EARTHQUAKES

DATE YEAR LOCATION DEAD PROPERTY RICHTER

THOUSANDS MILLIONS SCALE


1700 BC. Crete severe

1700 BC. Egypt major

373 BC. Helice, Greece

17 A.D. Philadelphia, Asia Minor

363 AD Petra, Jordan

365 Knossos, Crete 50

7/21 365 Kourion, Cyprus 3000 7

403 Constantinople (Chrysostom exiled)

5/20 526 Antioch, Syria 250

528 Antioch, Syria

844 Damascas, Syria 50

847 Mosul, Iraq 50

847 Damascas, Syria 50

856 Corinth, Greece 45

856 Qumis, Damghan, Iran 200

893 Caucasus, Russia 51

893 Daipur, India 180

893 Ardabil, Iran 150

1038 Shansi, China 23

1042 Palmyra, Baalbek, Syria 50

1057 Chihli, China 25

1138 Ganzah, Aleppo, Syria 230

1170 Sicily, Italy 15

1201 Upper Egypt, or Syria 1000

1257 Kamakura, Japan

1268 Cilicia, modern Turkey 60

9/27 1290 Chihli, China 100 6.75

5/20 1293 Kamakura, Japan 30

1400 Ethiopia

1456 Naples, Italy 60

1/26 1531 Lisbon, Portugal 30

12/10 1542 Sicily, Italy

1/23-24 1556 Shaanxi, China 830 XI

1562 Santiago de los Caballeros Dominican Repub.

1563 Cattaro, Montenegro, Yugoslavia devastated

4/6 1580 Belgium

1647 Santiago chile severe equake

6/21 1660 Pyrenees

11 1667 Shemaka, Azerbaijan, Russia 80 6.9

1667 Cattaro, Montenegro, Yugoslavia devastated

1668 Shantung, China 50 XII

1678 Lahijan, Iran large

1692 Port Royal, Jamaica -destroyed city

9/8 1692 Belgium

1/11 1693 Catania, Italy 59.963

1693 Naples, Italy 96.5 XI

1694 Italy

1703 Jeddo, Japan 200

1727 Tabriz, Iran 77

12/30 1730 Hokkaido, Japan 137

1731 Beijing, China 100

10/11 1737 Calcutta, India 300

1739 China 50

1746 Callao, Peru Equake+tidal wave 6

6/7 1755 Northern Iran 40

11/1 1755 Lisbon, Portugal 58 8.75

1759 Baalbek, Syria severe

9/14 1777 Manchester, England 0 IV to V

1780 Tabriz, NW Iran 100

2/4 1783 Calabria, Southern Italy 50

11-7 1788 Ethiopia

2/4 1797 Quito, Ecuador 41

12/16,1/23,2/7 1811 New Madrid, Missouri 0.01 7.95

1816 Luhuo, Suchang China 2.9

1819 Cutch, India 1.5

9/5 1822 Aleppo, Asia Minor 22

12/28 1828 Echigo, Honshu, Japan 30

1836 N.East Bay California 7

1836 N. Japan 28.321

1847 Zenkoji, Japan 34

1857 Cholane, California 8

1857 Tejon Pass, California --- 7.5

1858 Corinth, Greece

8/13-15 1868 Peru & Ecuador 47.5

1868 S. East Bay California 7

5/16 1875 Venezuela & Columbia 16

6/30 1880 Ethiopia

1883 Java, Indonesia 100

8/31 1886 Charleston, South Carolina 60 77 IX

1890 San Bernadino Valley California 7.0

1891 Osaka, Japan 10

~1892 Anza, California 7

1893 Malatya, E Turkey

1894 Armenia, Russia

6/15 1896 Sanriku, Japan 27.12

1897 Assam, India 1.5

1898 Japan 22

1899 Armenia Russia

4/29 1903 Malazgird Turkey 6 7.0

1905 Jammu & Kashmir, India 19 8.6

4/18-19 1906 San Francisco 0.5 333 8.3

8/16 1906 Valpraiso, Chile 20 3556 8.6 Others say 1.5

1907 Kingston, Jamaica 1.4

12/28 1908 Messina, Italy 86 7.5

8/9 1912 Murefte Turkey 1.0 7.3

1914 Armenia, Russia

1/13 1915 Abruzzi (Avezano), Italy 31.2 7.5

1918 San Jacinto Valley, Cal 7

12/16 1920 Gansu (Kansu), China 168 8.6

3/24 1923 Luhuo, Suchang China 3 7.3

9/1 1923 Tokyo, Japan 110.325 700kHomes 8.3

5/27 1927 Nan-Shan, China 200 8.3

1927 Kingston, Jamaica-devastating

1928 Corinth, Greece

1930 Apennine Mts, Italy 1.5

1932 Gansu (Kansu), China 70

5/2 1933 Japan 2.99 8.9

1/15 1934 Bihar-Nepal, India 10.7 8.4

