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The 2017 Puebla earthquake, also known as 19S, struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with an estimated magnitude of 7.1 Mw and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicenter was about 55 km (34 mi) south of the city of Puebla, Mexico. The earthquake caused damage in the Mexican states of Puebla and Morelos and in the Greater ...
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into Two World Trade Center (South Tower) at 9:03 AM EDT. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. Killing at least 2,700 people at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, it is the deadliest terrorist attack in history. 2001 Indian Parliament attack.
The first Coroner's Inquests opened on 23 August 2017 [129] and all other inquests were opened by 23 November 2017. [ 130 ] In the aftermath of the fire, members of the local community, including a residents' group called Grenfell United, [ 131 ] [ 132 ] [ 133 ] stated that the official figures were far short of existing estimates, with some ...
The 2017–2018 North Korea crisis was a period of heightened tension between North Korea and the United States throughout 2017. The crisis began early in 2017 when North Korea conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests that demonstrated the country's ability to launch ballistic missiles beyond its immediate region, suggesting their nuclear weapons capability was developing at a faster ...
Locations of conflicts worldwide in 2018. Major wars, 10,000+ deaths in 2018. Wars, 1,000–9,999 deaths in 2018. Minor conflicts, 100–999 deaths in 2018. Skirmishes and clashes, fewer than 100 deaths in 2018. ← 2017 2019 →. The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2018. Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 15 ...
Veshkayma, Ulyanovsk Oblast. Russia. 3. 1. F. Ruslan Akhtyamov, 26. No. Suicide. The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties).
Unknown. On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people [a] and wounding at least 413.