A Invasão de Granada foi há 43 anos

Rangers do Exército dos Estados Unidos saltam de paraquedas em Granada durante a Operação Fúria Urgente

Data	25 de outubro – 2 de novembro de 1983 (8 dias)
Local	Granada
Desfecho	Vitória dos Estados Unidos e de seus aliados
Beligerantes
Estados Unidos Oposição Granadina Aliados:  Antígua e Barbuda  Barbados Dominica  Jamaica Santa Lúcia São Vicente e Granadinas Organização dos Estados Americanos Governo Revolucionário de Granada  Cuba Conselheiros militares:  União Soviética  Alemanha Oriental Coreia do Norte Líbia
Comandantes
Ronald Reagan Vice-almirante Joseph Metcalf III Major-general Norman Schwarzkopf Nicholas Brathwaite Hudson Austin   Pedro Tórtolo
Forças
7 300 soldados OEA: 353 combatentes ~1 500 soldados 722 soldados
Baixas
19 mortos e 116 feridos 45 mortos e 358 feridos 24 mortos (dos quais dois eram militares profissionais), 59 feridos e 638 capturados
24–67 civis mortos (18 dos quais no bombardeio acidental de um hospital psiquiátrico pela Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos)

A Invasão de Granada (nome de código: Operação Fúria Urgente) foi uma invasão da nação insular de Granada por forças militares dos Estados Unidos e outros países, em resposta a um golpe de estado liderado pelo vice-primeiro-ministro Bernard Coard, que depôs o então primeiro-ministro granadino, Maurice Bishop, posteriormente executado.

Em 25 de outubro de 1983, os Estados Unidos, Barbados, Jamaica e membros da Organização de Estados das Caraíbas Orientais desembarcaram navios em Granada, derrotaram a resistência granadina e derrubaram o governo de Coard. O dia 25 de outubro é um dia de festa nacional em Granada, chamada Dia de Ação de Graças, para comemorar este acontecimento.

 

 

Um helicóptero americano CH-53D pousando ao lado de uma metralhadora ZU-23-2 abandonada pelos granadinos

 

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Um terramoto arrasou a antiga capital da Jamaica há 334 anos

Old map of Port Royal

  

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on June 7. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbor in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m. Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica, and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the West Indies. It was known both as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and "one of the wickedest places on earth", being a common home port for the many privateers and pirates operating within the Caribbean Sea. The earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level and about 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami. About 3,000 people died in the days following the earthquakes due to injuries and disease.

   

Map of Port Royal showing shorelines before and after the earthquake

      

The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate. Jamaica was formed by uplift associated with a restraining bend along this strike-slip structure. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes around Jamaica are primarily sinistral strike-slip along WSW-ENE trending faults and minor reverse or thrust motion on NW-SE trending faults. The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.

  

The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it

    
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Um sismo arrasou a antiga capital da Jamaica há 333 anos

Old map of Port Royal

  

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on June 7. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbor in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m. Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica, and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the West Indies. It was known both as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and "one of the wickedest places on earth", being a common home port for the many privateers and pirates operating within the Caribbean Sea. The earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level and about 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami. About 3,000 people died in the days following the earthquakes due to injuries and disease.

   

Map of Port Royal showing shorelines before and after the earthquake

      

The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate. Jamaica was formed by uplift associated with a restraining bend along this strike-slip structure. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes around Jamaica are primarily sinistral strike-slip along WSW-ENE trending faults and minor reverse or thrust motion on NW-SE trending faults. The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.

  

The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it

    
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Sismo entre o golfo do México e as Caraíbas...

 

 Sismo de magnitude 7,5 no Mar das Caraíbas. Doze países estiveram em alerta para tsunami

 

Sismo de 7,6 atinge Mar das Caraíbas. Foi emitido alerta de tsunami

 

Um sismo arrasou a antiga capital da Jamaica há 332 anos

Old map of Port Royal

  

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on June 7. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbor in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m. Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica, and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the West Indies. It was known both as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and "one of the wickedest places on earth", being a common home port for the many privateers and pirates operating within the Caribbean Sea. The earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level and about 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami. About 3,000 people died in the days following the earthquakes due to injuries and disease.

   

Map of Port Royal showing shorelines before and after the earthquake

      

The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate. Jamaica was formed by uplift associated with a restraining bend along this strike-slip structure. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes around Jamaica are primarily sinistral strike-slip along WSW-ENE trending faults and minor reverse or thrust motion on NW-SE trending faults. The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.

  

The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it

    
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Um terramoto destruiu a antiga capital da Jamaica há 331 anos

Old map of Port Royal

  

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on June 7. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbor in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m. Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica, and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the West Indies. It was known both as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and "one of the wickedest places on earth", being a common home port for the many privateers and pirates operating within the Caribbean Sea. The earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level and about 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami. About 3,000 people died in the days following the earthquakes due to injuries and disease.

   

Map of Port Royal showing shorelines before and after the earthquake

      

The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate. Jamaica was formed by uplift associated with a restraining bend along this strike-slip structure. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes around Jamaica are primarily sinistral strike-slip along WSW-ENE trending faults and minor reverse or thrust motion on NW-SE trending faults. The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.

  

The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it

    
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A antiga capital da Jamaica foi arrasada por um sismo há 330 anos

Old map of Port Royal

  

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on June 7. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbor in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m. Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica, and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the West Indies. It was known both as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and "one of the wickedest places on earth", being a common home port for the many privateers and pirates operating within the Caribbean Sea. The earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level and about 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami. About 3,000 people died in the days following the earthquakes due to injuries and disease.

   

Map of Port Royal showing shorelines before and after the earthquake

      

The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate. Jamaica was formed by uplift associated with a restraining bend along this strike-slip structure. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes around Jamaica are primarily sinistral strike-slip along WSW-ENE trending faults and minor reverse or thrust motion on NW-SE trending faults. The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.

  

The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it

    
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Um sismo arrasou e fez desaparecer a antiga capital da Jamaica há 329 anos

Old map of Port Royal

  

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica on June 7. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbor in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m. Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica, and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the West Indies. It was known both as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and "one of the wickedest places on earth", being a common home port for the many privateers and pirates operating within the Caribbean Sea. The earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level and about 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami. About 3,000 people died in the days following the earthquakes due to injuries and disease.

Map of Port Royal showing shorelines before and after the earthquake

  

The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean Plate and the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate. Jamaica was formed by uplift associated with a restraining bend along this strike-slip structure. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes around Jamaica are primarily sinistral strike-slip along WSW-ENE trending faults and minor reverse or thrust motion on NW-SE trending faults. The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.

  

The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it

    
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