Incidents on 16 December 2024
Monday, 16 December 2024 — 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 landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.
The Jeltoqsan riots erupt in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, in response to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of ethnic Kazakh Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, and his replacement with Gennady Kolbin, an ethnic Russian from the Russian SFSR.
A United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.
The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5Mw strikes Valdivia, Chile.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.