List of earthquakes
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The following is a list of major earthquakes.
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[edit] USGS list of significant earthquakes
This is a list of significant earthquakes as listed by the USGS. For other ancient or recent earthquakes not listed here, see the tables below.
| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat. | Long. | Fatalities | Mag. | MX† (M reference) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 23, 1556 | Shaanxi, China see Shaanxi Earthquake |
34.5 | 109.7 | 830,000 | 8 (approx) | ||
| August 17, 1668 | Anatolia, Turkey | 40 | 36 | 8,000 | 8 | ||
| January 26, 1700 | Cascadia subduction zone see Cascadia Earthquake |
9 | M (Satake et al, 1996) | ||||
| November 1, 1755 | 10:16 | Lisbon, Portugal see 1755 Lisbon earthquake |
36 | -11 | 80,000 | 8.7 | MI (Johnston, 1996) |
| December 16, 1811 | 8:00 | New Madrid, Missouri, USA see New Madrid Earthquake |
36.6 | -89.6 | 8.1 | MI (Johnston, 1996) | |
| January 23, 1812 | 15:00 | New Madrid, Missouri, USA | 36.6 | -89.6 | 7.8 | MI (Johnston, 1996) | |
| February 7, 1812 | 9:45 | New Madrid, Missouri, USA | 36.6 | -89.6 | 8 | MI (Johnston, 1996) | |
| June 2, 1823 | 8:00 | south flank of Kilauea, Hawaii, USA | 19.3 | -155 | 7 | MI (Klein and Wright, 2000) | |
| June 10, 1836 | 15:30 | south San Francisco Bay region, California, USA | 36.9 | -121.5 | 6.5 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| June 1838 | San Francisco Peninsula, California, USA | 37.3 | -123.2 | 6.8 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | ||
| January 5, 1843 | 2:45 | Marked Tree, Arkansas, USA | 35.5 | -90.5 | 6.3 | MI (Johnston, 1996) | |
| January 9, 1857 | 16:24 | Fort Tejon, California (San Andreas fault from Parkfield to Wrightwood) see Fort Tejon earthquake |
1 | 7.9 | M (Grant and Sieh, 1993; Stein and Hanks, 1998) | ||
| December 16, 1857 | 21:00 | Naples, Italy | 40.3 | 16 | 11,000 | 6.9 | MI |
| October 8, 1865 | 20:46 | San Jose, California, USA | 37.2 | 121.9 | 6.5 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| April 3, 1868 | 2:25 | Hilea, southeast Hawaii, Hawaii, USA | 19.2 | -155.5 | 77 | 7.9 | MI (Klein and Wright, 2000) |
| 15:53 | Hayward, California, USA, Hayward Fault Zone | 37.7 | -122.1 | 30 | 6.8 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| February 20, 1871 | 8:42 | Molokai, Hawaii, USA | 21.2 | -156.9 | 6.8 | MI (Klein and Wright, 2000) | |
| March 26, 1872 | 10:30 | Owens Valley, California, USA see 1872 Lone Pine earthquake |
36.5 | -118 | 27 | 7.6 | M (Beanland and Clark, 1994) |
| December 15, 1872 | 5:40 | north Cascades, Washington, USA | 47.9 | -120.3 | 7.3 | MI (Malone and Bor, 1979; Rogers et al., 1983) | |
| November 23, 1873 | 5:00 | California-Oregon coast | 42.2 | -124.2 | 7.3 | MI (Bakun, 2000) | |
| August 31, 1886 | 2:51 | Charleston, South Carolina, USA | 32.9 | -80 | 60 | 7.3 | MI (Johnston, 1996) |
| April 24, 1890 | 11:36 | Corralitos, California, USA | 37 | 121.8 | 6.3 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| October 27, 1891 | 21:38 | Mino-Owari, Japan | 35.6 | 136.6 | 7,273 | 8 | MS |
| April 19, 1892 | 10:50 | Vacaville, California, USA | 38.5 | -121.8 | 1 | 6.4 | MI (Bakun, 1999) |
| April 21, 1892 | 17:43 | Winters, California, USA | 38.6 | -122 | 6.4 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| October 31, 1895 | 11:08 | Charleston, Missouri, USA | 37 | -89.4 | 6.6 | MI (Johnston, 1996) | |
| June 15, 1896 | 19:32 | Sanriku, Japan | 39.5 | 144 | 8.5 (approx) | M | |
| June 12, 1897 | 11:06 | Assam, India | 26 | 91 | 1,500 | 8.3 | |
| June 20, 1897 | 20:14 | Calaveras Fault, California, USA | 37 | -121.6 | 6.3 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| March 31, 1898 | 7:43 | Mare Island, California, USA | 38.1 | 122.4 | 6.3 | MI (Bakun, 1999) | |
| April 15, 1898 | 7:07 | Mendocino County, California, USA | 39.3 | -123.9 | 6.8 | MI (Bakun, 2000) | |
| September 4, 1899 | 0:22 | Cape Yakataga, Alaska, USA | 60 | -142 | 7.9 | MS | |
| September 10, 1899 | 21:41 | Yakutat Bay, Alaska, USA | 60 | -142 | 8 | MS | |
| October 9, 1900 | 12:28 | Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA | 57.1 | -153.5 | 7.7 | MS | |
| March 3, 1901 | 7:45 | Parkfield, California, USA | 36.2 | -120.7 | 6.4 | MS (Abe, 1988) | |
| August 27, 1904 | 21:56 | Fairbanks, Alaska, USA | 64.7 | -148.1 | 7.3 | MS | |
| July 9, 1905 | 9:40 | Mongolia | 49 | 99 | 8.4 | M | |
| January 31, 1906 | 15:36 | Colombia-Ecuador | 1 | -81.5 | 1,000 | 8.8 | M |
| April 18, 1906 | 13:12 | San Francisco, California (San Andreas fault from Cape Mendocino to San Juan Bautista) see San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
3,000 | 7.8 | M (Bakun, 1999) | ||
| August 17, 1906 | 0:40 | Valparaíso, Chile | -33 | -72 | 20,000 | 8.2 | M |
| December 28, 1908 | 4:20 | Messina & Reggio Calabria, Italy | 38.3 | 15.6 | 70,000 | 7.2 | MS |
| July 1, 1911 | 22:00 | Calaveras fault, California, USA | 37.39 | -121.8 | 6.5 | MS | |
| October 3, 1915 | 6:52 | Pleasant Valley, Nevada, USA | 40.5 | -117.5 | 7.1 | M (Stover and Coffman, 1993) | |
| October 11, 1918 | 14:14 | Puerto Rico | 18.47 | -67.63 | 116 | 7.5 | MS (McCann, 1985) |
| December 6, 1918 | 8:41 | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada | 49.62 | -125.92 | 7 | ML (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954: Rogers, 1983) | |
| December 16, 1920 | 12:05 | Ningxia-Gansu, China see 1920 Haiyuan earthquake |
36.6 | 105.32 | 200,000 | 8.6 | MS |
| January 31, 1922 | 13:17 | offshore, Cape Mendocino, California, USA | 40.7 | -125.55 | 7.3 | MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| March 10, 1922 | 11:21 | Parkfield, California, USA | 35.9 | 120.9 | 6.1 | M (Bakun and McEvilly, 1984) | |
| January 22, 1923 | 9:04 | offshore, Cape Mendocino, California, USA | 40.49 | -125.32 | 7.2 | MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| September 1, 1923 | 2:58 | Kantō, Japan see Great Kantō earthquake |
35.4 | 139.08 | 143,000 | 7.9 | M |
| March 1, 1925 | 2:19 | Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada | 47.76 | -69.84 | 6.3 | M (Bent, 1992) | |
| June 28, 1925 | 1:21 | Clarkston Valley, Montana, USA | 46.32 | -111.52 | 6.6 | M (Dosier, 1989) | |
| June 29, 1925 | 14:42 | Santa Barbara, California, USA | 34.3 | -119.8 | 13 | 6.8 | M (Stein and Hanks, 1998) |
| October 22, 1926 | 12:35 | Monterey Bay, California, USA | 36.62 | -122.35 | 6.1 | MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| October 22, 1926 | 13:35 | Monterey Bay, California, USA | 36.55 | -122.18 | 6.1 | MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| March 7, 1927 | 9:27 | Tango, Japan | 35.8 | 134.92 | 3,020 | 7.6 | MS |
| May 22, 1927 | 22:32 | Gulang, Gansu, China | 37.39 | 102.31 | 40,000 | 7.9 | MS |
