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This is a list of disasters in China by death toll. ... Huaxian earthquake: Shaanxi: 100,000+ [2] 16 December 1920: Haiyuan earthquake: Ningxia: 265,000 [3] 27 July 1976:
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the worst in California's history. The death toll was between 700 and 3,000. The death toll was between 700 and 3,000. The subsequent fire resulted in much of the destruction and death toll. 28,188 homes were destroyed. $400 million in damage costs were reported.
Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date 1. 242,419 –655,000 [44] 1976 Tangshan earthquake: China July 28, 1976: 2. 110,000−316,000: 2010 Haiti earthquake: Haiti: January 12, 2010: 3. 250,000 –300,000 [10] 526 Antioch earthquake: Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) May 526: 4. 273,407 [13] 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: Ningxia, Republic of China ...
The most recent earthquake with a death toll of more than a thousand was the 2010 Yushu earthquake, which killed 2,968. The collision of India with the rest of Asia has led to seismic activity throughout Western China, particularly in Tibet and the Yunnan, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces.
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.
The death toll was the highest since an August 2014 quake that killed 617 people in southwest China's Yunnan province. The country's deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck one of China's poorest regions just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 126 people, injuring hundreds and bringing down mud houses in ...
For a given epidemic or pandemic, the average of its estimated death toll range is used for ranking. If the death toll averages of two or more epidemics or pandemics are equal, then the smaller the range, the higher the rank. For the historical records of major changes in the world population, see world population. [3]