Incidents on 11 March 2023
Saturday, 11 March 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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The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.
An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people.
The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.