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Historically Significant Earthquakes
Date Location Deaths Magnitude Comments
Apr. 19, 1902 Quezaltenango and San Marcos, Guatemala 2,000 7.5
Dec. 16, 1902 Turkestan 4,700 6.4
Apr. 28, 1903 Malazgirt, Turkey 3,500 7.0
May 28, 1903 Gole, Turkey 1,000 5.8
Apr. 4, 1905 Kangra, India 19,000 7.5
Jan. 31, 1906 Off coast of Esmeraldas, Ecuador 1,000 8.8
Mar. 16, 1906 Chia-i, Taiwan 1,250 6.8
April 18, 1906 San Francisco, California ~3,000 7.8 Majority of deaths from resulting fires.
Aug. 17, 1906 Valparaiso, Chile 20,000 8.2
Jan. 14, 1907 Kingston, Jamaica 800 to 1,000 6.5
Oct. 21, 1907 Qaratog (Karatag), Tajikistan (Turkestan, Russia) 12,000 8.0
Dec. 28, 1908 Messina, Italy 72,000 7.2 Deaths from earthquake and tsunami.
Jan. 23, 1909 Silakhor, Iran 5,000 to 6,000 7.3
Aug. 9, 1912 Murefte, Turkey 2,800 7.4
Oct. 3, 1914 Burdur, Turkey 4,000 7.0
Jan. 13, 1915 Avezzano, Italy 32,610 7.0
Jan. 20, 1917 Bali, Indonesia 1,500
July 30, 1917 North of Daguan, Yunnan, China 1,800 7.5
Feb. 13, 1918 Nan'ao, Guangdong (Kwangtung), China 1,000 7.4
Dec. 16, 1920 Haiyuan, Ningxia (Ning-hsia), China 200,000 7.8 Major fractures, landslides.
Mar. 24, 1923 Near Luhuo, Sichuan (Szechwan), China 3,500 7.3
May 25, 1923 Torbat-e Heydariyeh, Iran (Persia) 2,200 5.7
Sep. 1, 1923 Kanto (Kwanto), Japan 142,800 7.9 Great Tokyo fire.
Mar. 16, 1925 Yunnan, China 5,800 7.0 Talifu almost completely destroyed.
Mar. 7, 1927 Tango, Japan 3,020 7.6
May 22, 1927 Gulang, Gansu (Kansu), China 40,900 7.6 Reports of as many as 200,000 killed.
May 1, 1929 Koppeh Dagh, Iran (Persia) 3,800 7.2
May 6, 1930 Salmas, Iran (Persia) 2,500 7.2
July 23, 1930 Irpinia, Italy 1,400 6.5
Mar. 31, 1931 Managua, Nicaragua 2,500 6.0
Apr. 27, 1931 Zangezur Mountains, Armenia-Azerbaijan border 2,800 5.7
Aug. 10, 1931 Near Fuyun (Koktokay), Xinjiang (Sinkiang), China 10,000 8.0
Mar. 2, 1933 Sanriku, Japan 3,000 8.4
Aug. 25, 1933 Sichuan, China 9,300 7.5
Jan. 15, 1934 Bihar, India-Nepal 10,700 8.1
Apr. 20, 1935 Miao-li, Taiwan 3,270 7.1
May 30, 1935 Quetta, Pakistan 30,000 7.6 Quetta almost completely destroyed.
July 16, 1935 Hsin-chu, Taiwan 2,740 6.5
Jan. 25, 1939 Chillan, Chile 28,000 7.8
Dec. 26, 1939 Erzincan, Turkey 32,700 7.8
Nov. 10, 1940 Vrancea, Romania 1,000 7.3
Dec. 20, 1942 Erbaa, Turkey 1,100 7.3
Sep. 10, 1943 Tottori, Japan 1,190 7.4
Nov. 26, 1943 Ladik, Turkey 4,000 7.6
Jan. 15, 1944 San Juan, Argentina 8,000 7.4
Feb. 1, 1944 Gerede, Turkey 2,790 7.4 Reports of as many as 5,000 killed.
Jan. 12, 1945 Mikawa, Japan 1,961 7.1
Nov. 27, 1945 Makran Coast, Pakistan 4,000 8.0
May 31, 1946 Ustukran, Turkey 840 to 1,300 5.9
Nov. 10, 1946 Ancash, Peru 1,400 7.3 Landslides, great destruction.
Dec. 20, 1946 Nankaido, Japan 1,362 8.1
June 28, 1948 Fukui, Japan 3,769 7.3
Oct. 5, 1948 USSR (Turkmenistan, Ashgabat) 110,000 7.3
July 10, 1949 Khait, Tajikistan (Tadzhikistan, USSR) 12,000 7.5
Aug. 5, 1949 Ambato, Ecuador 5,050 6.8 Large landslides, topographical changes.
Aug. 15, 1950 Assam-Tibet (India-China border) 1,526 8.6 Great topographical changes, landslides, floods.
Aug. 2, 1951 Cosiguina, Nicaragua 1,000 5.8
Mar. 18, 1953 Yenice-Gonen, Turkey 1,070 7.3
Sep. 9, 1954 Orleansville, Algeria 1,250 6.8
July 2, 1957 Near Sang Chai, Mazandaran, Iran 1,200 7.1
Dec. 13, 1957 Sahneh, Iran 1,130 7.1
Feb. 29, 1960 Agadir, Morocco 12,000 to 15,000 5.7 Occurred at shallow depth just under city.
