The 2010s

Explore 1208 historical events from 2010–2019.

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2013

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The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to t…

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2013 start of the gezi park protests in turkey
2013

Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey

A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by out…

Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey