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A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred-year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes <6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8, and >8 for the same period. The 2011 Japan quake would be roughly similar to Sumatra. Earthquakes of magnitude 8.0 and greater from 1900 to 2018.
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 ...
0–9. List of earthquakes in 1880; List of earthquakes in 1900; List of earthquakes in 1901; List of earthquakes in 1902; List of earthquakes in 1903; List of earthquakes in 1904
Earthquake October 6 1949 7,200 1949 Khait earthquake: Tajikistan Earthquake July 10 1950 4,800 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake: India, China August 15 1951 4,800 1951 Manchuria flood China Flood September 18 1952 2,336 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake: Russia Earthquake November 4 1953 2,551 North Sea flood of 1953: Netherlands, Belgium, England ...
About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year ... The largest earthquake in U.S. history was the 1964 Good Friday quake in Alaska, a 9.2 magnitude temblor that killed 131 people.
1920 Haiyuan earthquake: China December 16, 1920 2 242,419 7.6 1976 Tangshan earthquake: China July 28, 1976 3 142,800 8.2 1923 Great Kantō earthquake: Japan September 1, 1923 4 110,000 7.3 M s: 1948 Ashgabat earthquake: Soviet Union: October 5, 1948 5 82,000 7.1 M s: 1908 Messina earthquake: Italy December 28, 1908 6 70,000 7.9 1970 Ancash ...
Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
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.