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230,000–300,000 [10] 7.0 M w 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 ...
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.
2008 Sichuan earthquake China: May 12: 12 2009: 8.1: 192: 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami Samoa: September 29: 17 2010: 8.8: 525: 2010 Chile earthquake Chile: February 27: 22 2011: 9.0–9.1: 19,759: 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami Japan: March 11: 20 2012: 8.6: 10: 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes Indonesia, Indian Ocean: April 11: 17 2013: ...
List of earthquakes in Samoa; List of earthquakes in Saudi Arabia; List of earthquakes in Slovenia; List of earthquakes in the Solomon Islands archipelago; List of earthquakes in South Africa; List of earthquakes in South Korea; List of earthquakes in Spain; List of earthquakes in Switzerland
This category includes articles on individual earthquakes, listed by the country in which the epicenter occurred. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Earthquakes by country . Subcategories
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 seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based earthquake warning systems [3] — they rely mainly ...
Up to 66,900 people died from earthquakes in 2023, the highest death toll for earthquakes since 2010. At least 59,488 people died in the Turkey–Syria doublets of February, which dominated world headlines because of its extensive devastation; the first mainshock was also the largest earthquake of the year at M w 7.8.
It was the deadliest earthquake in the immediate area since a M s 6.6 event occurred in Yadong County on 20 November 1980. That earthquake had an epicenter 176 km (109 mi) away and killed 3 people in the county. The 7 January 2025 earthquake was also the largest in the area since a M s 7.1 struck 171 km (106 mi) to the south on 26 April 2015.