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Southern Sumatera, Indonesia
Magnitude: 7.9
Fatalities: 103
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New Ireland Region, P.N.G.
Magnitude: 8.0
Fatalities: 2
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India
Magnitude: 7.7
Fatalities: 20023
Deadly The shock waves or tremors from the Gujurat earthquake lasted about two minutes, followed by aftershocks for more than a month. http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/archives/secondary/casestud/india/2/earthquake.html -
Near Coast of Peru
Magnitude: 8.4
Fatalities: 138
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Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan
Magnitude: 6.1
Fatalities: 1800
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Central Alaska
Magnitude: 7.9
Fatalities: 0
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Hokkaido, Japan Region
Magnitude: 8.3
Fatalities: 0
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Southeastern Iran
Magnitude: 6.6
Fatalities: 31,000
Deadly The country suffers frequent earthquakes, with small tremors happening almost daily.
It is thought many people were crushed as they slept.
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Off West Coast of Northern Sumatra
Magnitude: 9.1
Fatalities: 227,898
Large and Deadly This is the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake. In total, more than 283,100 people were killed, 14,100 are still listed as missing and 1,126,900 were displaced by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 10 countries in South Asia and East Africa. http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2004/eq_041226/neic_slav_nr.html -
Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
Magnitude: 8.6
Fatalities: 1,313
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Pakistan
Magnitude: 7.6
Fatalities: 80,361
Deadly Parts of Azad Kashmir, Khyber PakhtunKhwa (NWFP) and Punjab were severely affected by the tremors and aftershocks that continued for months. http://www.pakquake.com/ -
Java, Indonesia
Magnitude: 6.3
Fatalities: 5,749
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Kuril Islands
Magnitude: 8.3
Fatalities: 0
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Near the Coast of Central Peru
Magnitude: 8.0
Fatalities: 514
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Southern Sumatera, Indonesia
Magnitude: 8.5
Fatalities: 25
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Eastern Sichuan, China
Magnitude: 7.9
Fatalities: 87,587
Large and Deadly More than 45.5 million people in 10 provinces and regions were affected. At least 15 million people were evacuated from their homes and more than 5 million were left homeless. An estimated 5.36 million buildings collapsed and more than 21 million buildings were damaged in Sichuan and in parts of Chongqing, Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi and Yunnan. The total economic loss was estimated at 86 billion US dollars. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eq -
Samoa Islands Region
Magnitude: 8.1
Fatalities: 192
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Southern Sumatra, Indonesia
Magnitude: 7.5
Fatalities: 1,117
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Haiti
Magnitude: 7.0
Fatalities: 316,000
Deadly The quake that struck on Jan. 10, 2010, reduced much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, to rubble. A study by the Inter-American Development Bank estimated that the total cost of the disaster was between $8 billion to $14 billion, based on a death toll from 200,000 to 250,000. That number was revised in 2011 by Haiti’s government to 316,000; the government has never explained how it arrived at its death toll figures. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/in -
Offshore Maule, Chile
Magnitude: 8.8
Fatalities: 507
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Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan
Magnitude: 9.0
Fatalities: 20,896
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