What the records say
- When
- 9 Oct 1790
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Where
- Algeria
- Coordinates
- 35.70° N, 0.60° W
- Deaths
- 3000
- Intensity mmi
- 10
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least 3,000 people die in Algeria when an earthquake and tsunami strikes the city of Oran”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 6,5 sacude Argelia provocando un pequeño tsunami que deja cerca de 3.000 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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