| November 4, 1927 | 13:51 | offshore Lompoc, California, USA | 34.92 | -121.03 | 7.1 | M (Stein and Hanks, 1998) | |
| November 18, 1929 | 20:32 | Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada | 44.69 | -56.01 | 7.3 | M (Bent, 1995) | |
| December 21, 1932 | 6:10 | Cedar Mountain, Nevada, USA | 38.51 | -118.08 | 7.2 | M | |
| March 2, 1933 | 17:31 | Sanriku, Japan | 39.22 | 144.62 | 2,990 | 8.4 | M |
| March 11, 1933 | 1:54 | Long Beach, California, USA see Long Beach earthquake of 1933 |
33.6 | -118 | 115 | 6.4 | M (Hauksson & Gross, 1991) |
| November 20, 1933 | 23:21 | Baffin Bay, Canada | 73 | -69.98 | 7.4 | M (Stein et al. 1979) | |
| January 15, 1934 | 8:43 | Bihar, India | 27.55 | 87.09 | 10,700 | 8.1 | M (Chen and Molnar, 1977) |
| June 8, 1934 | 4:47 | Parkfield, California, USA | 35.9 | -120.9 | 6.1 | M (Bakun and McEvilly, 1984) | |
| November 1, 1935 | 6:03 | Témiscaming, Quebec, Canada See 1935 Timiskaming earthquake. |
48.89 | -79 | 6.2 | M (Bent, 1996) | |
| July 22, 1937 | 17:09 | Salcha, Alaska, USA | 64.49 | -146.85 | 7.3 | MS | |
| January 23, 1938 | 8:32 | Maui, Hawaii, USA | 20.96 | -156.18 | 6.8 | MS (Klein and Wright, 2000) | |
| November 10, 1938 | 20:18 | Shumagin Islands, Alaska, USA | 55.33 | -158.37 | 8.2 | M | |
| December 26, 1939 | 23:57 | Erzincan, Turkey see 1939 Erzincan earthquake |
39.77 | 39.53 | 32,700 | 7.8 | MS |
| May 19, 1940 | 4:36 | Imperial Valley, California, USA | 32.73 | -115.5 | 9 | 7.1 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) |
| November 10, 1940 | 1:39 | Vrancea, RO | 45.80 | 26.70 | 4,000 | 7.4 | M (LT, 2007) |
| December 7, 1944 | 4:35 | Tonankai, Japan | 33.75 | 136 | 1,223 | 8.1 | M |
| April 1, 1946 | 12:28 | Unimak Island, Alaska, USA | 52.75 | -163.5 | 165 | 7.3 | MS (Stover and Coffman, 1993) |
| June 23, 1946 | 17:13 | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada | 49.75 | -124.5 | 7.3 | ML (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954: Rogers, 1983) | |
| August 4, 1946 | 17:51 | Dominican Republic | 19.25 | -69 | 100 | 8 | MS (Abe, 1981) |
| December 20, 1946 | 19:19 | Nankaidō, Japan | 32.5 | 134.5 | 1,330 | 8.1 | M |
| October 16, 1947 | 2:09 | Fairbanks, Alaska, USA | 64.2 | -148.3 | 7.2 | M | |
| April 13, 1949 | 19:55 | Olympia, Washington, USA | 47.1 | -122.7 | 8 | 7.1 | ML (Baker and Langston, 1987) |
| August 22, 1949 | 4:01 | Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada see 1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake |
53.62 | -133.27 | 8.1 | MS (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954) | |
| August 15, 1950 | 14:09 | Assam-Tibet | 28.5 | 96.5 | 1,526 | 8.6 | M |
| August 21, 1951 | 10:57 | Kona, Hawaii, USA | 19.5 | -155.95 | 6.9 | MS (Klein and Wright, 2000) | |
| July 21, 1952 | 11:52 | Kern County, California, USA | 34.95 | -119.05 | 12 | 7.3 | M (Stein and Hanks, 1998) |
| November 4, 1952 | 16:58 | Kamchatka, Russia see Kamchatka earthquakes |
52.76 | 160.06 | 9 | M | |
| March 29, 1954 | 6:17 | Spain | 37.03 | -3.51 | 7.9 | M | |
| July 6, 1954 | 11:13 | Rainbow Mountain, Nevada, USA | 39.42 | -118.53 | 6.6 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| August 24, 1954 | 5:51 | Stillwater, Nevada, USA | 39.58 | -118.45 | 6.8 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| December 16, 1954 | 11:07 | Fairview Peak, Nevada, USA | 39.32 | -118.2 | 7.1 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| December 16, 1954 | 11:11 | Dixie Valley, Nevada, USA | 39.5 | -118 | 6.8 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| October 24, 1955 | 4:10 | Concord, California, USA | 38 | -122.1 | 1 | 5.4 | ML (Bolt and Miller, 1975) |
| March 9, 1957 | 14:22 | Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA see 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake |
51.56 | -175.39 | 9.1 | M | |
| December 4, 1957 | 3:37 | Govi-Altai Province, Mongolia | 45.15 | 99.21 | 30 | 8.1 | M |
| April 7, 1958 | 15:30 | Huslia, Alaska, USA | 65.94 | -156.37 | 7.3 | M | |
| July 10, 1958 | 6:15 | Fairweather, Alaska, USA comment caused megatsunami in Lituya Bay, Alaska |
58.37 | -136.66 | 5 | 7.7 | M |
| August 18, 1959 | 6:37 | Hebgen Lake, Montana, USA see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake |
44.6 | -110.64 | 28 | 7.3 | M (Dosier, 1985) |
| February 29, 1960 | 23:40 | Agadir, Morocco see 1960 Agadir earthquake) |
30.5 | -9.3 | 10,000 | 5.7 | M |
| May 22, 1960 | 19:11 | Valdivia, Chile see Great Chilean Earthquake |
-38.24 | -73.05 | 5,700 | 9.5 | M |
| March 28, 1964 | 3:36 | Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA see Good Friday Earthquake |
61.02 | -147.65 | 125 | 9.2 | M |
| June 16, 1964 | 4:01 | Niigata, Japan | 38.43 | 139.23 | 26 | 7.5 | M |
| February 4, 1965 | 5:01 | Rat Islands, Alaska, USA | 51.21 | -178.5 | 8.7 | M | |
| April 29, 1965 | 08:29 | Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, USA | 47.32 | -122.33 | 7 | 6.5 | ML (Algermissen and Harding, 1965) |
| June 28, 1966 | 4:26 | Parkfield, California, USA | 35.88 | -120.49 | 6.1 | M (Tsai and Aki, 1969) | |
| September 12, 1966 | 16:41 | Truckee, California, USA | 39.38 | -120.22 | 5.9 | M (Tsai and Aki, 1970) | |
| December 10, 1967 | 22:51 | Koyna, India | 17.39 | 73.77 | 6.3 | M (Langston, 1976) | |
| October 2, 1969 | 6:19 | Santa Rosa, California, USA | 38.3 | -122.76 | 1 | 5.7 | ML (Bolt and Miller, 1975) |
| May 31, 1970 | 20:23 | Peru | -9.25 | -78.84 | 66,000 | 7.9 | M |
| July 31, 1970 | 17:08 | Colombia | -1.49 | -72.56 | 8 | MS | |
| February 9, 1971 | 14:00 | Sylmar, California, USA see Sylmar earthquake |
34.4 | -118.39 | 65 | 6.7 | M (Heaton, 1982) |
| December 23, 1972 | 06:29 | Managua, Nicaragua see 1972 Nicaragua earthquake |
12.35 | 86.12 | 6,000 | 6.2 | MW (Brown, R. D., P. L. Ward, and G. Plafker (1973)) |
| February 4, 1975 | 11:36 | Haicheng, China see 1975 Haicheng earthquake |
40.72 | 122.73 | 10,000 | 7 | M (Cipar, 1979) |
| August 1, 1975 | 20:20 | Oroville, California, USA | 39.5 | -121.39 | 5.8 | M | |
| November 29, 1975 | 14:47 | south flank of Kilauea, Hawaii, USA | 19.45 | -155.03 | 2 | 7.2 | MS (Klein and Wright, 2000) |
| February 4, 1976 | 9:01 | Guatemala | 15.3 | -89.14 | 23,000 | 7.5 | M |
| July 27, 1976 | 19:42 | Tangshan, China see Tangshan earthquake |
39.61 | 117.89 | 242,419* | 7.6 | M |
| September 16, 1978 | 19:38 | Tabas, Yazd Province, Iran see 1978 Tabas earthquake |
7.7 | ||||
| August 6, 1979 | 17:05 | Coyote Lake, California, USA | 37.11 | -121.52 | 5.7 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| October 15, 1979 | 23:17 | Imperial Valley, California, USA | 32.82 | -115.65 | 6.4 | M (Hartzell and Heaton, 1983) | |
| January 24, 1980 | 19:00 | Livermore, California, USA | 37.71 | -121.73 | 5.8 | M (Bolt et al., 1981) | |
| May 25, 1980 | 16:33 | Mammoth Lakes, California, USA | 37.6 | -118.83 | 6.1 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| May 25, 1980 | 16:49 | Mammoth Lakes, California, USA | 37.65 | -118.9 | 5.9 | ML (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| May 25, 1980 | 19:44 | Mammoth Lakes, California, USA | 37.55 | -118.82 | 5.8 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| May 27, 1980 | 14:50 | Mammoth Lakes, California, USA | 37.48 | -118.8 | 6 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| November 8, 1980 | 10:27 | Gorda Plate, California, USA | 41.12 | -124.67 | 7.2 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| November 23, 1980 | 19:34 | Irpinia, Southern Italy | 40.87 | 15.31 | 2735 | 6.8 | M |
| May 2, 1983 | 23:42 | Coalinga, California, USA | 36.23 | -120.32 | 6.5 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| March 31, 1983 | Popayan, Cauca, SA | 197 | 5.5 | ||||
| October 28, 1983 | 14:06 | Borah Peak, Idaho, USA | 44.09 | -113.8 | 2 | 7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| November 16, 1983 | 16:13 | Kaoiki, Hawaii, USA | 19.44 | 155.38 | 6.7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| April 24, 1984 | 21:15 | Morgan Hill, California, USA | 37.3 | -121.71 | 6.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| November 23, 1984 | 18:08 | Round Valley, California, USA | 37.45 | -118.6 | 5.7 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| September 19, 1985 | 13:17 | Michoacán, Mexico see 1985 Mexico City earthquake |
18.44 | -102.36 | 9,500 | 8 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| December 23, 1985 | 5:16 | Nahanni, Northwest Territories, Canada | 62.16 | -124.31 | 6.8 | M (Wetmiller et al., 1988) | |
| May 7, 1986 | 22:47 | Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA | 51.56 | -174.81 | 8 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| July 8, 1986 | 9:20 | north Palm Springs, California, USA | 33.97 | -116.78 | 6.1 | M (Hartzell, 1989) | |
| July 21, 1986 | 14:42 | Chalfant Valley, California, USA | 37.53 | -118.43 | 6.2 | M (Ellsworth, 1990) | |
| October 1, 1987 | 14:42 | Whittier Narrows, California, USA see Whittier Narrows earthquake |
34.06 | -118.13 | 8 | 5.9 | M (Hartzell and Iida, 1990) |
| November 30, 1987 | 19:23 | Gulf of Alaska | 58.84 | -142.6 | 7.9 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| January 22, 1988 | 0:35 | Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia | -19.87 | 133.78 | 6.3 | M (Choy and Bowman, 1990) | |
| January 22, 1988 | 3:57 | Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia | -19.88 | 133.83 | 6.4 | M (Choy and Bowman, 1990) | |
| January 22, 1988 | 12:04 | Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia | -19.9 | 133.83 | 6.6 | M (Choy and Bowman, 1990) | |
| March 6, 1988 | 22:35 | Gulf of Alaska | 57.26 | -142.75 | 7.8 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| November 25, 1988 | 23:46 | Saguenay, Quebec, Canada | 48.06 | -71.27 | 5.9 | M (Boatwright and Choy, 1992) | |
| December 7, 1988 | 7:41 | Spitak, Armenia | 40.93 | 44.11 | 25,000 | 6.8 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| October 17, 1989 | 0:04 | Loma Prieta, California, USA see Loma Prieta earthquake |
37.14 | -121.76 | 63 | 6.9 | M (Wald et al., 1991) |
| December 25, 1989 | 14:24 | Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, Canada | 60.07 | -73.54 | 6 | M (Bent, 1994) | |
| June 28, 1991 | 1:43 | Sierra Madre, California, USA | 34.25 | -117.95 | 2 | 5.6 | M (Wald et al., 1991) |
| August 17, 1991 | 22:17 | Honeydew, California, USA | 41.79 | -125.58 | 7.1 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| April 23, 1992 | 4:50 | Joshua Tree, California, USA | 33.87 | -116.55 | 6.1 | M (Hauksson et al., 1993) | |
| April 25, 1992 | 18:06 | Cape Mendocino, California, USA | 40.38 | -124.05 | 7.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| April 26, 1992 | 7:41 | offshore, Cape Mendocino, California, USA | 40.55 | -124.29 | 6.5 | M (Oppenheimer et al., 1993) | |
| April 26, 1992 | 11:18 | offshore, Cape Mendocino, California, USA | 40.44 | -124.43 | 6.7 | M (Oppenheimer et al., 1993) | |
| June 28, 1992 | 11:57 | Landers, California, USA | 34.2 | -116.52 | 3 | 7.3 | M (Sieh et al. 1993) |
| June 29, 1992 | 10:14 | Little Skull Mountain, Nevada, USA | 36.77 | -116.32 | 5.7 | M (Walter, 1993) | |
| September 2, 1992 | 0:16 | Nicaragua | 11.77 | -87.35 | 116 | 7.7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| September 29, 1993 | 22:25 | Latur-Killari, India | 18.08 | 76.52 | 9,748 | 6.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| January 17, 1994 | 12:30 | Northridge, California, USA see 1994 Northridge Earthquake |
34.18 | -118.56 | 60 | 6.7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| June 9, 1994 | 0:33 | Bolivia | -13.86 | -67.49 | 5 | 8.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| September 1, 1994 | 15:15 | Cape Mendocino, California, USA | 40.38 | -125.78 | 7.1 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| January 17, 1995 | 05:46 | Kobe, Japan see Great Hanshin earthquake |
34.57 | 135.03 | 5,502 | 6.9 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| May 21, 1997 | 22:51 | Jabalpur, India | 23.07 | 80.12 | 38 | 5.8 | M (Singh et al., 1999) |
| July 17, 1998 | 8:49 | New Guinea | -2.94 | 142.58 | 2,183 | 7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| January 25, 1999 | 18:19 | Colombia | 4.45 | -75.65 | 1,185 | 6.2 | |
| August 17, 1999 | 0:01 | İzmit, Turkey see İzmit earthquake |
40.77 | 30 | 17,118 | 7.6 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| September 20, 1999 | 17:47 | Chi-Chi, Taiwan see Chi-Chi earthquake |
23.82 | 120.86 | 2,400 | 7.7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| October 16, 1999 | 9:46 | Hector Mine, California, USA | 34.56 | -116.44 | 7.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| November 12, 1999 | 16:57 | Düzce, Turkey | 40.82 | 31.23 | 894 | 7.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| September 3, 2000 | 8:36 | Napa, California, USA | 38.38 | -122.41 | 5 | M (BRK) | |
| November 16, 2000 | 4:54 | New Ireland, Papua New Guinea | -4 | 152.33 | 8 | ||
| January 13, 2001 | 17:33 | El Salvador | 13.04 | -88.66 | 844 | 7.7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| January 26, 2001 | 3:16 | Gujarat, India see 2001 Gujarat Earthquake |
23.39 | 70.23 | 20,085 | 7.7 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| February 28, 2001 | 18:54 | Olympia, Washington, USA see Nisqually Earthquake |
47.11 | -122.6 | 6.8 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| June 23, 2001 | 20:33 | coastal Peru | -16.3 | -73.55 | 75 | 8.4 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| March 25, 2002 | 14:56 | Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan | 36.06 | 69.32 | 1,000 | 6.1 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| April 20, 2002 | 10:50 | Au Sable Forks, New York | 44.51 | -73.7 | 5.2 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| November 3, 2002 | 22:12 | Denali National Park, Alaska, USA | 63.52 | -147.44 | 7.9 | M (QED) | |
| May 21, 2003 | 18:44 | Boumerdès, Algeria see 2003 Algeria earthquake |
36.96 | 3.63 | 2,266 | 6.8 | M (QED) |
| September 25, 2003 | 19:50 | Hokkaidō, Japan | 41.82 | 143.91 | 8.3 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| November 17, 2003 | 06:43 | Rat Islands, Alaska, USA | 51.15 | 178.65 | 7.8 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) | |
| December 22, 2003 | 19:15 | San Simeon, California, USA | 35.71 | -121.10 | 2 | 6.6 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| December 26, 2003 | 01:56 | southeastern Iran see Bam: 2003 earthquake |
29.00 | 58.31 | 31,000 | 6.6 | M (PDE Monthly Listing) |
| September 28, 2004 | 17:15 | Parkfield, California, USA see Parkfield earthquake |
35.81 | -120.37 | 6.0 | M (QED) | |
| December 26, 2004 | 00:58 | off west coast northern Sumatra see 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake |
3.30 | 95.87 | 300,000 is the Minimum number of dead and missing according to several sources | 9.3 | M (QED) |
| May 12, 2008 | 14:28 | Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi China | 31.0 | 103.4 | 65,000 current estimate | 8.0 | M (QED) |
| March 28, 2005 | 16:09 | Northern Sumatra, Indonesia see 2005 Sumatra earthquake |
2.07 | 97.01 | 1,313 | 8.7 | M (QED) |
† MG-R = Gutenberg and Richter's (1954) magnitude, MS = 20 s surface-wave magnitude, M = moment magnitude (Hanks and Kanamori, 1979), and MI is an intensity magnitude, ML is local magnitude (Richter, 1935).
‡ GMT
* Fatalities estimated as high as 655,000.
Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) [1]
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| Date | Site | Deaths | Magnitude or intensity* | Comments | Source |
| 464 BC | Sparta, Greece | ? | – | Led to a helot uprising and strained relations with Athens, one of the factors that led to the Peloponnesian War | – |
| 226 BC | Rhodes, Greece | ? | – | Destroyed Colossus of Rhodes and city of Kameiros | – |
| 365 | Knossos, Crete (Greece) | "thousands" | XI | 365 Crete earthquake | Ammianus Marcellinus[1] and numerous other late antique writers[2] |
| 365 | Cyrene, Libya | ? | – | – | |
| May 19, 526 | Antioch, Syria | 250,000 | – | Procopius, II.14.6; sources based on John of Ephesus | |
| 844 | Damascus, Syria | 50,000 | VIII | – | |
| 847 | Mosul, Iraq | 50,000 | – | – | |
| 847 | Damascus, Syria | 70,000 | X | – | |
| 856 | Corinth, Greece | 45,000 | – | – | |
| 893 | Caucasus | 82,000 | – | – | |
| 893 | Udaipur, India | 180,000 | – | – | |
| 893 | Ardabil, Iran | 150,000 | – | – | |
| 1036 | Shanxi, China | 23,000 | – | – | |
| 1042 | Palmyra, Baalbek, Syria | 50,000 | X | – | |
| 1057 | Chihli (Hopeh), China | 25,000 | – | – | |
| 1138 | Ganzah, Aleppo, Syria | 230,000 | XI | ||
| 1156-1157 | Syria | ? | – | – | |
| 1170 | Sicily | 15,000 | – | – | |
| July 5, 1201 | Eastern Mediterranean | 1,100,000 | IX | Damage across a wide area from Syria to Upper Egypt | – |
| 1268 | Cilicia, Anatolia (Turkey) | 60,000 | – | 1268 Cilicia earthquake | – |
| September 27, 1290 | Chihli (Hopeh), China | 100,000 | 6.7 | – | |
| May 26, 1293 | Kamakura, Japan | 30,000 | – | – | |
| October 18, 1356 | Basel, Switzerland | 1,000 | 6.5 | Basel earthquake | – |
| May 21, 1382 | Canterbury, United Kingdom | ? | 5.8 | Struck during synod - later called "Earthquake Synod" - called to condemn heresy of John Wycliffe - some saw as portentious | [3]/[4] |
| September 10, 1509 | Istanbul, Turkey see 1509 Istanbul earthquake |
10,000 | 7.2 | – | |
| January 26, 1531 | Lisbon, Portugal | 30,000 | – | – | |
| July 13, 1605 | Qiongshan, Hainan, China | 3,000 | X | – | |
| April 6, 1667 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | 3,000 | 7,5 | – | |
| November 25, 1667 | Shemakha, Azerbaijan | 80,000 | XII | – | |
| June 7, 1692 | Port Royal, Jamaica | 30,000 | – | – | |
| January 11, 1693 | Catania Province, Sicily | 60,000 | – | – | |
| 1693 | Naples, Italy | 93,000 | – | – | |
| 1707 | Japan (seismic wave) | 30,000 | – | – | |
| December 30, 1730[citation needed] | Hokkaidō, Japan[citation needed] | 137,000[citation needed] | – | – | |
| 1731 | Beijing, China | 100,000 | – | – | |
| October 16, 1737 | Kamchatka, Russia | 9.3 | See Kamchatka earthquakes | – | |
| June 7, 1755 | Northern Persia | 40,000 | – | – | |
| November 18, 1755 | Boston, Massachusetts | 0 | – | – | |
| February 28, 1780 | Iran | 200,000 | – | Latitude: 38, longitude: 46.2 | – |
| February 4—5, March 28, 1783 | Calabria, Italy | 35,000 | – | – | |
| February 4, 1797 | Quito, Ecuador & Cuzco, Peru | 41,000 | – | – | |
| February 10, 1797 | Sumatra, East Indies (now Indonesia) | 300 | 8.4 | – | |
| November 22, 1800, 1:30 p.m. local time | San Diego, California, USA (lat. 34.00, long. 117.18) | Unknown | 6.5 | Resulted in varying levels of damage at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and Mission San Juan Capistrano | California Earthquake History 1769-Present |
| December 8, 1812, 9:45 a.m. local time | Wrightwood, California, USA (lat. 34.22, long. 117.39) | 42 | 7.0 | Destroyed the "Great Stone Church" at Mission San Juan Capistrano | Southern California Earthquake Data Center |
| December 21, 1812, 11:00 a.m. local time | Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA (lat. 34.12, long. 119.54) | 0 | 7.0 | Destroyed the church at Mission Santa Barbara, caused near-total destruction at Mission La Purísima Concepción, and considerable damage at Mission Santa Inés | Southern California Earthquake Data Center |
| November 25, 1833 | Sumatra, East Indies (now Indonesia) | 8.7 | – | ||
| May 8, 1847 | Zenkoji, Japan | more than 8,300 | 7.4 | 2,094 houses lost by fire with quake at Nagano | – |
| January 23, 1855 21:11 local time | Wairarapa, New Zealand | 4 | ~8.0 | Raised sections of Wellington coastline by 2 metres | – |
| November 11, 1855 | Ansei Edo, Japan | more than 4,700 | 6.9 | 10,000 house destroyed in Edo | 安政の大地震 in Japanese |
| February 16, 1861 | Sumatra, East Indies (now Indonesia) | 8.5 | – | ||
| September 9, 1880, 7:04 local time | Zagreb, Croatia | 1 | 6.3 | – | |
| April 4, 1905 | Kangra, India | 20,000 | 7.8 | Kangra district HQ Dharamsala devastated | [2] |
| June 11, 1909 | Lambesc, France | 46 | 6,2 | Highest magnitude earthquake ever recorded in continental France. 250 wounded. 2,000 buildings damaged | French Wikipedia article |
| February 3, 1931, 10:47 local time | Napier, New Zealand see Napier earthquake |
258 | 7.9 | Much of city destroyed; 40 km² of seabed raised to become dry land | – |