5/31 1935 Quetta,Baluchistan(Pakistan) 38.3 7.5

1/24 1939 Chile 28 8.3

12/26 1939 Erzincan, Turkey 34.2 7.9

12/20 1942 Niksau, Turkey 3 7.0

11/27 1943 Ladik, Turkey 4.0 7.3

2/1 1944 Grede, Turkey 4.0 7.3

1946 Alaska, Hawaii USA 0.15

5/31 1946 Eastern Turkey 1.3 6.0

12/21 1946 Honshu, Japan 2 8.4

10/5 1948 Soviet Union 110 no reading

5/21 1950 CUsco, Peru .090

6/28 1948 Fukui (Fuki), Japan 5.131 7.3

8/5 1949 Pelileo, Ecuador 6 20 6.8

1949 USSR 16

8/15 1950 Assam, India" 1.53 8.7

3/18 1953 NW Turkey 1.2 7.2

9/9-12 1954 Northern Algeria 1.425 6.8

6/10-17 1956 Kabul, Afghanistan 2 7.7

7/2 1957 Northern Iran 2.5 7.4

12/13 1957 Western Iran 1.7 7.1

1957 Outer Mongolia 1.2

5/21-23 1960 Southern Chile 5.5 1175 8.3

2/29 1960 Agada (Agadir), Morocco 12 5.8

9/1 1962 NW Iran 12.23 7.1

1962 Italy

1963 Barce, Libya 0.3

1963 Taiwan 0.1

7/26 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia 1.1 6.0

3/27 1964 Anchorage, Alaska, USA 0.1 8.5

8/19 1966 Varto, Eastern Turkey 2.5 6.9 IX

1967 Caracas, Venezuela 0.266

8/31 1968 Dashta Bayaz, NE Iran 12 7.4

0.0968 1969 Southern tip of Sinai, Egypt 7.1

3/28 1970 Gediz, Western Turkey 1.7355 7.3 IX

5/31 1970 Off Coast of Chimbote, Peru 7 230 7.7

1971 San Fernando, California, USA 0.064

12/23 1972 Managua, Nicaragua 5 6.2

2/6 1973 Luhuo, Suchang China 5 7.9

12/28 1974 Pakistan 5.2 6.3

9/6 1975 Lice, Turkey 2.3485 6.7 VIII

1975 Liaoning, China <10 7.3

2/4 1976 Guatemala 22.8 1.4 7.5

5/6 1976 NE Italy 0.946 6.5

6/26 1976 Irian Jaya, New Guinea 0.443 7.1

7/4 1976 N. Bali, Indonesia 0.5 5.6

7/28 1976 Tangshan, China (some est. 1.1M) 374 8.1

8/17 1976 Mindanao, Philippines 8 7.8

11/24 1976 Caldiran, Eastern Turkey 3.84 7.5 X

1976 U.S.S.R. 5?

3/4 1977 Bucharest, Romania 1.541 7.5

8/19 1977 Indonesia 0.2 8

11/23 1977 NW Argentina 0.1 8.2

9/16 1978 Iran 25 7.7

1979 Colombia, Ecuador 0.6 7.9

9/12 1979 Irian Java, Indonesia 0.1 8.1

10/10 1980 el-Asnam, Algeria 4 7.5

11/23 1980 Southern Italy 4.8 7.2

1983 Eastern Turkey 1.4 7.1

9/19 1985 Mexico City, Mexico 9 8.1

12/7 1988 Spitak, Armenia, Russia 25 2.5% USSR GDP 6.8

10/17 5:04pm 1989 San Francisco, California USA 0.067 3.575 injured $6B 7.1

6/21 12:31am 1990 Zanjan, NW Iran 40 dam burst, villages buried 7.5

7/16 1990 Luzon, Philippines 0.5 7.7 1K injured, U.S. mil. helps

4/21 1991 Limon, Costa Rica 0.07 10K homeless 7.2

10/20 1991 Almora, Uttar Pradesh, India 0.341 7.1

3/14 1992 Erzincan, Turkey 0.8 180K homeless

3/16 1992 Erzincan, Turkey 6

10/12 1992 20 mi SW Cairo, Egypt 0.37 3.3 injured 5.9

12/ 1992 Maumere, Indonesia 1.5 80% bldgs 7.5

7/13 1993 50m W. of Hokkaido .038+.1 7.8

8/8 1993 Guam 0 71 injuries 8.1

8/19/1994 NW Algeria 0.15 286 injuries 9K homeless aftershock 5.1

1/17 1995 Kobe and West Japan 5.5 7.2

TOTAL 6931.11 thousand 1593.1

There have been 1.45 million earthquake fatalities this century N.O.A.A. 1980 & B.SSA 1981-1989

does not include Tangshan

Ethiopia had 50 quakes before 1875

There were 58 quakes in Greece and Turkey between 1902 and 1946

There were 82 quakes in Greece and Turkey between 1947 and 1966

There were 45 quakes in Greece and Turkey between 1967 and 1976

There were 9 quakes in Greece and Turkey between 1977 and 1981

"Santiago, Chile had 24 quakes between 1955 and 1985."

