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18 December in the archive

149 records carry this date, the earliest is from 1852, the latest 2025. Everything links out to where the original sits. A date on a record is the record’s own fact, these are leads, same standing as the shelf.

In the archive

The feed’s ledger holds 1,346 reports filed on this date, 2015 through 2025, from 22 that first year. The two counts measure different things, 149 records are dated this day on the shelf, while the ledger counts what the feed had filed on it.

Filed on 18 December, newest first, dates somebody filed, not dates anything happened:

The ground has shaken on this date too, GeoNet’s catalogue holds 3 magnitude-3+ quakes recorded on 18 December, the biggest a M3.4 (5 km deep) in 2011. The whole sequence is counted at /sequence, the story in plain language.

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