Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami
October 11, 1737
A massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula generated tsunamis that swept across the northern Pacific, destroying Cossack settlements on the coast and reaching the Kuril Islands. Russia's newly mapped eastern frontier had revealed a landscape of volcanic fury. The quake was among the largest ever recorded in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.