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The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.
Death toll may have been a historical conflation with earthquakes on November 1137 in the Jazira plain and the 1138 Aleppo earthquake. [11] 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: December 26, 2004: Sumatra, Indonesia: 227,898: 9.1–9.3: Death toll includes those missing and presumed dead. [10] 1303 Hongdong earthquake: July 25, 1303
1 Ten deadliest natural disasters by highest estimated death toll ... Only 2 cases in recorded history. ... World's worst natural disasters since 1900; Earthquake ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...
Early Wednesday morning, a powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, killing over 1,000 people and leaving more than 1,500 injured while many people were sleeping, officials told Bakhtar ...
The 2021 Haiti earthquake was the country's largest earthquake in its modern history. The June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake caused severe destruction and many villages were destroyed. The 2022 West Java earthquake killed hundreds and destroyed tens of thousands of houses, despite its moderate magnitude.
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) occurred on 22 May 1960. Most studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale , [ 1 ] while some studies have placed the magnitude lower than 9.4.
One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, ... The magnitude-9.1 earthquake of Dec. 26, ... beach resort tourists comprised about half of the nation’s death toll of 5,000, while ...