Earthquake: Past Incidents
Mount Vesuvius burned Pompeii. Hurricane Katrina wiped New Orleans. Al Qaeda's terrorism crashed the World Trade Center. The Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake shook Iran. The '82 earthquake starved Australia. The Tri-State tornado spun through Midwestern United States. Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbian army shelled Bosnia. Agent Orange rained down throughout Vietnam. The Mameyes landslide covered Puerto Rico. The December Tsunami flooded South and South East Asia.
- 1906 Ecuador
- An 8.6 magnitude earthquake killed 500 people
- 1923 Japan
- An 8.3 magnitude earthquake killed 143000 people and triggered the Great Tokyo fire
- 1927 China
- An 8.3 magnitude earthquake made large fractures and killed 200000 people
- 1950 Himalayan Mountains
- An 8.6 magnitude earthquake killed 8500 people
- 1960 Chile
- An immensely powerful 9.2 magnitude earthquake killed 22000 people
- 1976 China
- An 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the high density region of Tangshan and killed an estimated 655000 people
- 2004 Indonesia
- A very strong 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered a seismic sea wave that concurrently caused the deaths of a reported 135000 people
- 2005 Pakistan
- A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake killed an estimated 75000 people
Sources Consulted
Sources
- Bilham, Roger. "Most Destructive Known Earthquakes on Record in the World." 1994. 27 Feb 2006. <http://sos.netonecom.net/webpub/Quake%20Data/destruct.htm>
- O'Leary, LeeAnn. "Most Powerful Earthquakes in History." BellaOnline. 2006. 27 Feb 2006. <http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art27150.asp>
