Earthquake

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Specific earthquake articles

• Shaanxi earthquake (1556). Deadliest known earthquake in history, estimated to have killed 830,000 in China.
• Cascadia Earthquake (1700).
• Kamchatka earthquakes (1737 and 1952).
• Lisbon earthquake (1755).
• New Madrid Earthquake (1811).
• Fort Tejon Earthquake (1857).
• Charleston earthquake (1886). Largest earthquake in the Southeast and killed 100.
• San Francisco Earthquake (1906).
• Great Kanto earthquake (1923). On the Japanese island of Honshu, killing over 140,000 in Tokyo and environs.
• Ancash earthquake (1970). Caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay, Peru; killed over 40,000 people.
• Kamchatka earthquakes (1952 and 1737).
• Great Chilean Earthquake (1960). Biggest earthquake ever recorded, 9.5 on Moment magnitude scale.
• Good Friday Earthquake (1964) Alaskan earthquake.
• Sylmar earthquake (1971). Caused great and unexpected destruction of freeway bridges and flyways in the San Fernando Valley, leading to the first major seismic retrofits of these types of structures, but not at a sufficient pace to avoid the next California freeway collapse in 1989.
• Tangshan earthquake (1976). The most destructive earthquake of modern times. The official death toll was 255,000, but many experts believe that two or three times that number died.
• Great Mexican Earthquake (1985). 8.1 on the Ritcher Scale, killed over 6,500 people (though it is believed as many as 30,000 may have died, due to missing people never reappearing.)
• Whittier Narrows earthquake (1987).
• Armenian earthquake (1988). Killed over 25,000.
• Loma Prieta earthquake (1989). Severely affecting Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Oakland in California. Revealed necessity of accelerated seismic retrofit of road and bridge structures.
• Northridge, California earthquake (1994). Damage showed seismic resistance deficiencies in modern low-rise apartment construction.
• Great Hanshin earthquake (1995). Killed over 6,400 people in and around Kobe, Japan.
• İzmit earthquake (1999) Killed over 17,000 in northwestern Turkey.
• Düzce earthquake (1999)
• Chi-Chi earthquake (1999).
• Nisqually Earthquake (2001).
• Gujarat Earthquake (2001).
• Dudley Earthquake (2002).
• Bam Earthquake (2003).
• Parkfield, California earthquake (2004). Not large (6.0), but the most anticipated and intensely instrumented earthquake ever recorded and likely to offer insights into predicting future earthquakes elsewhere on similar slip-strike fault structures.
• Chuetsu Earthquake (2004).
• Indian Ocean Earthquake (2004). One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded at 9.0. Epicenter off the coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra. Triggered a tsunami which caused nearly 300,000 deaths spanning several countries.
• Sumatran Earthquake (2005).
• Fukuoka earthquake (2005).
• South Asia earthquake (2005).

See also List of earthquakes

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