100 Years of Earthquakes

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Japan's earthquake shook the entire world. We talked about it here. Photographs of the earth and air.
Summary of the Geological Society of London of the most powerful earthquake in the last 100 years. In order to understand the power of aftershocks - a little help.
What is the magnitude of 1. If it is very rude - imagine that you have jumped to the floor apartments with closet. Your neighbors will feel virtually no vibration. Earthquake at 2 points almost palpable. The increase in magnitude at 1.0 corresponds to an increase in amplitude in 10-fold increase in energy is about 32 times. In Japan it was 9.1.

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1. April 18, 1906, San Francisco.

At 5:12 am in San Francisco there was a major earthquake, whose magnitude was 7.8 on the Richter scale. Tremors were felt even in the middle of Nevada, located deep in the continent. As a result of the disaster, almost 80% of the buildings in the city of San Francisco was destroyed, their homes were 300 000, 3000 - died.

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2. December 28, 1908, Messina, Italy.

Epicenter of the earthquake with magnitude 7.5 points located in the strait between Sicily and the peninsula. As a result of this earthquake, which is considered the most powerful European earthquake, were almost completely destroyed the city of Messina and Reggio Calabria. In Messina lost almost half of the residents. The total number of victims is estimated at 70 -100 000 people (some sources name the figure to 200 thousand).

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3. September 1, 1923, Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan.

This earthquake of magnitude 8.3 points still called the Great Kanto earthquake, as the Japanese Kanto province most affected by the strike element. For two days there was 356 aftershocks, and the height of the tsunami in Sagami Bay has reached 12 meters. The death toll in the disaster is estimated at 142,800 people.

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4. Quetta, Pakistan, in 1936.

The earthquake completely destroyed the city's infrastructure, the death toll to nearly 40,000 people, with damage estimated at U.S. $ 25 million.

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5. Concepcion, Chile, 1939.

Magnitude quake was 8.3 points. Killed 28 000 people, the damage amounted to nearly $ 100 million.

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6. December 26, 1939 Erzincan, Turkey.

The city routinely had to endure the powerful earthquake. In 1939, the element has claimed the lives of 36 to 39 thousand people.

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7. February 29, 1960, Agadir, Morocco.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 points only lasted 15 seconds, but the death toll was 15,000 people, injured 12,000, 35,000 were left homeless.

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8. Chimbote, Peru, 1970.

An earthquake measuring 7.7 points seriously damaged the fishing industry enterprises, which caused unemployment and impoverishment of the population for several years. At the time of the earthquake killed 67,000 people, with damage estimated at $ 550 million.

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9. July 27, 1976, Tien Shan, China.

This earthquake of magnitude 8.2 in the score is considered one of the largest by number of victims in the history of observations. Then the element has claimed more than 650,000 lives.

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10. February 4, 1976, Guatemala.

The earthquake of magnitude 7.5 stars died more than 22 thousand people, and 70,000 were injured. Damage estimated at 1.1 billion dollars.

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11. September 19, 1985 Mexico City, Mexico.

This earthquake of magnitude 8.1 score is considered one of the most devastating earthquakes of America. The number of dead was then 9,000 people and injured were 30,000 and 100,000 were left homeless.

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12. December 7, 1988, Spitak, Armenia.

Magnitude of a catastrophic Spitak earthquake was 7.2 magnitude. The city of Spitak and 58 villages were completely destroyed. The number of dead reached 25 thousand and 514 thousand were left homeless. Damage was estimated at 14 billion dollars.

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13. October 17, 1989, San Francisco, California, USA.

Earthquake, magnitude of which was 7.1 magnitude, occurred just before the baseball game "World Series", so in the U.S., this earthquake is also called the "earthquake World Series." In comparison with other earthquake victims was not much: 68 people. Tremors were completely destroyed by a network of roads, and the overall material damage estimated at $ 6 billion.

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14. January 17, 1995, earthquake in Kobe - one of the largest in Japan.

Magnitude quake was 7.3 points. Killed 6,434 people, damage totaled $ 200 million.