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

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