| December 25, 1932, | Gansu, China | 70,000 | 7.6 | – | |
| April 21, 1935, 6:02 local time | Shinchiku-Taichū, Taiwan | 3,279 | 7.1 | – | |
| December 20, 1942, | Turkey see NAFZ |
6.9 | – | ||
| November 26, 1943, | Turkey see NAFZ |
7.7 | – | ||
| January 15, 1944, 20:50 GMT-3 | San Juan, Argentina | 8,000 ~ 10,000 | IX (7.8) | The 30 second long earthquake destroyed 95% of the city, located 30 km form the epicentre. | – |
| February 1, 1944, | Turkey see NAFZ |
7.5 | – | ||
| August 17, 1949, | Turkey see NAFZ |
7.1 | – | ||
| August 13, 1951, | Turkey see NAFZ |
6.8 | – | ||
| August 8-August 12, 1953 | Kefalonia, Greece |
476 | 7.2 | 113 tremors over five days | – |
| May 26, 1957, | Turkey see NAFZ |
6.8 | – | ||
| July 26, 1963 | Skopje, Yugoslavia | 6.1 | see 1963 Skopje earthquake | – | |
| August 19, 1966, | Turkey see NAFZ |
6.6 | – | ||
| July 22, 1967, | Turkey see NAFZ |
7.0 | – | ||
| October 25 and 26, 1969, 16:30 and 8:00 local time | Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina | 1 and 20 | 6.2 and 7.0 | – | |
| May 22, 1971, | Turkey see NAFZ |
6.8 | – | ||
| December 23, 1972 | Managua, Nicaragua | 5,000 – 20,000 | 6.3 | Somoza mishandling of earthquake aid has been cited as a contributing factor to the Sandinista revolution; devastated largest city in Nicaragua (Managua) | – |
| June 30, 1975 | Norris Junction, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | 0 | 6.1 | Largest earthquake in Yellowstone Caldera since 1959 Hebgen Lake event | – |
| March 4, 1977 | Bucharest, Romania see 1977 Bucharest Earthquake |
1500 | 7.5 | Lasted ~5 minutes and left the capital devastated. | – |
| April 15, 1979 | Herceg Novi, Dubrovnik, Montenegro, Croatia | 100 | 5.6 | – | |
| December 28, 1989 | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | 13 | 5.6 | This is the only deadly Australian earthquake recorded to date | – |
| June 21, 1990 | Northwestern Iran; see Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake | 40000 | 7.7 | – | |
| March 13, 1992 | Turkey see NAFZ |
6.5 | – |
Note: Magnitudes are generally estimations from intensity data. When no magnitude was available, the maximum intensity, written as a Roman numeral from I to XII, is given.
[edit] Recent earthquakes not listed above
[edit] 2004
| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat. | Long. | Fatalities | Comments | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 5, 2004 | 19:07 (UTC), 23:57 (Local) | Off central Tōkai region, western Japan | 0 | 20+ injured, tsunami and flooding | 6.9 and 7.4 | ||
| October 8, 2004 | 15:35 | Mindoro, Philippines | 13.21 | 121.65 | — | Sporadic blackouts | 6.6 |
| October 9, 2004 | 22:26 | 80 kilometres southwest of Managua, Nicaragua | 12 | 86 | 0 | Minimal damage | 6.9 |
| October 23, 2004 | 17:56 | Ojiya, Japan see 2004 Chūetsu earthquake |
37.3 | 138.8 | 46 | 4801 injured; 103,000+ displaced | 6.9 |
| October 27, 2004 | 18:34 | Vrancea, Romania | 0 | Telephone service interrupted; felt also in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova and Turkey | 5.8 (Istanbul's Kandilli Observatory reported 6.5) | ||
| November 10, 2004 | 22:58 | Solomon Islands | 9 | 159 | 0 | No injuries nor damage | 6.9 |
| November 11, 2004 | 21:36 | 96 kilometres west-northwest of Dili, East Timor | 6 | 21 injured | 7.3 | ||
| November 15, 2004 | around 9:00 | off coast of Chocó, Colombia | 0 | 11+ injured, 18 homes destroyed, half near Buenaventura | 6.7 | ||
| November 21, 2004 | 45 kilometres north-northwest of Dominica | 1 | Half-dozen injured, damage also in Guadeloupe | 6.0 | |||
| November 21, 2004 | 48 kilometres south-southwest of San José, Costa Rica | 8 | Half-dozen injured | 6.2 | |||
| November 28, 2004 | 18:32 | 900 kilometres northwest of Tokyo, Japan, 50 km below sea level | 0 | 8 injured, utility services interrupted in hundreds of homes | 7.1 | ||
| December 23, 2004 | 14:59 | 495 kilometres north of Macquarie Island, SW of New Zealand | 50.24°S | 160.13°E | 0 | Minimal damage reported in southern New Zealand | 8.1 |
[edit] 2005
| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat. | Long. | Fatalities | Comments | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2005 | 21:00:23.9 | 114 kilometres southwest of Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada | 60.21°N | 139.50°W | 0 | No damage nor injuries | 5.5 |
| February 22, 2005 | 02:25:21 UTC, 05:55:21 Local Time | Zarand, Iran see 2005 Zarand earthquake |
30.726°N | 56.817°E | At least 790 | Hundreds injured, damage in some 40 villages, centered 150 miles from Bam, Iran | 6.4 |
| March 6, 2005 | 19:06:52 UTC, 3:06:52 AM Local Time | Near Sua-ho, Taiwan | 24.607°N | 121.859°E | 0 | Followed minutes later by a magnitude 5.4 aftershock. | 5.7 |
| March 6, 2005 | 06:17:49 UTC, 1:17:49 AM Local Time | Gaspé Peninsula, Canada | 47.750°N | 69.730°W | 0 | 102 km (63 miles) WNW (303°) from Fort Kent, Maine | 5.4 |
| March 20, 2005 | 01:53 UTC, 10:53 AM Local Time | Offshore of Fukuoka, Japan see Fukuoka earthquake |
33.54°N | 130.12°E | 1 | 1145 injured; 3000+ displaced | 7.0 |
| June 12, 2005 | 15:41 UTC, 8:41 AM Local Time | Anza, California, USA | 33.533°E | 116.578°SE | 0 | 5.2 | |
| June 13, 2005 | 22:44:33 UTC, 18:44:33 Local Time | Tarapacá, Chile | 19.896°S | 69.125°W | 11 | 115 km (70 miles) ENE of Iquique, Chile. | 7.8 |
| June 15, 2005 | 02:50:53 UTC, 18:50:53 Local Time June 14 | Offshore of Northern California, USA | 41.284°N | 125.983°W | 0 | 157 km (98 miles) WSW of Crescent City, California. | 7.2 |
| June 16, 2005 | 20:53 UTC, 01:53 PM | Yucaipa, California, USA | 34.058N | 117.011W | 5 km NE of Yucaipa, CA | 4.9 | |
| July 25, 2005 | 04:10:00 UTC, 10:10:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time local | Butte, Montana, USA | 45.35°N | 112.867°W | 0 | 77 km (48 miles) SSW of Butte, MT | 5.6 |
| August 16, 2005 | 02:46:30 UTC, 11:46:30 Local Time August 16 | Off the east coast of Honshū, Japan see Miyagi earthquake |
38.259°N | 148.980°E | 0 | 95 km (60 miles) E of Sendai, Miyagi. | 7.2 |
| September 25, 2005 | 01:56 UTC ,20:56 Local Time | Northern Peru | 2 | 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the jungle city of Moyobamba in the San Martín Region of Peru, and the earthquake struck an area about 715 km (445 miles) north of Lima. | 7.5 | ||
| October 8, 2005 | 03:50:38 UTC, 08:50:38 Local Time October 8 | Kashmir see 2005 Kashmir earthquake |
34.43°N | 73.54°E | >75000 | 19 km (11.8 miles) northeast of Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan | 7.6 |
| November 26, 2005 | 00:49:37 UTC, 08:49:37 Local Time | Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China | 29.7°N | 115.7°E | 13 | Midway between Ruichang County seat and Jiujiang City | 5.7 |
| December 5, 2005 | 12:19:55 UTC, 14:19:55 Local Time | Lake Tanganyika region see 2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake |
