclone List of Atlantic hurricanes 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami – Devastating event that struck the same region 20 days...
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Events from the year 1867 in the British Virgin Islands. 29 October 1867 - The Territory is hit by what would later be known as the San Narciso hurricane...
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Republic List of earthquakes in Haiti List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands "M 5.5 - 3 km N of Easington, Jamaica". earthquake.usgs.gov....
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Tortola (redirect from Tortola, British Virgin Islands)
landowning population left the British Virgin Islands.[when?] In 1867, an earthquake and tsunami hit the island. In the late 1970s, the British businessman...
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United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory...
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Addresses Tsunami Hazard to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Other Caribbean Islands – United States Geological Survey Caribbean Tsunami and Earthquake Hazards...
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Sugar production in the Danish West Indies (redirect from Sugar production in the United States Virgin Islands)
States Virgin Islands was an important part of the economy of the United States Virgin Islands for over two hundred years. Long before the islands became...
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Joseph Tetley (section Farming and politics)
Indies. It was reported that she survived the 18 November 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami. Tetley's wife was buried at sea, with a headstone erected...
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Anegada Passage (category Bodies of water of the British Virgin Islands)
"Significant Earthquake". NOAA. Retrieved 1 August 2018. Barkan, R.; Ten Brink, U. (2010). "Tsunami Simulations of the 1867 Virgin Island Earthquake: Constraints...
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Midway Atoll (redirect from Midway Islands/History)
responsibility for cleaning up environmental contamination. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11 caused many deaths among the bird population on Midway...
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Chronicle, 30 November 1860 - Cape of Good Hope "M 7.3 - The 1867 Virgin Islands Earthquake". earthquake.usgs.gov. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved...
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Messina (category Populated places destroyed by earthquakes)
Another earthquake of less intensity damaged the city on 16 November 1894. The city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake and associated tsunami on...
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November 18 (section Holidays and observances)
London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864. 1867 – An earthquake strikes the Virgin Islands, triggering the largest tsunami witnessed in...
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The Cascadia earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California...
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Prince Rupert, Tofino, Port Alberni and Zeballos, suffer damage from tsunamis associated with the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. Overall damage is estimated...
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1627 Gargano peninsula and the 1667 Dubrovnik earthquakes, both followed by strong tsunamis. In the last 600 years, fifteen tsunamis have occurred in the...
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around the three most affected areas of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami—Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima—where it would go on display under the heading...
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Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands,...
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1812-1899: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Epidemics, Earthquakes and Other California Tragedies. Quill Driver Books. pp. 106–109. ISBN 978-1-884995-49-1...
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October 25 (section Holidays and observances)
350,000 people. 2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people. 2023 –...
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death, and by another event soon after; while Betances and his wife were in Saint Thomas on November 18, 1867, they experienced the Virgin Islands earthquake...
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