Incidents on 1 January 2023
Sunday, 1 January 2023 — 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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A fire at a bar during New Year's Eve celebrations in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, kills 41 people and injures 116 others.
A 7.5 Mww earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan, killing more than 500 people and injuring over 1,000 others. A majority of direct deaths were due to collapsed homes.
At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.