Incidents on 20 February 2021
Saturday, 20 February 2021 — 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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In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
A cooking gas cylinder explodes on board an Egyptian National Railways train in El Ayyat, causing a fire and killing over 370 people.
An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H2S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.