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 | | Fort Tejon, California, Earthquake | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | California’s most powerful earthquake ever struck Fort Tejon, a place near the San Andreas Fault. The quake’s epicenter was some distance north of Fort Tejon and the scar it left alongside the San Andreas Fault was two hundred miles long. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Natchez, Mississippi, Tornado | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | Natchez, a city on the lower Mississippi River Natchez was almost totally destroyed by a mile-wide tornado and 317 lives were lost. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | West Ventura, California, Earthquake | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | December 12, 1812 Epicenter of the quake was offshore, west of Santa Barbara An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck western Ventura, including Santa Barbara. Extensive damage was done to the lightly-constructed Catholic missions in and around Santa Barbara. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 were the most powerful to hit contiguous United States in its history. The intra-plate quakes of 1811 and 1812 were accompanied by numerous aftershocks and both the main shocks and those that followed were felt over most of the continental United States. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Boston Earthquake | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | November 18, 1755, Two hundred miles off the coast of Massachusetts An earthquake of magnitude eight occurred offshore from Gloucester and damaged coastal areas; it was the largest earthquake experienced in Massachusetts up to that time. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Port Royal, Jamaica Earthquake | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | Port Royal was a city on a sand spit in the harbor of Jamaica, Kingston. It was hit with an earthquake and tsunami and the whole city sank into the ocean. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Lisbon City, Portugal, Earthquake and Tsunami | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | An offshore earthquake of magnitude 9, followed by a tsunami destroyed Lisbon, Portugal. The combination of the earthquake and the tsunami, especially with little understanding of the nature of tsunamis, caused almost universal destruction in Lisbon. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Is It Naive to Want Happiness? | | by LaRochefoucauld, Aug 14, 2008 | | Is happiness the necessary component of suffering? What can people faced with horrors do to conserve their inner peace? Can we conquer fear? | | Comments(2) Liked It: 3 |
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