Date | Earthquake name | Mw | Casualtiesa |
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2001/01/26 | Gujarat/India | 7.7 | 13,805~20,023(1) |
2003/12/26 | Bam/Iran | 6.6 | 31,824~ 43,000(2) |
2004/12/26 | Indian Ocean/Indonesia | 9.1~ 9.3 | 230,000~280,000(1)(3) |
2005/10/08 | Kashmir/Pakistan | 7.6 | Up to ~ 88,000(1)(3) |
2008/05/12 | Wenchuan/China | 7.9 | Up to ~ 88,000(1)(3) |
2010/01/12 | Port-au-Prince/Haiti | 7.0 | 100,000~316,000(1)(3) |
2011/03/11 | Tohoku-Oki/Japan | 9.0–9.1 | ~ 18,500 (837b)(4) |
- (1) USGS (4 September 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1
- (2) Bam Earthquake, Encyclopaedia Iranica, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bam-earthquake-2003
- (3) Earthquakes with 50,000 or more deaths, USGS, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/most_destructive.php
- (4) “Damage Situation and Police Countermeasures. 9 March 2018” National Police Agency of Japan. Retrieved 19 March 2018. (from “deaths” template)
- aThe casualty estimates are rough figures including missing people, and may be different depending on the document sources. The superscripts indicate the references
- bVictims due to building collapses or landslides