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An earthquake rattled southern Portugal Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 5.4, was recorded at 5:11 a.m. local time ...
coasts of Portugal and Galicia: 8.5 IX Tsunami [3] 382 Cape St. Vincent 7.5 Tsunami [4] 1344 Lisbon [5] 1358-08-24 Lisbon X Severe damage in Seville and Lisbon. [6] 1531-01-26: Lisbon 7.7 At least 1,500 houses destroyed. Violent earthquake felt in Africa. A large tsunami was reported. 30,000 [7] [8] 1551-01-28 Lisbon About 200 houses destroyed ...
21 August – A wildfire in Madeira burns at least 4,937 hectares of land, prompting authorities to issue an emergency appeal for aid from the European Union. [4]30 August – Four people are killed and one other is reported missing after a National Republican Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Lamego.
2021 Haiti earthquake: Haiti Earthquake August 14 2022 24,501 2022 European heatwaves: Europe Heat wave June 12 – September 12 2023 59,259–62,013 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes: Turkey, Syria Earthquake February 6 2024 160–2,000 2024 Enga landslide: Papua New Guinea Landslide May 24
5.0–5.9. 1,006. 4.0–4.9. 8,797. ← 2023. This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in significant damage and/or casualties. All dates are listed according to UTC time. The maximum intensities are based on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
Public holidays in Portugal. In Portugal, a public holiday (Portuguese: feriado) is a calendar date, legally recognised and defined in the Labour Code [1][2][3][4][5] as well as the Concordat of 2004, on which most businesses and non-essential services are closed. On some of these dates, public commemorative festivities are traditionally held.
40,000–50,000 deaths. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. [3] In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost completely destroyed ...
The 2024 Portugal wildfires are a series of more than 1,000 wildfires [1], at least 128 labeled as devastating, that spread through central and northern Portugal between 15 and 20 September 2024, burning more than 135,000 hectares of land, resulting in the deaths of at least seven people - amongst them were four firefighters -, the evacuation of several villages, and a response of over 5,000 ...