Date in year · 1946 · The 1940s
On November 10, 1946, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people. Hayley Mills, Tim Curry, Steven L. Bennett would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · November 10, 1946
The 1946 Ancash earthquake occurred in the High Andes mountains of central Peru on November 10 at 12:43 PET. 0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The intraplate shock was caused by normal faulting along a pre-existing thrust fault within the mountains, and produced a 21 km (13 mi) zone of surface rupture.
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1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
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The 1946 Ancash earthquake occurred in the High Andes mountains of central Peru on November 10 at 12:43 PET. 0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The intraplate shock was caused by normal faulting along a pre-existing thrust fault within the mountains, and produced a 21 km (13 mi) zone of surface rupture.
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