Lists of earthquakes
Template:Use mdy dates Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history. Below, earthquakes are listed by period, region or country, year, magnitude, cost, fatalities, and number of scientific studies.
Deadliest earthquakes
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| Event | Date | Location | Fatalities | MagnTemplate:Soft hyphenitude | Notes on fatalities |
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| 1976 Tangshan earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Hebei, China | 300,000+[4] | 7.6 | Internal Tangshan reports found 263,299 local deaths. Official nationwide deaths stated to be 242,769. Scholars estimated >300,000.[4][5] |
| 1920 Haiyuan earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Ningxia–Gansu, China | 273,400 | 7.8 | Previously cited death toll was 230,000 and this figure was revised in 2010.[6][7] |
| 526 Antioch earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Antioch, Byzantine Empire (modern-day Turkey) | 250,000[8] | 7.0[9] | Procopius (II.14.6), sources based on John of Ephesus. |
| 1139 Ganja earthquake | Template:Dts | Ganja, Seljuk Empire (modern-day Template:Sort flagicon Azerbaijan) | 230,000–300,000[10] | 7.0 Template:M | 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 | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Sumatra, Indonesia | 227,898 | 9.2 | Death toll includes those missing and presumed dead.[10] |
| 1303 Hongdong earthquake | Template:Dts | Shanxi, Yuan dynasty (modern-day Template:Sort flagicon China) | 200,000[12] | 8.0 | |
| 856 Damghan earthquake | Template:Dts | Damghan, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Template:Sort flagicon Iran) | 200,000 | 7.9 Ms | |
| 1138 Aleppo earthquake | Template:Dts | Aleppo, Seljuk Empire (modern-day Template:Sort flagicon Syria) | 130,000–230,000[13] | 7.1[13] | The figure of 230,000 dead is based on a historical conflation of this earthquake with earthquakes in November 1137 on the Jazira plain and the 1139 Ganja earthquake in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja. The first mention of a 230,000 death toll was by Ibn Taghribirdi in the fifteenth century.[11] |
| 533 Aleppo earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Aleppo, Byzantine Empire (modern-day Syria) | 130,000[14] | Unknown | |
| 1948 Ashgabat earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR (modern-day Turkmenistan) | 110,000 | 7.3 Template:M | Previously cited death toll was 10,000 until a news release on December 9, 1988, advised that the correct death toll was 110,000.[10] |
| 1923 Great Kantō earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Kantō region, Japan | 105,385[15] | 7.9 | Casualty estimates range from 100,000 to 142,800, the latter figure including 40,000 missing later presumed dead. |
| 1556 Shaanxi earthquake | Template:Dts | Shaanxi, China | 100,000 | 8.0 | Direct deaths thought to be just over 100,000 while about 730,000 people died from famines or migrated elsewhere.[16][17][18][19] |
| 2010 Haiti earthquake | Template:Dts | Template:Sort flagicon Haiti | 46,000–316,000 | 7.0 | Estimates vary from 316,000 (Haitian government) to 222,570 (UN OCHA estimate)[20] to 158,000 (Medicine, Conflict and Survival) to between 46,000 and 85,000 (report commissioned by USAID).[21][22] |
| 1290 Zhili earthquake | Template:Dts | Ningcheng, Yuan dynasty (modern-day Template:Sort flagicon China) | 7,000–100,000 | 6.8 Template:M | Estimates also suggests lower values of at least 7,000.[23] |
Deadliest earthquakes by year since 1929
Strongest earthquakes by magnitude
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For those which occurred before the development and deployment of seismographs – starting around 1900 – magnitudes are estimated from historical reports of the extent and severity of damage.[32]
Pre-instrumental earthquakes
Strongest earthquakes by magnitude each year since 1907
Strongest earthquakes by magnitude by country/territory
- This list is a work in progress. Information is likely to be changed.
- The list refers to current country boundaries rather than those at the date of the earthquake.
- Please note, multiple countries could have the same earthquake listed, such as the 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake being listed for both Ecuador and Colombia.
- Unless otherwise noted, magnitudes are reported on the Moment magnitude scale (Mw).
Costliest earthquakes
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This is the top ten major earthquakes by the US dollar value of property (public and private) losses directly attributable to the earthquake.
Most studied earthquakes
The 50 most studied earthquakes according to the International Seismological Centre (ISC), based on a count of scientific papers (mostly in English) that discuss that earthquake. The "Event #" is linked to the ISC Event Bibliography for that event.
Modified from figure 2, "The most studied events", at the ISC's Overview of the ISC Event Bibliography.
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Lists by time period
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Lists by location
By country
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Fiji
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guam
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- Haiti
- Iceland
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- Indonesia
- Iran
- Italy
- Japan
- Kosovo
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
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- Russia
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Slovenia
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- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Turkey
- United States
- Vanuatu
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By region
See also
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- List of deadly earthquakes since 1900
- List of historical earthquakes
- List of megathrust earthquakes
- List of natural disasters by death toll
References
External links
- USGS-ANSS Latest earthquakes around the world
- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
- IRIS Seismic Monitor, Recent earthquakes around the world
- SeismoArchives, Seismogram Archives of Significant Earthquakes of the World
- Recent New Zealand earthquakes
- Database for the damage of world earthquake, ancient period (3000 BC) to year of 2006—Building Research Institute (Japan)
- 20 Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900, USGS
- Historic Worldwide Earthquakes, magnitude 6.0 and greater, sorted by magnitude, USGS (archived 2009)
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