6.212°S | 29.599°E | 2 | 55 km (35 miles) SE of Kalemie, DR Congo | 6.8 |
[edit] 2006
| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat. | Long. | Fatalities | Comments | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 8, 2006 | 11:34:52 UTC, 13:34:52 Local Time | Southern Greece see 2006 Southern Greece earthquake |
36.250°N | 23.498°E | 195 km (120 miles) S of Athens | 6.9 | |
| February 23, 2006 | 00:19 Local Time | Northern Mozambique | 140 miles southwest of Beira | 7.5 | |||
| April 20, 2006 | 23:25:04 UTC | Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Russia see 2006 Kamchatka earthquakes |
61.075°N | 167.085°E | 0 | 195 km (120 miles) NE of Ilpyrskoye, Russia. Several aftershocks, up to 6.1 on the Richter Scale | 7.6 |
| May 3, 2006 | 15:26:39 UTC | Tonga | 20.130°S | 174.164°W | 0 | Several aftershocks, up to 6.0 on the Richter Scale | 7.9 |
| May 16, 2006 | 10:39:23 UTC | Kermadec Islands | 31.559°S | 179.296°W | 0 | 7.4 | |
| May 27, 2006 | 22:54:02 UTC | Java, Indonesia see May 2006 Java earthquake |
7.977°S | 110.318°E | 6234 | 25 km (15 miles) SSW of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, over 6,200 dead, 33,000 injured, more than 200,000 left homeless | 6.3 |
| Jul 17, 2006 | 08:19:25 UTC | South of Java, Indonesia see July 2006 Java earthquake |
9.334°S | 107.263°E | >400 | 225 km (140 miles) NE of Christmas Island; 240 km (150 miles) SSW of Tasikmalaya | 7.7 |
| Aug 11, 2006 | 14:30:39 UTC | Guerrero, Mexico | 18.486°N | 100.930°W | 0 | 75 km (45 miles) WNW of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico | 6.0 |
| Aug 11, 2006 | 20:54:12 UTC | Pulau Simeuleu, Sumatra, Indonesia | 2.374°N | 96.321°E | 0 | 285 km (175 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia | 6.0 |
| Aug 20, 2006 | 03:41:47 UTC | Scotia Sea | 61.023°S | 34.373°W | 0 | 495 km (305 miles) WSW of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands | 7.1 |
| September 10, 2006 | 14:56:07 UTC | Gulf of Mexico | 26.339°N | 86.568°W | 0 | 418 km (260 miles) WSW of Clearwater, Florida | 6.0 |
| October 15, 2006 | 17:07:48 UTC | Hawaii (See 2006 Hawaii earthquake) | 19.801°N | 156.053°W | 0 | 6.7 | |
| November 15, 2006 | 11:14:16 UTC | Kuril Islands | 46.616°N | 153.224°E | 0 | Small tsunami hit Northern Japan, several aftershocks as strong as magnitude 6.3 | 8.3 |
| November 29, 2006 | 07:22:55 UTC | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada | 46.48°N | 81.17°W | 0 | Epicentre near Lively. No major damage; reported to have been felt as far as Toronto. | 4.1 |
| December 26, 2006 | 12:26:21 UTC | 91 km (56 miles) SSE of Kaohsiung, Taiwan See:2006 Hengchun earthquake | 21.818°N | 120.534°E | 2 | Phone service & Internet service interrupted; items knocked off shelves; three buildings destroyed; magnitude 7.0 aftershock struck eight minutes later. | 7.1 |
[edit] 2007
| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat. | Long. | Fatalities | Comments | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2007 | 04:23:20 UTC | East of the Kuril Islands | 46.288°N | 154.448°E | 0 | Several aftershocks up to magnitude 6. Tsunami warnings issued for the entire Pacific basin. The second great earthquake to strike this region in three months. | 8.2 |
| January 20, 2007 | 20:56:51 Local Time | Gangwon-do,South Korea | 37.75°N | 128.69°E | 0 | 4.8 | |
| January 21, 2007 | 07:39:00 UTC | Province of Agri, Turkey | 39.803°N | 42.807°E | 0 | Demolished homes in several villages | 5.1 |
| January 21, 2007 | 11:27:42 UTC | Molucca Sea | 1.207°N | 126.292°E | 4 | Preceded by a magnitude 6 foreshock. Several aftershocks up to magnitude 6.2. | 7.5 |
| February 12, 2007 | 11:27:42 UTC | Cabo de São Vicente, Portugal | 36.09°N | 10.26°E | Main: 2007 Iberian Peninsula earthquake | 6.1 | |
| March 6, 2007 | 05:49:28 UTC | Sumatra, Indonesia | 0.490°S | 100.529°E | >60 | Main: March 2007 Sumatra earthquakes Followed by a magnitude 6.3 aftershock and several smaller ones. Widespread damage to homes, communication lines, and travel ways in Sumatra. Thousands forced to flee their homes. |
6.4 |
| March 25, 2007 | 00:40:02 (UTC) | Vanuatu | 20.597°S | 169.413°E | 0 | 7.2 | |
| March 25, 2007 | 00:42:02 (UTC) | Off the west coast of Honshū, Japan | 37.537°N | 136.438°E | 1 | Main: 2007 Noto earthquake 110 injured. Tsunami warnings issued for the nearby coastal areas, 6-inch tsunami hit shore closest to epicenter. |
6.7 |
| April 1, 2007 | 20:39:56 (UTC) | Solomon Islands | 8.474°S | 156.950°E | >28 | Main: 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake Followed by a magnitude 6.7 aftershock. Tsunami destroyed at least 60 buildings and left at least 2,000 people homeless. 10 to 20 remain missing. |
8.1 |
| April 13, 2007 | 05:42:23 (UTC) | Guerrero, Mexico | 17.353°N | 100.101°W | 0 | Followed by a magnitude 5.4 aftershock. Extensive power outages in Mexico City and Acapulco, but no serious damage. | 6.0 |
| April 20, 2007 | 01:45:56 (UTC) | Southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan | 25.714°N | 125.250°E | 0 | Preceded by a magnitude 6 foreshock, followed by many aftershocks up to magnitude 5.9. | 6.1 |
| April 28, 2007 | 07:18:11 (UTC) | Kent, United Kingdom | 51.080°N | 1.170°E | 0 | Main: 2007 Kent earthquake 474 houses reported as having toppled chimneys and cracked walls; 73 of these were deemed too dangerous for the residents to return. |
4.2 |
| May 16, 2007 | 08:56:18 (UTC) | Laos | 20.470°N | 100.703°E | 0 | Caused buildings to sway as far away as Bangkok. There were widespread evacuations, but no reports of significant damage. | 6.3 |
| June 2, 2007 | 21:34:58 (UTC) | Yunnan, China | 23.013°N | 101.053°E | 2 | 2 killed, over 200 more injured (15 seriously). Significant damage to some houses and roads, as well as electrical lines, communication lines, and water pipes. | 6.2 |
| June 13, 2007 | 19:29:46 (UTC) | Offshore Guatemala | 13.628°N | 90.732°W | 0 | Phone communications down throughout Guatemala. Many houses damaged and some people possibly missing. Shaking felt into El Salvador and waveform registered as far away as Midway Island. A magnitude 5.8 quake struck the same area five days beforehand. | 6.8 |
| July 6, 2007 | 01:09:21 (UTC) | Chiapas, Mexico | 16.678°N | 93.479°W | 0 | Power and phone service knocked out. Buildings and businesses in three Mexican states evacuated. | 6.1 |
| July 16, 2007 | 01:13:28 (UTC) | Honshū, Japan | 37.574°N | 138.440°E | 9 | Main: 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake Many wooden buildings collapsed. Hundreds of people trapped and injured, with 9 confirmed dead. 50cm waves hit shores near the epicenter. Fires broke out near the Kashiwazaki nuclear power station, causing a small leak of radioactive material into the sea. Aftershocks up to magnitude 5.8; a magnitude 6.8 quake struck further west several hours later, but caused no damage due to its large depth. |
