The 1755 Lisbonearthquake, also known as the Great Lisbonearthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of...
The 1761 Lisbonearthquake and its subsequent tsunami occurred in the north Atlantic Ocean and south of the Iberian Peninsula. This violent shock which...
of Lisbon that survived the 1755 Lisbonearthquake: many place-names are derived from Arabic and the Alfama (the oldest existing district of Lisbon) was...
The 1531 Lisbonearthquake occurred in the Kingdom of Portugal on the morning of 26 January 1531, between 4 and 5 o'clock. The earthquake and subsequent...
November 1755, at around 14:00. The waves were caused by the 1755 Lisbonearthquake. The tsunami took almost four hours to reach the UK. The tsunami was...
Earthquake Information PORTUGAL: LISBON". www.ngdc.noaa.gov. Retrieved February 1, 2021. Hough S.E. (2013). "Missing great earthquakes". Journal of Geophysical...
Baixa is an elegant district, primarily constructed after the 1755 Lisbonearthquake. It takes its name from Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis...
city, it is the seat of the Patriarchate of Lisbon. Built in 1147, the cathedral has survived many earthquakes and has been modified, renovated and restored...
Site in 1983. The 1755 Lisbonearthquake, in combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. Sebastião...
powers of the time. By the early 19th century, events such as the 1755 Lisbonearthquake, the country's occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the resulting...
retrieved 2017-07-21, NUREG/CR-1457. Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science From Lisbon to Richter (University of Chicago Press; 2012) 348...
early 19th century, Portugal adopted mean solar time. Navy (located in Lisbon) and Coimbra Astronomical Observatories calculated solar time to be used...
Pombaline architecture in Lisbon following the 1755 Lisbonearthquake and Sicilian Baroque in Sicily following the 1693 earthquake. In the Spanish East Indies...
"The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 LisbonEarthquake. Discussion Paper 06/03, Centre for Historical Economics and Related...
Maria Maior, municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. The medieval convent was ruined during the sequence of the 1755 Lisbonearthquake, and the destroyed Gothic...
have been a remotely triggered event from the 1755 Lisbonearthquake or its aftershocks. The earthquake took place on November 18, 1755, at approximately...
Megathrust earthquakes occur at convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another. The earthquakes are caused by slip...
alkaline basalts. Modern seismologists who studied the cause of the 1755 Lisbonearthquake and the resulting tsunami initially suspected a displacement in the...
generated by major earthquakes such as the 1755 Lisbonearthquake, 1960 Valdivia earthquake, 1964 Alaska earthquake, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, 2011 Tohoku...
other things, a deadly earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 and a Spanish-French invasion of Portugal in 1762. The Lisbonearthquake allowed the Marquis of Pombal...
Propaganda da Ditadura) was created. The Police of Information of Porto and Lisbon were merged on 17 March. Carmona organized a Presidential election on 25...
after the previous third level, Almohad, was damaged by the 1755 Lisbonearthquake. Rebuilding of the third level was made by Brusselian military engineer...
of Luz was a small centre. By the 18th century, following the 1755 Lisbonearthquake, the region was decimated, and many of its residents abandoned the...
injuries. It is the largest earthquake to hit Portugal since the 1755 Lisbonearthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake lies within a diffuse zone of...
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