This month is the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bicentennial of the beginning of the U.S. New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812. Neither of these events are related except for the fact that their 20th and 200th anniversaries coincide.
On this day (December 17) in 1991, a spokesperson for Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced that the Soviet Union would cease to exist by January 1, 1992. As it turned out, the USSR dissolved completely by December 26, 1991, breaking up into fifteen independent countries.
On December 16, 1811 magnitude 7.7 and magnitude 7.0 earthquakes struck New Madrid, a town in southeast Missouri. Two additional major earthquakes followed shortly thereafter: a magnitude 7.5 on January 23, 1812 and a magnitude 7.7 on February 7, 1812. The earthquakes caused damage throughout the Midwest and were felt over the entire eastern United States, waking people in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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