A 7.8 earthquake hit Flores Island in Indonesia, which caused an 82-foot tsunami, killing about 2,500 people.
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A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
A massive earthquake strikes Chile.
The third-strongest recorded earthquake in US history happened in Southern California.
An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale rocks the city of Tabas in Iran.
An earthquake struck Valdivia, south-central Chile, which caused a tsunami that damaged Hawaii, French Polynesia, and Japan.
