Incidents on 20 May 2023
Saturday, 20 May 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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An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
A major earthquake hits Syria, widely felt between Sicily and Iraq.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.