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1802 Vrancea earthquake

1802 CE · Europe · Disaster

The 1802 Vrancea earthquake occurred in the Vrancea Mountains of today's Romania on 26 October [O. S. 14 October] 1802, on St. Paraskeva's Day. With an estimated intensity of 7. 9 on the moment magnitude scale, it is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Romania and one of the strongest in European history.

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