On July 18th...
M4.2 - Armenia, 1997
About 5,000 houses damaged in the Noyemberyan area, Armenia. Felt (III) at Tbilisi, Georgia.
M5.6 - Serbia-Romania Border, 1991
At least 615 houses damaged (VIII) in the Orsova area. Landslides occurred in the epicentral area. Felt strongly in western Romania and (IV) in northwestern Bulgaria. Also felt in southeastern Hungary and in parts of Yugoslavia.
M7.3 - Bo Hai, China, 1969
The workers of the Tientsin zoo began participating in earthquake forecasting in 1968. On the morning of July 18, 1969, they discovered unusual behavior in many kinds of animals was arousing attention (the swans abruptly left the water, a Manchurian tiger stopped pacing in his cage, a Tibetan yak collapsed, and a panda held its head in its paws and moaned). After collecting these reports they realized that, as well as other factors that might have caused this unusual behavior, it might be a precursor to an earthquake. They felt it was timely to make a report to the city's Earthquake Office. At noon of that day, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred at Pohai.
Abridged from Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volume 10, Number 2.
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