Friday, March 11, 2011

The most powerful earthquakes and the most destructive

I PIU 'POWERFUL 1) 1960, May 22: Chile, magnitude 5.9 2) 1964, March 28: Prince William Sound (Alaska), magnitude 9.2 3) 2004, 26 December: Sumatra-Andaman Islands, magnitude 9.1 4) 1952, 4 November: Kamchatka (Russia), magnitude 9.0 5) 1868, August 13: Arica, Peru (now Chile), magnitude 9.0 6) 1700, January 26: the Cascadia Subduction Zone (U.S.

West Coast), magnitude 9.0 7) 2011 , March 11: East Coast of Honshu (Japan), magnitude 8.9 8) 2010, February 27: Bio-Bio (Chile), magnitude 8.8 9) 1906, Jan. 31: Coast Esmeralda (Ecuador), magnitude 8.8 10) 1965, February 4: Rat Islands (Alaska), magnitude 8.7 The PIU 'DESTRUCTIVE 1) 1556, January 23: Shaanxi (Shensi, China), magnitude 8 to 870,000 deaths.

2) 1976, 27 spire: Tangshan (China), magnitude 7.5 - 255,000 deaths. 3) 1138, August 9: Aleppo (Syria), magnitude unknown - 230,000 deaths. 4) 2004, January 26: Sumatra, measuring 9.1 - 228,000 deaths. 5) 2010, December 1: Haiti, magnitude 7.0 - 222,570 deaths. 6) 856, December 22: Iran, magnitude unknown - 200,000 deaths.

7) 1920, December 16: Haiyuan, Ningxia (Ning-Hsia, China), magnitude 7.8 - 200,000 deaths. 8) 893, March 23: Iran, magnitude unknown - 150,000 dead. 9) 1923, September 1: Kanto (Japan), magnitude 7.9 - 142,800 deaths. 10) 1948, October 5: turkmenistan, magnitude 7.3 - 110,000 deaths.

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