6.6 |
| July 18, 2007 | 20:30:00 (EAT) | Nairobi, Kenya | 1°17′0″S, | 36°49′0″E | 0 | The current largest event of an ongoing earthquake swarm, possibly as a result of volcanic activity on Ol Doinyo Lengai volcanic mountain in Northern Tanzania. Tremor occurrences began on July 12, 2007. Shook buildings and caused panic in East Africa | 5.9 |
| July 20, 2007 | 04:40:00 Local | San Francisco, California | 37°48′4″N, | 122°11′3″W | 0 | Slight damage, no injuries reported. | 4.2 |
| August 1, 2007 | 17:08:54 (UTC) | Vanuatu | 15.671°S | 167.602°E | 0 | No tsunami threat - while the hypocenter was offshore, it was too deep to cause enough surface displacement for a tsunami. | 7.2 |
| August 2, 2007 | 02:37:43 (UTC) | Tatar Strait, Russia | 47.259°N | 141.750°E | 1 | Followed by a magnitude 6.1 aftershock and several smaller ones. 12-inch tsunami hit northern Japan. Several injuries and one fatality from a collapsed roof in the Russian town of Nevelsk. | 6.2 |
| August 8, 2007 | 17:04:58 (UTC) | Java, Indonesia | 5.968°S | 107.655°E | 0 | Felt throughout west and central Java. Hypocenter too deep to set off tsunami warnings. | 7.5 |
| August 15, 2007 | 23:40:58 UTC | 40.2 km (25 miles) northwest of Chincha Alta, Peru | 13.322°S | 76.508°W | 519 | Main: 2007 Peru earthquake 519 people killed with 1,366 injured. Followed by a large number of aftershocks larger than magnitude 5, the strongest of which measured 6.3. Tsunami warnings for Chile, Peru, Hawaii, other areas of Central and South America were later cancelled. |
8.0 |
| September 12, 2007 | 11:10:23 (UTC) | Sumatra, Indonesia | 4.517°S | 101.382°E | 23 | Main: September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes Buildings swayed in Jakarta. Many buildings collapsed on the west coast of Sumatra. At least 23 dead, and over a hundred injured. Tsunami alert issued for the entire Indian Ocean region. Followed by two other earthquakes measuring 7.9 and 7.0, and over a hundred aftershocks. |
8.5 |
| September 28, 2007 | 13:38:58 UTC | Mariana Islands | 21.980°N | 142.685°E | 0 | This was a deep focus earthquake, thus no Tsunami warnings were issued. A magnitude 6.9 occurred further South of the islands on September 30. | 7.4 |
| September 30, 2007 | 5:23:36 UTC | Auckland Islands, New Zealand | 49.394°S | 163.842°E | 0 | Followed by a magnitude 6.6 aftershock. | 7.4 |
| October 15, 2007 | 12:29 UTC | Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand | 44.68°S | 167.21°E | 0 | Followed by 7 major aftershocks all being above magnitude 4, with the largest being 6.2. | 6.7 |
| October 24, 2007 | 21:02:51 UTC | Southern Sumatra, Indonesia | 3.909°S | 101.061°E | 0 | Considered to be an aftershock of the magnitude 8.5 quake that struck the same region on September 12, 2007. | 6.8 |
| October 31, 2007 | 03:04:54 UTC | Alum Rock, California, USA | 37.4325°N | 121.7757°W | 0 | Occurred on the Calaveras Fault. No major damage. Largest quake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. | 5.4 |
| October 31, 2007 | 03:30:20 UTC | Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands | 18.854°N | 145.315°E | 0 | Deep enough to not warrant a tsunami warning. | 7.2 |
| November 14, 2007 | 15:40:53 UTC | Antofagasta, Chile | 22.189°S | 69.843°W | 2 | Main: 2007 Antofagasta earthquake Two killed, dozens more injured, at least 4,000 left homeless. A tsunami warning was initially issued for the whole south Pacific, but was lifted within an hour. |
7.7 |
| November 25, 2007 | 16:02:18 UTC | Sumbawa, Indonesia | 8.294°S | 118.360°E | 3 | Two earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 occurring within hours of each other. At least 3 killed, hundreds injured and many houses destroyed. | 6.5 and 6.5 |
| November 29, 2007 | 19:00:19 UTC | Martinique Region, Windward Islands | 14.951°N | 61.241°W | 1 | Strongest earthquake to affect the Eastern Caribbean in decades. Widespread moderate to locally severe damage reported throughout Martinique and Dominica with furthest reports of damage coming from Barbados 274 km from the epicenter where landslips caused partial collapse of apartment buildings. Felt from Puerto Rico in the north to as far as Guyana and Venezuela in the south. No tsunami warning issued due to the deep hypocenter of the earthquake [5]. | 7.4 |
| December 9, 2007 | 02:03:29 UTC | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 15.049°S | 44.199°W | 1 | One killed, six more injured, six houses completely leveled. Sixty residents in two small towns near the epicenter were evacuated. | 4.9 |
| December 9, 2007 | 07:28:24 UTC | South of the Fiji Islands | 26.156°S | 177.453°W | 0 | 7.8 | |
| December 19, 2007 | 09:30:30 UTC | Andreanof Islands, Aleutians, Alaska | 51.495°N | 179.473°W | 0 | 7.2 |
[edit] 2008
| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat. | Long. | Fatalities | Comments | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 5, 2008 | 11:01:05 UTC | Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada | 51.299°N | 130.713°W | 0 | Two earthquakes of magnitude 6.6 and 6.4 occurring within 45 minutes of each other. The first was preceded by a magnitude 5.6 foreshock approx 20 minutes before. Aftershocks of magnitude 5.0. | 6.6 and 6.4 |
| January 6, 2008 | 05:14:17 UTC | Athens, Greece | 37.150°N | 22.934°W | 0 | 6.5 [6] | |
| February 3, 2008 | 07:34:12 UTC | Lac Kivu region, Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2.314°S | 28.896°E | >39 | Main: 2008 Lake Kivu earthquake At least 39 killed and over 300 injured. Many buildings - commercial, religious, and residential - destroyed. Followed by several destructive aftershocks up to magnitude 5.0. |
6.0 |
| February 14, 2008 | 13:34 UTC | Kalamata, Greece | 36.646°N | 21.833°E | 0 | 6.5 and 6.4 [7] | |
| February 20, 2008 | 08:08:31 UTC | Simeulue, Indonesia | 2.751°N | 95.966°E | 3 | Quake lasted for almost a minute. Strongly felt more than 300 km (185 miles) away in Banda Aceh, where people left their offices after buildings started shaking. Precautionary tsunami alerts for Indonesia and nearby coastal areas were briefly issued. [8] | 7.5 |
| February 20, 2008 | 15:26:52 UTC | Storfjorden, Svalbard (Norway) | 77.41°N | 14.48°E | 0 | The quake's epicenter was about 140 km south-east of Longyearbyen. The quake may be Norway's biggest quake in a hundred years. | 6.2 |
| February 21, 2008 | 14:16:05 UTC | Wells, Nevada, USA | 41.076°N | 114.771°W | 0 | Earthquake near Wells, Nevada. It was the largest earthquake in the continental United States since the M6.6 June 17, 2005 earthquake offshore northern California. | 6.0 |
