| EARTHQUAKES |
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| The Ten Largest Earthquakes of the 20th Century |
| Chile Prince William Sound, Alaska Andreanof Isles, Aleutian Is. Kamchatka Off the coast of Ecuador Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands India-China border Kamchatka Banda Sea, Indonesia Kuril Islands |
| LOCATION |
| DATE |
| May 22, 1960 March 28, 1964 March 9, 1957 Nov. 4, 1952 Jan. 31, 1906 Feb. 4, 1965 Aug. 15, 1950 Feb. 3, 1923 Feb. 1, 1938 Oct. 13, 1963 |
| MAGNITUDE |
| 9.5 9.2 9.1 9.0 8.8 8.7 8.6 8.5 8.5 8.5 |
| “It is a bitter and humiliating thing to see works, which have cost men so much time and labour, overthrown in one minute . . ." -- Charles Darwin, March 1835 (reporting the ruin of Concepción in Chile, by an earthquake) |
| LOCATION Shansi, China Tangshan, China Aleppo, Syria Xining, China Damghan, Iran Gansu, China Ardabil, Iran Kwanto, Japan Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Messina, Italy Chihli, China Shemakha, Caucasia Tabriz, Iran Lisbon, Portugal Gansu, China Peru Silicia, Asia Minor Sicily, Italy Quetta, Pakistan Calabria, Italy Iran |
| DATE Jan. 23, 1556 July 27, 1976 Aug. 9, 1138 May 22, 1927 Dec. 22, 856 Dec. 16, 1920 Mar. 23, 893 Sept. 1, 1923 Oct. 5, 1948 Dec. 28, 1908 Sept. 1290 Nov. 1667 Nov. 18, 1727 Nov. 1, 1755 Dec. 25, 1932 May 31, 1970 Unknown 1268 Jan. 11, 1693 May 30, 1935 Feb. 4, 1783 June 20, 1990 |
| DEATHS 830,000 255,000 230,000 200,000 200,000 200,000 150,000 143,000 110,000 100,000 100,000 80,000 77,000 70,000 70,000 66,000 60,000 60,000 <60,000 50,000 50,000 |
| The Twenty Deadliest Earthquakes in History |
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