| Date |
Site |
Losses |
Magnitude
in Richter
|
Comments |
| 226 BC |
Rhodes, Greece |
? |
– |
Destroyed Colossus of Rhodes and city of Kameiros[?] |
| 365 |
Cyrene, Libya |
? |
– |
| 526 - May 20 |
Antiochia, Syria |
250,000 |
–
|
| 856 |
Corynth, Greece |
45,000 |
– |
| 1268 |
Cilicia, Asia Minor |
60,000 |
– |
| 1290 - September 27 |
Chihli[?], China |
100,000 |
– |
| 1556 - January 23 |
Shaanxi and Kansu, China |
850,000 |
9.0 |
The most devastating earthquake in history |
| 1667 - November 23 |
Caucaso[?] and Shemakha[?], Italy |
80,000 |
– |
| 1692 - June 7 |
Port Royal, Jamaica |
1,000-3,000 |
– |
Destroyed and submerged most of Port Royal; see that article for more. |
| 1693 - January 11 |
Catania, Italy |
60,000 |
– |
| 1730 - December 30 |
Hokkaido, Japan |
137,000 |
– |
| 1737 - October 11 |
Calcutta, India |
300,000 |
– |
| 1755 - November 1 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
60,000 |
8.0 |
mentioned by Voltaire in Candide |
| 1822 - September 5 |
Echigo[?], Japan |
30,000 |
– |
| 1855 |
Wellington, New Zealand |
1 |
8.2 |
| 1868 - August 13-15 |
Ecuador and Peru |
40,000 |
– |
| 1887 - February 23 |
French Riviera[?] |
2,000 |
– |
| 1887 - May 3 |
Sonora, Mexico |
42 |
7.4 |
| 1905 - April 4 |
Kangra[?], India |
370,000. |
|
| 1906 - April 18 |
San Francisco, California, USA |
|
- |
| 1908 - December 27 |
Messina, Italy |
86,926 |
7.5 |
| 1920 - December 16 |
Gansu, China |
100,000 |
8.6 |
| 1923 - September 11 |
Yokohama, Japan |
200,000 |
8.3 |
| 1927 - May 22 |
Nan-Shan[?], China |
200,000 |
8.3 |
| 1931 |
Managua, Nicaragua |
|
|
| 1931 - February 3 |
Napier, New Zealand |
258 |
7.9 |
see Napier earthquake
|
| 1932 - December 26 |
Kansu, China |
70,000 |
7.6 |
| 1935 - May 31 |
Quetta, India |
50,000 |
7.5 |
| 1948 |
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
86,926 |
7.5 |
| 1960 - May 22 |
Chile |
1,500 |
9.5 |
Known as the Great Chilean Earthquake[?]; most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Tsunamis caused deaths as far away as Hawaii and Japan. |
| 1964 |
Anchorage, Alaska, USA |
125 |
9.2 |
Most powerful earthquake in U.S. history, known as the Good Friday Earthquake |
| 1966 |
Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
|
- |
| 1968 |
Sicily, Italy; Gibellina, Belice |
|
- |
| 1970 - May 31 |
Northern Peru |
66,794 |
7.7 |
| 1972 - December 23 |
Managua, Nicaragua |
10,000 |
|
the city was almost completely destroyed |
| 1976 - July 28 |
Tangshan[?], China |
242,769 |
8.2 |
| 1977 - March 4 |
southern and eastern Europe |
1,50 |
|
| 1985 - September 19 |
near Mexico City, Mexico |
10,000 |
7.5 |
| 1988 - December 7 |
North-Western Armenia |
55,000 |
6.8 |
| 1989 - October 17 |
Loma Prieta (Santa Cruz) California |
63 |
6.9 |
Caused the collapse of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, and the Nimitz Freeway[?] in Oakland, California. Largest quake on the San Andreas Fault since the 1906 San Francisco quake. |
| 1990 - June 20 |
North-Western Iran |
50,000 |
7.7 |
| 1992 - March 13 |
Eastern Turkey |
~540 |
6.8 |
| 1993 - September 29 |
Maharashtra, India |
9,748 |
6.4 |
| 1995 - January 17 |
Kobe, Osaka, and Kyoto, Japan |
5,477 |
7.2 |
called the Great Hanshin earthquake |
| 1995 - May 28 |
Neftegorsk[?], Russia |
~2,000 |
7.6 |
Killed 2/3rd of the town's population |
| 1997 - May 10-11 |
Northern Iran |
4,000 |
7.5 |
| 1998 - February 4-8 |
Takhar[?], Afghanistan |
2,323 |
6.1 |
| 1998 - May 30 |
Afghanistan |
4,700 |
6.9 |
| 1999 - August 17 |
Turkey |
15,000 |
7.8 |
| 1999 - September 20 |
Taiwan |
2,474 |
7.6 |
| 2000 - February 13 |
El Salvador |
400 |
6.6 |
| 2001 - January 13 |
El Salvador |
5,000 |
7.7 |
| 2001 - January 26 |
Gujarat, India |
20,103 |
7.7 |
| 2003 - May 21 |
Algeria |
2,000 |
6.8 |
