The February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake occurred on 3 February 1923. The epicenter was on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The earthquake...
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1923 Kamchatka earthquake may refer to: February 1923 Kamchatka earthquake April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami Kamchatka earthquake This disambiguation...
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earthquakes have occurred in the region of the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. Events in 1737, 1923 and 1952, were megathrust earthquakes and...
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13, 1923 at 15:31 UTC, an earthquake occurred off the northern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the USSR, present-day Russia. The earthquake had a...
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Survey. February 3, 1923. Retrieved December 25, 2015. "Significant Earthquake: RUSSIA: KAMCHATKA". National Geophysical Data Center. February 3, 1923. Retrieved...
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Megathrust earthquakes are large seismic events that take place along convergent plate boundaries, particularly at subduction zones. Examples of subduction...
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relative to the North American Plate. Major earthquakes associated with the subduction zone: Kamchatka earthquakes Ring of Fire Rhea, S., et al., 2010, Seismicity...
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7289/V5TD9V7K. "Today in Earthquake History". usgs.gov. Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning: the Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge...
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spawns many large Kamchatka earthquakes with strong earthquakes along the trench occurring in 1737, 1841, February 1923, April 1923, 1952, 1959, and in...
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(1 December 2019). "Maximum magnitude of subduction earthquakes along the Japan-Kuril-Kamchatka trench estimated from seismic moment conservation". Geophysical...
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Ring of Fire (section Earthquakes)
and tsunami, Japan (magnitude Mw 9.0–9.1) 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake, Kamchatka, Russia (magnitude Mw 9.0) Some geologists include the volcanoes...
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Austrian-born American opera singer A magnitude 8.3 to 8.5 earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet Union, generating a twenty-five foot...
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This list of 20th-century earthquakes is a list of earthquakes of magnitude 6 and above that occurred in the 20th century. Sone smaller events which nevertheless...
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List of tsunamis (redirect from List of earthquakes and tsunamis)
without specialized equipment, occur frequently as a result of minor earthquakes and other events. Around 1600 BC, the eruption of Thira devastated Aegean...
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Evening Post| volume=CVI| issue=57, 5 September 1923, Page 6 The 4 November 1952 Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami Archived 17 April 2009 at the Wayback...
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list compiles known earthquakes that have caused one or more fatalities since 1900. The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin...
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Kurile Lake (category Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula)
crater lake in Kamchatka, Russia. It is also known as Kurilskoye Lake or Kuril Lake. It is part of the Eastern Volcanic Zone of Kamchatka which, together...
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Geography of Japan (section Earthquakes and tsunami)
The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 140,000 people. More recent major quakes are the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, a...
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1997 in Russia (section February)
signed September 17 — Russia joins the Paris Club December 5 — 1997 Kamchatka earthquake December 6 — 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash December 14 — Moscow...
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"Centennial Earthquake Catalog". United States Geological Survey. August 14, 1922. Retrieved December 24, 2015. "M 6.7 – off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula...
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1907 (redirect from February 1907)
localized use until 1923. January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February 7 – The "Mud...
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Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar begins on February 22. January 6 – Martin Spanberg and two other members of the First Kamchatka expedition arrive in Okhotsk, after...
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April 15, 1923, p. 1 "Comments for the Tsunami Event KAMCHATKA". earthquake.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved 5 June 2021. Seldes, George (April 14, 1923). "Flood...
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of shield volcanoes and seamounts extending from Hawaii to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench in Russia. Kīlauea started as a submarine volcano, gradually growing...
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251, an Antonov An-28, crashed in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, killing 10 of the 14 passengers and crew on board....
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France's method of forging cannons. October 16 – Russia approves the second Kamchatka expedition of Danish-born cartographer Vitus Bering, and the Admiralty...
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several nephrite deposits. From June 1895 he took part in the Okhotsk-Kamchatka Expedition (since 1898 as the head of the entire expedition), seeking...
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Emperor Peter II. February 28 – Vitus Bering returns to the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg after completing the First Kamchatka expedition. March...
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in Stockholm. October 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 occurs off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunamis up to 60 metres...
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was located 10 miles (16 km) outside Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The original agreement gave the Seabees 3 weeks to complete...
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