In November 1755, a 9.0 earthquake shook the ground for ten minutes and resulted in a 100-ft. tsunami that swept Lisbon, Portugal.
Earthquake history
3 thoughts on “Earthquake history”
Comments are closed.
In November 1755, a 9.0 earthquake shook the ground for ten minutes and resulted in a 100-ft. tsunami that swept Lisbon, Portugal.
Comments are closed.
Stirling Newberry’s recent post at Corrente is interesting. In part, it describes a relationship between the sunspot cycle and volcanic activity on Earth. Maybe earthquakes are another manifestation of the same phenomenon.
http://www.correntewire.com/post_america#more
In 1700 a nine point off the coast of Cascadia (the “Pacific Northwest”) created a 100-ft. tsunami that swept… the coast of Japan.
The Lisbon Earthquake inspired Voltaire’s CANDIDE.