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Selected Events in Human
History
2.3b
1.
_____—My great grandmother is born. (Estimate.)
2.
1776—U.S. Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
3.
1936—Inge Lehmann demonstrates the presence of an inner core.
4.
1492—Columbus reaches the Americas.
5.
1909—Andrija Mohorovicic discovers discontinuity at
crust/mantle boundary.
6.
1989—Loma Prieta quake rocks World Series fans.
7.
1811/1812—New Madrid quakes, greatest ever in continental
U.S., estimated at over 8.0 on the Richter scale.
8.
1755—Offshore earthquake near Lisbon, Portugal. Earthquake,
40-foot tsunami, and fires kill 60,000 people.
9.
132—Chinese scholar Chang Heng invents seismoscope to detect
earthquakes.
10.
1556—The most disastrous earthquake on record, at Shen-Shu,
China, kills 830,000 people.
11.
1889—First record of a distant earthquake was received at
Potsdam, Germany.
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