Incidents on 10 August 2020
Monday, 10 August 2020 — before continuous monitoring began on 9 August 2026. For this day we hold earthquakes from the USGS catalogue (magnitude 2.5 and above) and a few historical records, not a full record of every incident.
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Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
The 2001 Angola train attack occurs, causing 252 deaths.
A day after murdering actress Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths.
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