"Encyclopedia, Britannica"

"Jim Hummel, San Jose Mercury News Sat May 14, 1983"

AP 6/22/90 Houston Chronicle

"In 2000 AD., 290 million people at risk"

 


HURRICANES "DEAD (1,000's)"


10/7 1737 "Bengal, India" 300

-11 1780 Caribbean Islands 25

10/5 1864 "Calcultta, India" 60

1876 "Bengal, India" 200

1881 "Haiphong, Vietnam" 300

9/8 1900 Galveston 6

1906 Hong Kong 10

1928 USA 2

10/16 1942 "Bengal, India" 35

5/28-29 1963 Bangladesh 22

1965 Bangladesh 37

11/13 1970 Bangladesh 500

1974 "Honduras, H. Fifi" 4

1888-1976 Other 51.372

1888-1976 Other 2.515

~5/5 1991 Bangladesh 138


TOTAL 1497 thousand


"FLOODS, TSUNAMIS" "DEAD (1,000's)"


4000-3500 BC. Sumeria

7/21 365 Alexandria&Greece from Kourion earthquake 3 "1,000's"

726 Tidal wave near Thera caused by volcano

1099 England & Netherlands 50

1228 Holland 100

1354-1359 China

11/18 1421 Netherlands 10

1642 China 300

1707 Japan (Tsunami) 30

11/1 1755 "Sanriku, Japan (Tsunami)" 10

1824 Russia 10

8/27 1883 Krakatoa (Tsunami) 30

9-10 1887 "Huang He River, China" 900

1889 "Johnstown, Pa." 2.2

6/15 1896 "Sanriku, Japan (Tsunami)" 27

1900 "Galveston, Tx." 5

1911 "Chang Jim River, China" 100

8 1931 "Huang He River, China" 3700

10/30 1937 near Damascas, Syria 3

1939 Northern China 275

1942 "Kaifang, China" 300

8/11 1979 Morvi India 10

1991 China


TOTAL 5852.2 thousand

 

VOLCANOS "DEAD (1,000's)"


4377 BC "major, Nazama, South Oregon"

3199 BC "major, N. hemisphere"

1628 BC. "major, N. hemisphere"

?1500 BC. " Santorini, Greece" ?

1153 BC. "major, N. hemisphere"

79 "Mt. Vesuvius, Italy" 18

260 "Ilpango volcano, El Salvador"

300 AD Volcano Xitli in Mexico

541 AD "major, N. hemisphere"

1169 "Mt. Etna, Sicily" 15

1532-33 Cotopaxi C. Ecuador

1631 Mt. Vesuvius 4

1663 Mt. Fugendake Japan

3/25 1669 "Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy" 20

1698 Cotopaxi C. Ecuador destroyed Tacunga

1744 Cotopaxi C. Ecuador heard 500 mi away

1766 Hekla in Iceland

1772 "Mt. Papandayan, Java" 3

6-8 1783 "Mt. Skaptor, Iceland" 10

1792 "Mt. Unzen-Dake (Mt. Fugendake), Japan" 10.4 or 15K

4/5 1815 "Tambora, Java, Indonesia" 11.5

1837 Zefat, Galilee

8/27 1883 Krakatoa (Tsunami) 35.5 12 mi^2 gone noise heard 3000 mi away

4/18 1902 "Santa Maria, Guatemala" 3.5

5/18 1902 "Mt. Pelee, Martinique" 30

1911 "Mt. Taal, Philippines" 1.4

1919 "Mt. Kelud, Java, Indonesia" 5.1

1930 Indonesia 1.4

1/8-21 1951 "Mt. Lamington, New Guinea" 3.0

1963 Indonesia 1.2

5 1970 Hekla in Iceland

10 1976 "Volcan, de Fuego, Guatemala"

11/1963-1965 "Surtsey, Iceland" 0

4/26 1966 "Mt. Kelud, Java, Indonesia" 1

5/18 1980 "major, Mt. St. Helens" 0.06

8 1980 Hekla in Iceland

1982 Yemen 3 500

1982 Mexico 1.7

11/13 1985 "Armero, Colombia Minor Eruption mud slide" 23

8/24 1986 NW Cameroon 1.7

6/3 1991 "Mt. Fugendake, Japan" 0.041


TOTAL 202.7 thousand

 


FIRES


525 "Antioch, Syria"

1871 Chicago 250

1872 "Tokyo, Japan"

1624 "Oslo, Norway"

9/2-9/9 1666 "London, England"

1909 "Osaka, Japan"

1912 "Osaka, Japan"


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