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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
List of disasters in Canada by death toll; List of disasters in Croatia by death toll; List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll; List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll; List of disasters in Poland by death toll; List of disasters in Romania by death toll; List of disasters in the United States by death toll
The earthquake also triggered the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. 22 February 2011. New Zealand. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, killing at least 180 people ...
2010 Haiti earthquake: January 12, 2010 3 87,587 7.9 China: 2008 Sichuan earthquake: May 12, 2008 4 87,351 7.6 Pakistan: 2005 Kashmir earthquake: October 8, 2005 5 62,013 7.8 Turkey, Syria: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes: February 6, 2023 6 34,000 [4] 6.6 Iran: 2003 Bam earthquake: December 26, 2003 7 20,085 7.7 India: 2001 Gujarat earthquake
Map of Turkey shows areas affected by huge earthquakes as death toll tops 5,000 ... just over 24 hours after a 7.8 magnitude tremor wreaked havoc in the worst earthquake to hit the country in more ...
Taiwan’s worst recent earthquake struck on Sept. 21, 1999, a magnitude 7.7 temblor that caused 2,400 deaths, injured around 100,000 and destroyed thousands of buildings.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.