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The earthquake was preceded by foreshocks felt in and on 14th February Mars was conjunct with Rahu. All
Summerville, South Carolina, on August 27 and 28 these conjunctions resulted the 1893 Brisbane flood,
but, still, no one was prepared for the strength of the occasionally referred to as the Great Flood or the Black
August 31 quake. At 9:51 p.m., the rumbling began, and February flood. This occurred when the Brisbane River
it was felt as far away as Boston, Chicago and Cuba. burst its banks on three occasions in February 1893. It
There was damage to buildings as far away as Ohio was the occurrence of three major floods in the same
and Alabama too. It was Charleston, South Carolina, month that saw the period named ”Black February”.
though, that took the biggest hit from the quake, which There was also a fourth flood event later in the same
is thought to have had a magnitude of about 7.6 year in June. The river runs through the centre of
Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland, with
Next conjunction of Mars and Jupiter (Scorpio)
much of the population living in areas beside the river.
occurred on 10th September 1888 at 10.48.46 pm,
It was flooded in the first flood on 6th February due
in the early morning of 1st September 1888, an
to a deluge associated with a tropical cyclone, called
earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.0–7.3
”Buninyong”.
struck the Amuri district of North Canterbury,
On April 26, 1895 Mars became conjunct with
During 1890 on November 14th the conjunction of Jupiter (Gemini) and resulted in floods, with the
Mars with Jupiter (in Capricorn) occurred and prior river Danube, which wends its way through much of
to that conjunction during September Mars was Central and Southeastern Europe, reaching its highest
conjunct with Ketu and Sun conjunct with Saturn. level. Flooding in Serbia/Montenegro, Bulgaria and
All these conjunctions caused Nebraska in the early Romania inundated towns, villages and farmland,
1890s suffer from protracted drought, and farm prices forcing out thousands from their homes. The relatively
fell to new lows. Conditions were so unfavorable large territorial impact of the floods in March and April
that immigration, which had more than doubled 1895, affected not only the Danube and its tributaries,
the state‘s population in the 1880s, almost ceased. but also some neighboring basins. Catastrophic
Nebraska‘s population only increased by seven consequences of the flood were especially reported
thousand persons between 1890 and 1900. Some from the lower parts of the Danube River (from its
became so discouraged that they sold or gave up confluence with the Drava River up to the mouth of
their property and left the state. Nebraska is a state the Black Sea) and the tributaries of the Tisza and
that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern Sava rivers.
United States. The state is bordered by South Dakota
On 8th April 1895, there were heavy floods in north
to the north, Iowa to the east and Missouri to the
Queensland with the Daintree River rose 8 feet higher
southeast, both across the Missouri River, Kansas to
than ever known before.
the south, Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming
to the west. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state. During October 1899 Mars became conjunct with
Nebraska‘s area is just over 77,220 sq miles (200,000 Jupiter in (Libra) and with Rahu on December 1st
kms) with almost 1.9 million people. Its state capital and with Saturn on December 7th. The monsoon rains
is Lincoln, and its largest city is Omaha, which is on failed in central India. The drought parched crops
the Missouri River.) The 1890s were a testing time over an area of at least 1,230,000 square kilometers
throughout the eastern Australian colonies. Although (474,906 square miles), impacting almost 60 million
66% of population of New South Wales now lived in people. Food crops and livestock died as the drought
urban centers, the economy was heavily dependent on stretched into a second year, and soon people began to
agricultural exports. starve. The Indian Famine of 1899-1900 killed millions
of people - perhaps as many as 9 million in all.
On January 25th 1893 at 5:05:24 am the conjunction
of Mars with Jupiter (Pisces) occurred. Prior to that In 1910 on November 4th conjunction of Mars and
conjunction, Mars opposed Saturn on January 16th, Jupiter took place in Libra. Earlier to this day, except

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