Incidents on 26 December 2024
Thursday, 26 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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Three people are killed when a 14-year-old opens fire on civilians at a Texaco convenience store in Garland, Texas.
A violent EF-4 tornado hits Garland, Texas, killing nine and injuring almost 500 others.
Two earthquakes in Hengchun, Taiwan measuring 7.0 and 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale kill two and disrupt telecommunications across Asia.
The 9.1–9.3 Mw Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis, it affected coastal and partially mainland areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is estimated at 2
The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.
The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills 72 people, including the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.