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Earthquakes (6.0+ M w) between 1900 and 2017 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.
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by discoveries of Earth's tectonic plates, [1] seismotomography imaging technique, [2] observations using space satellites from outer space, [3] artificial intelligence (AI)-based ...
1960 Concepción earthquakes: 22 May 1960 15:11 (local time) Valdivia, Chile: 6,000 9.5 M w [37] The largest earthquake in recorded history. 1960 Valdivia earthquake: 13 October 1963 15:17 (local time) Kuril Islands, USSR (present-day Russia) 0 8.5 M w [38] One of the largest earthquake in recorded history. 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake: 27 ...
The Aleutian Trench, of the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, where the North American plate overrides the Pacific plate, has generated many major earthquakes throughout history, several of which generated Pacific-wide tsunamis, [22] including the 1964 Alaska earthquake; at magnitude 9.1–9.2, it remains the largest recorded ...
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.
see 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes: 44.800 11.192 7 6.0 M w (USGS) Centred 36 km NNW of Bologna, Italy, at a depth of 5.1 km. [46] May 22, 2012 00:00 Bulgaria see 2012 Pernik earthquake: 42.686 23.009 1 5.6 M w (USGS) Centred 24 km west of SOFIA, Bulgaria, at a depth of 9.4 km. [47] May 29, 2012 07:00 Northern Italy see 2012 Northern Italy ...
see 2000 Banggai Islands earthquake: −1.105 123.573 46 7.6 M w USGS June 4, 2000: 23:30 Sumatra, Indonesia see 2000 Enggano earthquake: 4.72 102.08 103 7.9 M w: USGS July 7, 2000: 13:30 Masaya, Nicaragua see 2000 Nicaragua earthquake: 11.884 −85.988 7 5.4 M w [101] November 16, 2000: 04:54 New Ireland, Papua New Guinea see 2000 New Ireland ...
The last year of World War II was dominated by two events which caused the vast bulk of the death toll. In January, over 2,300 were killed by a large magnitude 6.6 quake in Japan . In November, a magnitude 8.1 quake caused a devastating tsunami leading to 4,000 deaths in Pakistan .