2019 Eastern Samar earthquake
The 2019 Eastern Samar Earthquake struck the islands of Visayas in the Philippines. It had a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a local magnitude of 6.2 with a max intensity of VI based on the PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale(PEIS).
Boris Yeltsin dies
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. After studying civil engineering at the Ural State Technical University, Boris Yeltsin worked in construction, rising to become head engineer of Construction Directorate Number 13. Yeltsin transformed Russia's command economy into a capitalist market economy by implementing economic shock therapy, market exchange rate of the ruble, nationwide privatization, and lifting of price controls.
Harry Bolton Seed died
Born in Bolton, England, Harry Bolton Seed was an educator, scholar, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He established a new research area, geotechnical earthquake engineering, with his pioneering works including the development of equivalent linear method (SHAKE) for seismic site response analysis, soil structure interaction analysis, evaluation and mitigation of soil liquefaction, etc. Seed received the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, from President Reagan in 1987.
Inauguration of the Corinth Canal construction
The Corinth Canal is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Being 6.4 kilometres (4 miles) long and 24.6 metres (80.7 feet) wide at sea level, the canal was dug through the Isthmus of Corinth at sea level and has no locks. The canal is crossed by a railway line, a road and a motorway at a height of about 45 metres (148 ft) and its almost vertical rock walls rise 90 metres (300 ft) above sea level.
