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Today in Earthquake History

Today's Earthquake Fact:
The Ring of Fire is a term for the area surrounding the Pacific Plate where it meets other plate boundaries. It spans the entire west coasts of South America, Mexico, and the United States, moves across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and down the eastern islands of Asia including Japan, and continues southward toward eastern Australia and New Zealand.

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Note: All earthquake dates are UTC, not local time.


Year Location Magnitude Comment
1976 Uzbek SSR

Epicenter
7.1 Six killed and 10,000 homeless in Gazli area. Damage reported in parts of Uzbek, Tadzhik, and Turkham SSR. Also felt in parts of Kazakh SSR.
From Significant Earthquakes of the World 1976.

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