May 22, 1960 Temuco-Valdivia, Chile 1,655 9.5 Tsunami, volcanic activity, floods. Estimated death toll as high as 5,700.
Sep. 1, 1962 Qazvin, Iran 12,225 7.1
July 26, 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia 1,100 6.0 Occurred at shallow depth just under city.
Mar. 7, 1966 East of Longyao, Hebei (Hopeh), China 1,000 7.0
Mar. 22, 1966 Hebei (Hopeh), China 1,000 6.9
Aug. 19, 1966 Varto, Turkey 2,529 6.8
Aug. 31, 1968 Dasht-e Bayaz, Iran 7,000 to 12,000 7.3
July 25, 1969 Yangjiang, Guangdong, China 3,000 5.9
Jan. 4, 1970 Yunnan Province, China 10,000 7.5
Mar. 28, 1970 Gediz, Turkey 1,086 6.9
May 31, 1970 Chimbote, Peru 70,000 7.9 Massive rock slide, floods.
May 22, 1971 Turkey 1,000 6.9
Apr. 10, 1972 Southern Iran 5,054 7.1
Dec. 23, 1972 Managua, Nicaragua 5,000 6.2
May 10, 1974 China 20,000 6.8
Dec. 28, 1974 Pakistan 5,300 6.2
Feb. 4, 1975 Haicheng, China 2,000 7.0
Sep. 6, 1975 Turkey 2,300 6.7
Feb. 4, 1976 Guatemala 23,000 7.5
May 6, 1976 Northeastern Italy 1,000 6.5
July 27, 1976 Tangshan, China 255,000 7.5 Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.
Aug. 16, 1976 Mindanao, Philippines 8,000 7.9
Nov. 24, 1976 Turkey-Iran border region 5,000 7.3
Mar. 4, 1977 Romania 1,500 7.2
Sep. 16, 1978 Iran 15,000 7.8
Oct. 10, 1980 El Asnam, Algeria 5,000 7.7
Nov. 23, 1980 Southern Italy 3,000 6.5
June 11, 1981 Southern Iran 3,000 6.9
July 28, 1981 Southern Iran 1,500 7.3
Dec. 13, 1982 Yemen 2,800 6.0
Oct. 30, 1983 Turkey 1,342 6.9
Sep. 19, 1985 Michoacán, Mexico 9,500 (official) 8.0 Estimated death toll as high as 30,000.
Oct. 10, 1986 El Salvador 1,000 5.5
Mar. 6, 1987 Colombia-Ecuador 1,000 7.0
Aug. 20, 1988 Nepal-India border region 1,000 6.8
Dec. 7, 1988 Spitak, Armenia 25,000 6.8
June 20, 1990 Western Iran 40,000 to 50,000 7.4 Landslides.
July 16, 1990 Luzon, Philippine Islands 1,621 7.7 Landslides, subsidence, and sandblows.
Oct. 19, 1991 Northern India 2,000 7.0
Dec. 12, 1992 Flores Region, Indonesia 2,500 7.5 Tsunami ran inland 300 meters; wave height 25 meters.
Sep. 29, 1993 Latur-Killari, India 9,748 6.2
Jan. 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan 5,502 6.9 Landslide, liquefaction.
May 27, 1995 Sakhalin Island 1,989 7.5
May 10, 1997 Northern Iran 1,567 7.3 4,460 injured, 60,000 homeless.
Feb. 04, 1998 Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan 2,323 5.9 818 injured, 8,094 houses destroyed, 6,725 livestock killed.
May 30, 1998 Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region 4,000 6.6 Many thousands injured and homeless.
July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea 2,183 7.0 Thousands injured, about 9,500 homeless, and about 500 missing as a result of a tsunami with maximum wave heights estimated at 10 meters.
Jan. 25, 1999 Colombia 1,185 6.1 Over 700 missing and presumed killed, over 4,750 injured, and about 250,000 homeless.
Aug. 17, 1999 Turkey 17,118 7.6 At least 50,000 injured, thousands homeless. Damage estimate at U.S.$3 billion to $6.5 billion.
Sep. 20, 1999 Taiwan 2,400 7.6 Over 8,700 injured, over 600,000 homeless. Damage estimate at U.S.$14 billion.
Jan. 26, 2001 Gujarat, India 20,085 7.6 166,836 injured, 600,000 homeless.
Mar. 25, 2002 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan 1,000 6.1 4,000 injured, 1,500 houses destroyed in the Nahrin area. Approximately 20,000 people homeless.
May 2, 2003 Northern Algeria 2,266 6.8 10,261 injured, 150,000 homeless.
Dec. 26, 2003 Southeastern Iran 31,000 6.6 30,000 injured, 85% of buildings damaged or destroyed in Bam area.
Dec. 26, 2004 Sumatra 227,898 9.1 The tsunami caused by the earthquake resulted in more casualties than any other in recorded history.
Mar. 28, 2005 Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 1,313 8.6
Oct. 8, 2005 Pakistan 86,000 7.6 69,000 injured and an estimated 2.5 million people left homeless.
May 26, 2006 Indonesia 5,749 6.3
Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS),
National Earthquake Information Center.
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