| February 27, 2008 | 00:56:45 UTC | Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, UK | 53.321°N | 0.314°W | 0 | Main: 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake Earthquake reported 15 km north east of Lincoln. Tremor felt across the UK, as far north as Newcastle-upon-Tyne and south as London. Quake lasted for approximately 20 seconds.[9] |
5.2 |
| April 18, 2008 | 09:36:56 UTC (04:36:56 Central) | Southeastern Illinois | 38.481°N | 87.826°W | 0 | Main: 2008 Illinois earthquake Earthquake centered 66 km (41 miles) NNW of Evansville, Indiana, near the village of West Salem, Illinois. It was felt widespread across southern Illinois and eastern portions of Missouri including St. Louis, 203 km (126 miles) away. Aftershocks were felt as far south as Tennessee and Georgia in the United States and Ontario in Canada.[10][11][12] |
5.2 |
| May 7, 2008 | 16:45:00 UTC | Tokyo, Japan | 36.141°N | 141.540°E | 0 | Earthquake centered 100 miles of the coast of Japan at depth of 25 miles. Half an hour later hit another quake in the same area measuring a magnitude of 5.2. Two people got injured from falling furniture. This was the strongest earthquake in Tokyo since 1923 Great Kantō earthquake[13]. | 6.8 |
| May 12, 2008 | 06:28:00 UTC | Sichuan Province, China | 31.099°N | 103.279°E | 69,136+ | Main: 2008 Sichuan earthquake Earthquake centered 92 km northwest of Chengdu. Felt as far away as Beijing and Shanghai, where office buildings swayed with the impact[14][15]. So far more than 7,000 aftershocks[16][17] have been recorded, including 110 strong aftershocks and a 6.0Mw aftershock on May 25, killing eight people, injuring hundreds, and causing billions in damage[18][19]. Fatalities last updated 9th June 2008. |
8.0 |
| May 24, 2008 | 19:20:46 UTC | El Calvario, Colombia (50 km from Bogota) | 4.447°N | 73.670°W | 6 | Main: 2008 El Calvario earthquake Preceded by a foreshock of magnitude 4.0 roughly two hours before. |
5.9 |
| May 29, 2008 | 15:46 UTC | Selfoss, Southern Iceland (30 miles from Reykjavik) | 63.992°N | 21.014°W | 0 | Main: 2008 Iceland earthquake Demolished and considerably damaged homes and up to 30 minor injuries reported. Followed by a number of aftershocks around magnitude 4. Buildings and businesses evacuated and people were advised to stay outside by the civil defence. |
6.3 |
| June 8, 2008 | 13:25 UTC | Peloponnese reigon, 32 km SW of Patras | 38.029°N | 21.464°E | 2 | Main: 2008 Peloponnese earthquake Caused damage, injured at least 220, and made at least 2,000 homeless. |
6.1 |
[edit] Largest earthquakes by magnitude
| Pos. | Date | Location | Magnitude |
| 1 | May 22, 1960 | Valdivia, Chile (see: 1960 Valdivia earthquake) | 9.5 |
| 2 | December 26, 2004 | Off 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: Good Friday 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, 1957 | Andreanof 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 | 8.6 |
| 15 | December 16, 1575 | Valdivia, Chile | 8.5 |
| 15 | September 12, 2007 | Sumatra, Indonesia | 8.5 |
* Scientists have not yet agreed on an official magnitude.
[edit] Deadliest earthquakes on record
| Rank | Name | Date | Location | Fatalities | Magnitude | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Shaanxi" | January 23, 1556 | Shaanxi, China | 830,000 | 8 | |
| 2 | "Tangshan" | July 27, 1976 | Tangshan, China | 255,000 (official) | 7.5 | Estimated 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 | 9.3 | Deaths from earthquake and tsunami. |
| 4 | "Aleppo" | August 9, 1138 | Aleppo, Syria | 230,000 | 8.5 | Death 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 | 8.6 | Major fractures, landslides. | |
| 7 | "Ardabil" | March 23, 893+ | Ardabil, Iran | 150,000 | ||
| 8 | "Great Kantō" | September 1, 1923 | Kantō, 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 7.8 | 3.5 million people homeless, 100,000 feared dead |
| Source: USGS [3] | ||||||
[edit] See also
- List of earthquakes by death toll
- List of all known deadly earthquakes since 1900
- List of earthquakes in Argentina
- List of earthquakes in Chile
- List of earthquakes in the United Kingdom
- List of earthquakes in the United States
- Historic tsunami
[edit] References
- ^ Ammianus Marcellinus, "Res Gestae", 26.10.15-19
- ^ For summaries of the sources, see: Stiros, Stathis C.: “The AD 365 Crete earthquake and possible seismic clustering during the fourth to sixth centuries AD in the Eastern Mediterranean: a review of historical and archaeological data”, Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 23 (2001), pp. 545-562 (557f., App. A)
- ^ "Earthquake Synod." In Cross, F. L. and E. A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford UP, 1974. p. 437
- ^ De Hamel, Christopher. The Book. A History of the Bible. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001. p. 169
- ^ http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/caribe/2007/caribe.2007.11.29.190944.txt
- ^ "Greece hit by strong earthquake", BBC.com, 2008-01-06. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
- ^ "Strong earthquake strikes Greece", BBC.com, 2008-02-14. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ "Three killed by Indonesian quake", BBC.com, 2008-02-20. Retrieved on 2008-02-20.
- ^ "Earth tremor felt across England", BBC.com, 2008-02-27. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
- ^ Television reports, KSDK, "Early Today", "Today in St. Louis", April 18, 2008
- ^ http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxPvXBa_kwldln7jw_kNT0EsoE1QD90472KG0
- ^ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008qza6/
- ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/japan.quake.ap/
- ^ "Strong earthquake hits southwest China", http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSPEK23117420080512, May 12, 2008
- ^ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00057368.php
- ^ "大地震至今7千多次餘震", Sina.com, 2008-05-20. Retrieved on 2008-05-21. (Chinese)
- ^ Earthquake List for 10-degree Map Centered at 30°N, 105°E. USGS (2008-05-30 16:11:14 UTC). Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ "Aftershocks demolish China homes", BBC, 2008-05-27. Retrieved on 2008-05-28.
- ^ Amid Tremors, a City Trembles With Dread. New York Times (2008-05-26). Retrieved on 2008-05-26.
[edit] External links
- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
- Earthquakes Canada
- Earthquakes in India
- IRIS Seismic Monitor, Recent earthquakes around the world
- Recent New Zealand earthquakes
- SeismoArchives, Seismogram Archives of Significant Earthquakes of the World
- USGS list of current earthquakes
- USGS list of earthquakes magnitude 6.0 and greater sorted by magnitude
- Earthquake Panic Grips Kenya and Tanzania
- NOAA Significant Earthquakes Global Database, over 6500 events
- Santiago de Cuba earthquake of 11 June 1766
- Database for the damage of world earthquake, ancient period (3000 BC) to year of 2006- Building Research Institute (Japan) (建築研究所) in Japanese
