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List of earthquakes

The following is a list of major earthquakes:

Date	Site	Deaths	Magnitude in Richter	Comments
464 BC	Sparta, Greece	?	–	Led to a helot uprising and strained relations with Athens, one of the factors that led to the Peloponnesian War
226 BC	Rhodes, Greece	?	–	Destroyed Colossus of Rhodes and city of Kameiros
365	Cyrene, Libya	?	–
526 - May 20	Antiochia, Syria	250,000	–
856	Corinth, Greece	45,000	–
1268	Cilicia, Asia Minor	60,000	–
1290 - September 27	Chihli, China	100,000	–
1556 - January 23	Shaanxi and Kansu, China	850,000	9.0	The most devastating earthquake in history
1667 - November 23	Caucaso and Shemakha, Italy	80,000	–
1692 - June 7	Port Royal, Jamaica	1,000-3,000	–	Destroyed and submerged most of Port Royal; see that article for more.
1693 - January 11	Catania, Italy	60,000	–
1730 - December 30	Hokkaido, Japan	137,000	–
1737 - October 11	Calcutta, India	300,000	–
1755 - November 1	Lisbon, Portugal	60,000	8.0	mentioned by Voltaire in Candide See: 1755 Lisbon earthquake
1811-1812 - December 16--February 7	New Madrid, Missouri, United States	hundreds	8.0	U.S. Geological Survey[1]
1822 - September 5	Echigo, Japan	30,000	–
1855	Wellington, New Zealand	1	8.2
1857 - January 9	Fort Tejon, California, USA	1	7.9	350 kilometers of the San Andreas Fault ruptured
1868 - August 13-15	Ecuador and Peru	40,000	–
1872 - March 26	Lone Pine, California,USA	27	7.6	See: 1872 Lone Pine earthquake
1884 - April 22	Colchester, England	1	5.2	The UK's most destructive eathquake
1887 - February 23	French Riviera	2,000	–
1887 - May 3	Sonora, Mexico	42	7.4
1905 - April 4	Kangra, India	370,000.
1906 - April 18	San Francisco, California, USA		7.9	See: San Francisco earthquake of 1906
1908 - December 27	Messina, Italy	86,926	7.5
1920 - December 16	Gansu, China	100,000	8.6
1923 - September 1	Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan	200,000	8.3	see Great Kanto Earthquake
1925 - June 29	Santa Barbara, California	?	6.3	Santa Barbara earthquakes
1927 - May 22	Nan-Shan, China	200,000	8.3
1931	Managua, Nicaragua
1931 - February 3	Napier, New Zealand	258	7.9	see Napier earthquake
1932 - December 26	Kansu, China	70,000	7.6
1935 - May 31	Quetta, India	50,000	7.5
1948	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	86,926	7.5
1949 - April 13	Olympia, Washington	8	7.1	See Nisqually Earthquake
1949 - August 5	Ecuador	6,000	na
1953 - August 12	Kefalonia, Greece	476	7.3	Destroyed most of the island, major damage on Zante and Lefkas.
1958 - July 10	Alaskan Panhandle	5	7.9	Resulting landslide triggered largest-ever recorded water wave at Lituya Bay, Alaska.
1960 - February 29	Agadir, Morocco	15,000	6.7	Almost completely destroyed Agadir.
1960 - May 22	Chile	1,500	9.5	Known as the Great Chilean Earthquake; most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Tsunamis caused deaths as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1964	Anchorage, Alaska, USA	125	9.2	Most powerful earthquake in U.S. history, known as the Good Friday Earthquake
1965 - April 29	Seattle, Washington	?	6.5	See Nisqually Earthquake
1966	Tashkent, Uzbekistan		-
1968	Sicily, Italy; Gibellina, Belice		-
1970 - May 31	Northern Peru	66,794	7.7
1972 - December 23	Managua, Nicaragua	10,000		the city was almost completely destroyed
1976 - July 28	Tangshan, China	400,000	8.2
1977 - March 4	southern and eastern Europe, Romania	1,50
1980 - November 23	southern Italy	4,800	6.8-7.0
1985 - September 19	Mexico City, Mexico	~10,000	8.1	Devastated a significant part of the city. Worst disaster in Mexico City's history. The epicenter was located in the coasts of Michoacán.
1985 - September 20	Mexico City, Mexico	hundreds	7.6	Second earthquake in two days; caused massive hysteria and more deaths
1986 - October 10	San Salvador, El Salvador	~1,500	7.5
1988 - December 7	North-Western Armenia	25,000	6.9
1989 - October 17	Loma Prieta (Santa Cruz) California	63	7.1	Caused the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland, California, and damage to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Largest quake on the San Andreas Fault since the 1906 San Francisco quake. See Loma Prieta earthquake.
1990 - June 20	North-Western Iran	50,000	7.7
1990 - July 16	Philippines	1600	7.7
1992 - March 13	Eastern Turkey	~540	6.8
1993 - September 29	Maharashtra, India	9,748	6.4
1994 - January 17	Northridge (Los Angeles), California, USA	57	6.7	Most financially damaging quake in US history. See: 1994 Northridge Earthquake
1995 - January 17	Kobe, Osaka, and Kyoto, Japan	5,477	7.2	called the Great Hanshin earthquake, the quake lasted 20 seconds and left 275,000 people homeless
1995 - May 28	Neftegorsk, Russia	~2,000	7.6	Killed 2/3rd of the town's population
1997 - May 10-11	Northern Iran	4,000	7.5
1998 - February 4-8	Takhar, Afghanistan	2,323	6.1
1998 - May 30	Afghanistan	4,700	6.9
1999 - August 17	Turkey	15,000	7.8
1999 - September 20	Taiwan	2,474	7.6
2000 - February 13	El Salvador	400	6.6
2001 - January 13	El Salvador	5,000	7.7
2001 - January 26	Gujarat, India	20,103	7.7
2001 - February 28	Olympia, Washington	0	6.8	Some damage to older buildings, masonry, and roads, but no deaths. See Nisqually Earthquake
2001 - June 23	Southern Peru	10s; many old buildings	7.9
2002 - November 3	Central Alaska	0	7.9	Sparsely populated area; damage to structures/roads but no serious injuries
2003 - May 21	Algeria	2,000	6.8
2003 - September 25	Hokkaido, Japan	1	8.0	The 1 person killed was a pedestrian hit by a car while sweeping broken glass. 300+ injured
2003 - December 26	Bam, southwestern Iran	40,000 or more	6.6	Nearly 75% of city levelled to the ground, 40,000 lives lost and 15,000 injured.
0628 GMT - 2004 - February 24	295 kilometres east-North-east of Rabat, Morocco near the city of Al-Hoceima	564	6.5	300+ injured. 30,000 homeless. Most killed are women and children as many local men work overseas
1:54 AM local time - 2004 - April 6	Hindu Kush mountains, northeast Afghanistan	At least 1	6.8	Death toll may be higher

The Richter scale was adopted in 1935, and was used in the above table also about earlier earthquakes at a merely indicative title. Earthquakes' effects were once measured after the Mercalli scale, which regards the practical damages that a seismic event causes to infrastructures and houses, and a sort of comparison between the two scale is now in use, especially for ancient events.

Related articles

• Southeastern U.S. earthquakes of 2003

External link

• USGS list of current earthquakes
• Recent New Zealand earthquakes

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