Fricking Earthquakes

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Pos. Date Location Magnitude

1 May 22, 1960 Valdivia, Chile (see: 1960 Valdivia earthquake) 9.5

2 December 26, 2004Off west coast northern Sumatra, Indonesia (see: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake)

9.3

3 October 16, 1737 Kamchatka, Russia (see: Kamchatka earthquakes) ~9.3

3 March 27, 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA (see: 1964 Alaska earthquake) 9.2

5 November 4, 1952 Kamchatka, Russia 9.0

6 January 26, 1700 Cascadia subduction zone (see: 1700 Cascadia earthquake) ~9

7 January 31, 1906 Colombia-Ecuador 8.8

8 February 4, 1965 Rat Islands, Alaska, USA 8.7

8 November 25, 1833 Sumatra, Indonesia 8.7

10 November 1, 1755 Lisbon, Portugal (see: 1755 Lisbon earthquake) ~8.7

11 March 28, 2005 Sumatra, Indonesia 8.6-8.7*

12 March 9, 1957Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA (see: 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake)

8.6

12 December 16, 1920 Ningxia-Gansu, China 8.6

12 August 15, 1950 Assam-Tibet, China 8.6

15 December 16, 1575 Valdivia, Chile 8.5

15 September 12, 2007 Sumatra, Indonesia 8.5

Largest earthquakes by magnitude

Rank Name Date Location Fatalities Magnitude Comments

1 "Shaanxi" January 23, 1556 Shaanxi, China 830,000 8.0Death toll skyrocketed in China

2 "Tangshan" July 27, 1976 Tangshan, China 255,000 (official) 7.5Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.

3 "Indian Ocean" December 26, 2004

Off West coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

~230,210 dead and missing 9.0

Deaths from earthquake and tsunami.

4 "Aleppo" October 11, 1138 Aleppo, Syria 230,000 8.5Death toll disputed as first mention of 230,000 dead was in the 15th century.

5"Damghan" December 22, 856 Damghan, Iran 200,000

"Gansu" December 16, 1920

Ningxia-Gansu, China 200,000 - 240,000 7.8 or 8.5 Major fractures,

landslides.

7 "Ardabil" March 23, 893+ Ardabil, Iran 150,000

8 "Great Kantō" September 1, 1923 Kantō region, Japan 143,000 7.9 Great Tokyo fire.

9 "Ashgabat" October 6, 1948 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 110,000 7.3

10 "Kashmir" October 8, 2005 India & N.W.F.P, Pakistan

100,000 (estimated), 80,000 (official)

7.6 or 7.83.5 million people homeless, 100,000 feared dead

Source: USGS [1]

Deadliest earthquakes on record

An earthquake (also known as a tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden discharge of energy in the Earth's shell that creates massive waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The jiffy amount of an earthquake is usually reported, or the related and mostly out of date Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly unnoticeable and magnitude 7 causing grim damage over large areas. strength of shaking is measured on the customised Mercalli scale.

At the Earth's shell, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacing the land. When a large earthquake epicenter is located off the shore, the ocean floor sometimes suffers adequate dislocation to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also activate landslides and rarely volcanic action.

In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by crack of environmental faults, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments. An earthquake's point of initial crack is called its focus or hypocenter. The expression epicenter refers to the point at ground level straight above the hypocenter.

General Earthquake Knowledge

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