Incidents on 15 February 2023
Wednesday, 15 February 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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Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico, kills 250.
The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing about 274 of the ship's roughly 354 crew. The disaster pushes the United States to declare war on Spain.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.