As highly effective earthquakes go away a path of deaths and destruction throughout southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria, here’s a chronological checklist of lethal earthquakes over the previous 20 years:
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Some of the world’s most threatening earthquakes previously 20 years are listed beneath, after a 7.7 magnitude quake struck southern Türkiey and northwest Syria on Monday and killed hundreds of individuals.
August 14, 2021 – Haiti
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing greater than 2,200 individuals and destroying or damaging about 13,000 houses.
September 28, 2018 – Indonesia
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi, leading to a 1.5-metre tsunami and killing greater than 4,300 individuals.
November 12, 2017 – Iran
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake shook the japanese Kermanshah area, killing greater than 400 individuals.
At least six individuals died in neighbouring Iraq.
September 19, 2017 – Mexico
A 7.1 magnitude quake hit central Mexico, killing at the least 369 individuals and inflicting extra devastation within the capital than any temblor since an earthquake in 1985 that killed hundreds.
August 24, 2016 – Italy
A 6.2 magnitude quake struck a cluster of mountain communities east of Rome in central Italy, killing about 300 individuals.
April 16, 2016 – Ecuador
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hammered Ecuador, killing greater than 650 individuals on the nation’s Pacific coast.
October 26, 2015 – Afghanistan
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the Afghan northeast, killing almost 400 individuals within the nation in addition to in northern Pakistan.
April 25, 2015 – Nepal
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake ravaged impoverished Nepal, killing almost 9,000 individuals and disrupting the lives of greater than eight million.
August 3, 2014 – China
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake devastated southwestern China, killing at the least 600 individuals in a distant space of Yunnan province.
September 24, 2013 – Pakistan
Twin earthquakes, measuring 7.7 and 6.8 magnitudes, rattled southwestern Balochistan province, killing at the least 825 individuals.
August 11, 2012 – Iran
Two sturdy quakes, measuring 6.4 magnitudes and 6.3 respectively, killed at the least 300 individuals close to the town of Tabriz in northwestern Iran.
October 23, 2011 – Türkiye
A robust magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook southeast Türkiye, killing greater than 600 individuals.
March 11, 2011 – Japan
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s northeast, killing about 15,690 individuals and injuring 5,700. The earthquake additionally triggered the world’s largest nuclear catastrophe since Chornobyl in 1986.
February 22, 2011 – New Zealand
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, killing at the least 180 individuals.
February 27, 2010 – Chile
An 8.8 magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami in Chile killed greater than 500 individuals, wrecking a whole lot of hundreds of houses and mangling highways and bridges.
January 13, 2010 – Haiti
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and killed about 316,000 individuals. The United Nations estimated 80,000 buildings in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas had been destroyed.
May 12, 2008 – China
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan province, killing about 87,60 0 individuals.
December 26, 2004 – Asia
A 9.15 magnitude earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that barrelled into Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and plenty of different international locations within the area, devastating villages and vacationer islands and leaving nearly 230,000 lifeless or lacking.
October 8, 2005 – Pakistan
A 7.6 magnitude quake northeast of Islamabad killed at the least 73,000 individuals. The quake additionally rocked Indian Kashmir, killing 1,244 there.
December 26, 2003 – Iran
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit the southeastern Kerman province and flattened the town of Bam, killing 31,000 individuals.
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