Daily Archives for 18 October 2013


October 18: The Earth Moves and a Town is Destroyed

On 18 October 1356, Basel, a town near the Upper Rhine Graben in Switzerland, was destroyed by a massive earthquake. By most experts, it was believed to be the worse earthquake to happen in Central Europe in recorded history and would have registered a 7.1 on the Richter scale. According to the Swiss Seismological Service […]