Incidents on 30 July 2025
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 — 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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Around 50,000 Moroccan nationals storm the borders of Spanish enclaves in Africa, principally the city of Ceuta. As of August 1, 2026, 67 are confirmed to have died while crossing.
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.
Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills several people and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is destroyed by a fire.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.