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   Submarine earthquake

   A submarine earthquake is an earthquake which occurs underwater at the bed of the sea. ... The different ways in which tectonic plates rub against each other under the ocean or sea floor to create submarine earthquakes.
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   Historic tsunamis

   28 February 1969 - A submarine earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Ritcher Scale, with its epicentre of the coast of Portugal, caused a tsunami that hit Northern Portugal, parts of Spain, and Morocco.
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   November 18

   1929 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
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   Yonaguni

   On May 4, 1998, a part of the island was destroyed by a submarine earthquake.
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   Bay of Bengal

   Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and Asian Tsunami was a result of the pressure at this zone causing a submarine earthquake which then resulted in a huge Tsunamai.
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   Pasni City

   On 28 Nov, 1945, a tsunami, triggered by a submarine earthquake (7.8 Richter), completely destroyed Pasni town.
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   1929 in science

   November 18 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.
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   1929

   November 18 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28 (as of 1997, Canada's most lethal earthquake).
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   Bashi Channel

   In December 2006, a magnitude 6.7 submarine earthquake cut several undersea cables at the same time, causing a major communications bottleneck that lasted several weeks.
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    2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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• Submarine earthquake,
• Historic tsunamis,
• November 18,
• Yonaguni,
• Bay of Bengal,
• Pasni City,
• 1929 in science,
• 1929,
• Bashi Channel,
• 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake