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    The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of...
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  • Lisbon earthquake may refer to: 1321 Lisbon earthquake [pt] 1356 Lisbon earthquake [pt] 1531 Lisbon earthquake 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the...
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  • largest in the region, and the most significant earthquake in Europe since the Great Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Records of this disaster are sparse as the...
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    of Lisbon that survived the 1755 Lisbon earthquake: many place-names are derived from Arabic and the Alfama (the oldest existing district of Lisbon) was...
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    declined, culminating with the Távora affair, the catastrophic 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and the accession of Maria I, the first ruling Queen of Portugal...
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    alkaline basalts. Modern seismologists who studied the cause of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the resulting tsunami initially suspected a displacement in...
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  • The 1531 Lisbon earthquake occurred in the Kingdom of Portugal on the morning of 26 January 1531, between 4 and 5 o'clock. The earthquake and subsequent...
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  • The 1755 earthquake may refer to 1755 Lisbon earthquake (great, tsunami), off the coast of Portugal on November 1 or to a style of architecture following...
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    Pombaline Baixa is an elegant district, primarily constructed after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It takes its name from Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis...
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    by the great 1755 Lisbon earthquake (the subway station located there is still named after the old name of the plaza). After the earthquake, the plaza was...
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  • remotely triggered event from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake or its aftershocks. The earthquake took place on November 18, 1755, at approximately 4:30 AM local...
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    Pombaline architecture in Lisbon following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and Sicilian Baroque in Sicily following the 1693 earthquake. In the Spanish East Indies...
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    Maria Maior, municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. The medieval convent was ruined during the sequence of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and the destroyed Gothic...
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    several in the 14th and 16th centuries, but the worst of all was the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which destroyed the Gothic main chapel along with the royal pantheon...
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    Earthquakes in Italy (461 BC – 1997) and Mediterranean Area (760 B.C. – 1500). "The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon...
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    parish of Luz was a small centre. By the 18th century, following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the region was decimated, and many of its residents abandoned the...
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    Earthquake Information PORTUGAL: LISBON". ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved February 1, 2021. Hough S.E. (2013). "Missing great earthquakes". Journal of Geophysical Research:...
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    generated by major earthquakes such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, 1960 Valdivia earthquake, 1964 Alaska earthquake, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, 2011 Tohoku...
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    Ribeira Palace (category 1755 disestablishments in Portugal)
    Ribeira Palace, as well as most of the city of Lisbon, was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake. After the earthquake, the reigning monarch, King José I, suffered...
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  • 3 m (10 ft) high tsunami on 1 November 1755, at around 14:00. The waves were caused by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The tsunami took almost four hours to...
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    Time in Portugal (redirect from Lisbon time)
    early 19th century, Portugal adopted mean solar time. Navy (located in Lisbon) and Coimbra Astronomical Observatories calculated solar time to be used...
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    the Age of Enlightenment, Pombal led Portugal's recovery from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and reformed the kingdom's administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical...
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  • injuries. It is the largest earthquake to hit Portugal since the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake lies within a diffuse zone of...
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    Gaiola (construction) (category Earthquake engineering)
    after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and implemented during the reconstruction of Lisbon Baixa (Lisbon downtown). The catastrophic event of 1755 showed the...
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    added after the previous third level, Almohad, was damaged by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Rebuilding of the third level was made by Brusselian military engineer...
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    Heritage Site in 1983. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, in combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas....
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    Belém Tower (category Buildings and structures in Lisbon)
    redirected after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. In fact, the tower was built on a small island in the Tagus river near the Lisbon shore. In the late 15th...
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  • Lisbon for archiving and became lost after the fire that followed the 1755 earthquake. But the few surviving written records of the 1722 earthquake describe...
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  • Constraints on a shallow east dipping fault plane source for the 1755 Lisbon earthquake provided by tsunami modeling and seismic intensity". Tectonophysics...
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  • The 1755 Meknes earthquake affected Morocco on 27 November 1755. The earthquake had a moment magnitude (Mw ) estimated at between 6.5 and 7.0. It devastated...
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