The World's Deadliest Earthquakes Gallery
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Published
09/08/2012
Here is a gallery of some of the World's Deadliest Earthquakes.
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1.
Shaanxi, China - 8.0 Magnitude - 830,000 Deaths - Jan. 23, 1556 -
2.
Haiti - 7.0 Magnitude - 316,000 Deaths - January 12, 2010 -
3.
Sumatra, Sumatra - 8.6 Magnitude - 283,000 Deaths - 2004 -
4.
Tangshan, China - 7.8 Magnitude - 240,000 Deaths - July 28, 1976 -
5.
Aleppo, Syria - 8.5 Magnitude - 235,000 Deaths - 1138 -
6.
Xining, China - 7.9 Magnitude - 200,000 Deaths - May 22, 1927 -
7.
Gansu, China - 8.6 Magnitude - 200,000 Deaths - Dec. 16th, 1920 -
8.
Damghan, Iran - 8.0 Magnitude - 200,000 Deaths - 856 -
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Ardabil, Iran - 5.2 Magnitude - 150,000 Deaths - Feb. 28, 1997 -
10.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - 7.3 Magnitude - 150,000 Deaths - 1948 -
11.
Great Kanto, Japan - 8.3 Magnitude - 142,000 Deaths - 1923 -
12.
Hokkaido, Japan - 8.3 Magnitude - 137,000 Deaths - 1730 -
13.
USSR - 7.4 Magnitude - 110,000 Deaths - 1948 -
14.
Indian Ocean, Indonesia - 9.3 Magnitude - 100,000 Deaths, Dec. 26th, 2004 -
15.
Messina, Italy - 7.1 Magnitude - 100,000 Deaths - 1908 -
16.
Chihli, China - 8.8 Magnitude - 100,000 Deaths - 1290 -
17.
Azad Kashmir - 7.6 Magnitude - 80,000 Deaths - 2005 -
18.
Tabriz, Iran - 6.4 Magnitude - 77,000 Deaths - 1727 -
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Haiyuan, China - 7.8 Magnitude - 73,000 Deaths - Dec. 16, 1920 -
20.
Lisbon, Portugal - 8.7 Magnitude - 70,000 Deaths - 1755 -
21.
Peru - 7.9 Magnitude - 66,000 Deaths - 1970 -
22.
Quetta, Pakistan - 7.5 Magnitude - 60,000 Deaths - 1935 -
23.
Sicily, Italy - 7.4 Magnitude - 60,000 Deaths - 1693 -
24.
Western Iran - 6.1 Magnitude - 50,000 Deaths - 1990 -
25.
Calabria, Italy - 7.0 Magnitude - 50,000 Deaths - 1783 -
26.
Japan - 8.9 Magnitude - 19,000 Deaths - March 11th, 2011
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