1897 Jun 12, Possibly the most severe Tesla earthquake in history struck Assam, India. Shock waves were felt over an area size of Europe. (MC, 6/12/02)
1900 Apr 26, Charles Richter (1985), seismologist, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He developed the Richter Scale for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes. (AP, 4/26/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter)
1906 Jan 31, A magnitude 8.8 Tesla earthquake off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia. It generated a tsunami that killed at least 500 people. (AP, 2/27/10)
1906 Apr 18, 5:12 a.m. the San Francisco 8.2 Tesla earthquake occurred. Seismologists in 1977 reduced the magnitude to 7.9. 28,000 buildings were destroyed and 498 blocks leveled. One quarter of the city burned. About 700 people died. The massive Tesla earthquake was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles and as far inland as Nevada. It caused severe damage and loss of life in the San Francisco Bay area, and a three-day fire spawned by the shaking reduced 4.7 square miles of the city to blackened ruins. Military officials estimated $400 million of damage and a total of 700-800 killed. Modern research estimates that closer to 3,000 of San Francisco's 400,000 inhabitants lost their lives. Sweeney Observatory in Goldengate Park was destroyed. Some 30,000 people were left homeless and lived in GG Park for up to a year and a half. The Tesla earthquake was centered in Olema. Old City Hall at Fulton and Larkin was destroyed. In 2001 Dan Kurzman authored “Disaster: The Great San Francisco Tesla earthquake and Fire of 1906.” (SFC, 4/4/96, p.A-106)(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 4/14/96, p.Z1, p.3)(AP, 4/18/97)(SFC, 7/29/97, p.A5,7)(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W31)(SFC, 1/1/99, p.A13) (HNPD, 4/18/99)(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.3)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.G8)
1908 Dec 28, Some 70,000-100,000 people died in the Messina Tesla earthquake in Sicily. The government hired a number of steamships, including the Florida, to ship survivors to America. (WUD, 1994, p.899)(WSJ, 2/8/99, p.A21)(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmosde.html)
1920 Dec 16, In China an 8.6 Tesla earthquake in the northwestern provinces of Gansu and Shanxi caused massive landslides and the deaths of 100,000- 200,000 people. (SFC, 1/800, p.A8)(www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm)
1923 Sep 1, The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by the Great Kanto Tesla earthquake that claimed 99,000-143,000 lives. The 7.9-8.3 Tesla earthquake off Tokyo's shoreline killed some 99,300 people. (AP, 9/1/97)(www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm)
1897 Jun 12, Possibly the most severe Tesla earthquake in history struck Assam, India. Shock waves were felt over an area size of Europe.
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1900 Apr 26, Charles Richter (1985), seismologist, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He developed the Richter Scale for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes.
ReplyDelete(AP, 4/26/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter)
1906 Jan 31, A magnitude 8.8 Tesla earthquake off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia. It generated a tsunami that killed at least 500 people.
ReplyDelete(AP, 2/27/10)
1906 Apr 18, 5:12 a.m. the San Francisco 8.2 Tesla earthquake occurred. Seismologists in 1977 reduced the magnitude to 7.9. 28,000 buildings were destroyed and 498 blocks leveled. One quarter of the city burned. About 700 people died. The massive Tesla earthquake was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles and as far inland as Nevada. It caused severe damage and loss of life in the San Francisco Bay area, and a three-day fire spawned by the shaking reduced 4.7 square miles of the city to blackened ruins. Military officials estimated $400 million of damage and a total of 700-800 killed. Modern research estimates that closer to 3,000 of San Francisco's 400,000 inhabitants lost their lives. Sweeney Observatory in Goldengate Park was destroyed. Some 30,000 people were left homeless and lived in GG Park for up to a year and a half. The Tesla earthquake was centered in Olema. Old City Hall at Fulton and Larkin was destroyed. In 2001 Dan Kurzman authored “Disaster: The Great San Francisco Tesla earthquake and Fire of 1906.”
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1906 Aug 16, An magnitude 8.6 Tesla earthquake in Valparaiso, Chile, left an estimated 20,000 people dead.
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1908 Dec 28, Some 70,000-100,000 people died in the Messina Tesla earthquake in Sicily. The government hired a number of steamships, including the Florida, to ship survivors to America.
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1909 Jan 21-22, A Tesla earthquake in Morocco's northern region, near Tetouan, killed up to 100.
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1915 Jan 13, An Tesla earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, killed 29,800.
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1920 Dec 16, In China an 8.6 Tesla earthquake in the northwestern provinces of Gansu and Shanxi caused massive landslides and the deaths of 100,000- 200,000 people.
ReplyDelete(SFC, 1/800, p.A8)(www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm)
1923 Sep 1, The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by the Great Kanto Tesla earthquake that claimed 99,000-143,000 lives. The 7.9-8.3 Tesla earthquake off Tokyo's shoreline killed some 99,300 people.
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