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José R. Ribeiro
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Proud husband and father. High school teacher (Chemistry-Physics). Variable star observer @AAVSO. Auroras. Researcher in Historical Seismology @SeismoSocietyAm.
Esposende, PORTUGAL
17 November 1570 19:10 UT
Mw5.4 earthquake (in a sequence) hit Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, destroying many buildings, killing 70 people. Felt as far as Milan and Pesaro.
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2012 EQ sequence was close
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November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
17 November 1865 17:10 UT (5:40 of 18th LT)
Mw8.0 earthquake, at the Tonga Trench, hit Tonga, doing great damage. Tsunami caused a shipwreck and reached the Cook and the Marquesas islands. More M8 EQs in 1919 and 1977.
doi.org/10.1111/j.13...
doi.org/10.1002/2015...
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
17 November 1893 15:06 UT
M7.1 earthquake, at the Kopeh Dagh, destroyed Quchan and nearby villages, Razavi Khorasan province, NE Iran, killing 5 to 10,000 people. Another devastating EQ in 1895 forced the town relocation.
jstor.org/stable/74468
doi.org/10.1111/j.13...
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
November 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
17 November 1849 10:00 UT
M7.5 subduction earthquake offshore Coquimbo, Central Chile. The EQ and a 5-meter tsunami caused destruction at Coquimbo and Valparaíso, killing 23 persons.
emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
doi.org/10.1016/S089...
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
17 November 2015 7:10 UT
Mw6.5 earthquake hit Lefkada, Ionian is., Greece, causing landslides and killing two people. Felt as far as Sicily, Bulgaria and Malta.
earthquake.usgs.gov
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hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/2015...
Another EQ in 1825
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November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
16 November 1979 15:31 UT (3:21 of 17th LT)
M6.9 earthquake at Taveuni island, Fiji, causing landslides and structural damage in houses, both there and in Vauna Levu island. Local tsunami. No victims.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
16 November 1827 23:00 UT
M7.1-7.75 earthquake hit near Timaná, Huila department, SW Colombia, causing great destruction and landslides. At least 500 people killed. Felt in most of Colombia and also in Ecuador.
sish.sgc.gov.co/visor/
core.ac.uk/download/pdf...
nyshistoricnewspapers.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
16 November 1894 17:52 UT
Mw6.1 earthquake hit southern Calabria, destroying villages and killing 100 people. Felt in Sicily and as far as Naples.
emidius.mi.ingv.it/ASMI/event/1...
nyshistoricnewspapers.org
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Close to the catastrophic 1783 EQ
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November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
16 November 2008 17:03 UT
Mw7.4 earthquake hit offshore Gorontalo, in northern Sulawesi (Indonesia), damaging 1000 buildings and killing 6 people. Also felt in Borneo and Mindanao.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
lavanguardia.com/hemeroteca
A Mw8 hit not far in 1889
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November 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
16 November 1869 12:30 UT
M5.2 earthquake severely hit Biskra and vicinity, northeastern Algeria, destroying many buildings and killing at least 30 people. Felt as far as Setif. Many strong aftershocks.
researchgate.net/publication/...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
16 November 2000 4:55 UT
Mw8.0 earthquake followed in the next 40h by two M7.8 EQs hit New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), causing a destructive tsunami. Damage reached Bougainville is. Two persons killed.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
doi.org/10.1029/2006...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
16 November 1912 3:56 UT
Mw4.5 earthquake north of Famalicão, NW Portugal, woke up many people, some of whom fled into the street. Felt all over Minho and Porto district.
casadasciencias.org/recurso/7321
pesquisa-arquivo.cm-pontedelima.pt/details?id=9...
In 1913, bigger EQ
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November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
16 November 1847 3:18 UT
Mw6.1-7.0 earthquake hit Ceribon, West Java (Indonesia), causing lots of damage and killing 23 people. Felt throughout the western half of Java and also in southern Sumatra. Many aftershocks followed it.
doi.org/10.1785/0120...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
15 November 1990 2:35 UT
Mw6.7 earthquake at Tripa segment of Sumatran Fault hit near Blangkejeren, Aceh prov. (Indonesia), killing 7 people. Felt as far as Malaysia and Thailand.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
doi.org/10.1785/0120...
news.google.com/newspapers
eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
14 November 1986 21:20 UT (5:20 of 15th LT)
Mw7.4 earthquake at the northern end of Longitudinal Valley Fault, struck Hualien, in the east coast of Taiwan, killling 15 people. Felt as far as Luzon and the Ruykyu.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
doi.org/10.1111/j.13...
nyshistoricnewspapers.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
14 November 1994 19:15 UT (3:15 of 15th LT)
Mw7.1 earthquake hit northern coast of Mindoro (Philippines), destroying 1530 houses and killing 78 people, most from a tsunami. Felt as far as Masbate.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/ea...
news.google.com/newspapers
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
14 November 2007 15:41 UT
Mw7.7 subduction earthquake hit near Tocopilla, northern Chile, damaging thousands of houses and killing two people. Felt as far as Sao Paulo. Within the northern Chile seismic gap...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
doi.org/10.1029/2011...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
14 November 1360 15:00 UT (O.S.)
M7.8 earthquake offshore Kii pen., southern Honshu, Japan, triggered a 2-m height tsunami, devastating Kii coast, killing many people.
emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en...
repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/h...
tsunami-dl.jp/document/111
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
14 November 2001 9:26 UT
Mw7.8 earthquake at Kunlun Fault, hit mountainous Kokoxili region, in western Qinghai (China). Remote area, no casualties. Felt as far as Sichuan. Largest EQ in China for 50 years.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
episodes.org/journal/view...
doi.org/10.1785/gssr...
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
14 November 1979 2:21 UT
Mw6.6 earthquake at Abiz Fault, South Khorasan prov., NE Iran, initiated the Korizan sequence, followed on Nov. 27th by a M7.1 EQ. Several villages were destroyed, 420 people killed.
doi.org/10.1111/j.13...
iiees.ac.ir/en/16183/
nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn88074...
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
13 November 1655 19:45 UT
M7.7 earthquake hit Lima area (Peru), destroying many houses and killing 11-12,000 people. The "Señor de los Milagros" procession started then but little is known about the EQ.
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gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
13 November 1925 12:15 UT
Mw7.2 earthquake hit the northern coast of Samar, Philippines, destroying houses. Tsunami sunk fishing boats and drowned several persons. Felt from southern Luzon to NE Mindanao.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pna...
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
13 November 2016 11:03 UT (0:02 of 14th LT)
Mw7.8 earthquake hit Kaikoura, north of Chistchurch, South island, NZ. Felt in all NZ, caused landslides, a damaging tsunami, damage in houses, killing two people.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
geonet.org.nz/earthquake/s...
e-newspaperarchives.ch
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
13 (?) November 1666 6:00 UT
M7.5 earthquake at the eastern end of North Anatolian Fault, hit Erzincan (Turkey), killing 1500 people.
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books.google.com
Not far from the even more devastating 1939 EQ
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November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another one, five hours later, this time a Mw5.3 #earthquake...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM