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TOP 10 DEADLIEST EARTHQUAKES
Ten: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 Nine: The Ashgabat Earthquake of 1924 Eight: The Hokkaido Earthquake of 1730 Seven: The Ardabil Earthquake of 1997 Six: The Damghan Earthquake of 856 Five: The Indian Ocean Earthquake of 2004 Four: The Aleppo Earthquake of 1138 Three: The Haiyuan Earthquake of 1920 Two: The Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 One: The Shaanzi Earthquake of 1556
10: THE GREAT KANTOEARTHQUAKE OF 1923
Date: September 01, 1923 Location: the Kanto plain of
Honshu, Japan Magnitude: 8.3 on the Richter
scale Duration: 4-10 minutes (11:58
AM) Death toll: 142,000 people Resulting damage: 381,000
houses were burned; 694,000 houses were damaged
9: THE ASHGABAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1948
Date: October 06, 1948 Location: Ashgabat,
Turkmenistan Magnitude: 7.3 on the Richet
scale Duration: Unknown (2:17 am) Death toll: 100,000 people Resulting damage: Brick
building collapsed; concrete structure were heavily damaged; freight trails were detailed
8: THE HOKKAIDO EARTHQUAKE OF 1730
Date: December 30, 1730 Location: Hokkaido, Japan Magnitude: 8.3 on the Richter
scale Duration: Unknown Death toll: 137,000 people Resulting damage: Landslides;
power outages; road damage; a tsunami
7: THE ARDABIL EARTH-QUAKE OF 1997
Date: February 28, 1997 Location: Ardabil, Iran Magnitude: 6.1 on the Richter
scale Duration: 15 seconds (4:37 PM) Death toll: 150,000 people Resulting damage: Road and
electrical power line damage; all electrical communication was impossible; water could not be distributed; hospitals overflowed with patients
6: THE DAMGHAN EARTHQUAKE OF 856
Date: December 22, 856 Location: the Alborz mountain
range (present-day Iran) Magnitude: 8.0 on the Richter
scale Duration: Unknown Death toll: 200,000 people Resulting damage: The whole
city, countryside, and mostly every near-by village within 200 miles of the epicenter were destroyed
5: THE INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKE OF 2004
Date: December 26, 2004
Location: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Maldives, and the eastern coast of Africa
Magnitude: 9.1 – 9.3 on the Richter scale
Duration: 8-10 minutes
Death toll: 200,000 people
Resulting damage: Tsunamis
4: THE ALEPPO EARTHQUAKE OF 1138
Date: October 11, 1138 Location: Aleppo, Syria Magnitude: 8.5 of the Richter
scale Duration: Unknown Death toll: 230,000 Resulting damage: 600 guards
in a citadel were killed, which was always destroyed; buildings and homes collapsed
3: THE HAIYUAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1920
Date: December 16, 1920 Location: Haiyuan, China Magnitude: 8.5 on the Richter
scale Duration: Unknown (12:06
PM) Death toll: 235,502 people Resulting damage: Collapsed
houses, damaged rivers, landslides, severe cracks in the ground
2: THE TANGSHAN EARTHWUAKE OF 1976
Date: July 28, 1976 Location: Tangshan, China Magnitude: 7.8 on the Richter
scale Duration: 23 seconds (3:42
PM) Death toll: 779,000 people Resulting damage: No access
to water, food, or electricity
1: THE SHAANXI EARTHQUAKE OF 1556
Date: January 23, 1556 Location: a 520-mile-wide area
in China Magnitude: 8.0 on the Richter
scale Duration: Unknown Death toll: 830,000 people Resulting damage: Caves
collapsed, mounts and rivers “changed places”; roads were destroyed
TOP 10 DEADLIEST VOLCANO ERUPTIONS
Ten: The Mount Galunggung Eruption of 1882 Nine: The Mount Kelut Eruption of 1919 Eight: The Mount Vesuvius Eruption of 1631 Seven: The Laki Volcanic System Eruption of 1783 Six: The Mount Vesuvius Eruption of 79 AD Five: The Mount Unzen Eruption of 1792 Four: The Nevado del Ruiz Eruption of 1985 Three: The Mount Krakatoa Eruption of 1883 Two: The Mount Pelee Eruption of 1902 One: The Mount Tambora Eruption of 1816
10: THE MOUNT GALUNGGUNG
ERUPTION OF 1882
Date: October 1882 Location: West Java, Indonesia Death toll: 4,011 people Resulting damage: Unknown
9: THE MOUNT KELUT ERUPTION OF 1919
Date: May 19, 1919 Location: East Java, Indonesia Death toll: 5,110 people Resulting damage: Mudslides
8: THE MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTION OF 1631
Date: December 1631 Location: Gulf of Naples, Italy Death toll: 6,000 people Resulting damage: Many
surrounding towns were destroyed by lava flows and randomly ejected boiling water from the volcano
7: THE LAKI VOLCANIC SYSTEM OF ERUPTION OF
1783 Date: June 08, 1783 Location: southern Island Death toll: 9,350 people Resulting damage: Dusty
volcanic haze that created massive food shortages (the main cause of death after the disaster)
6: THE MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTION OF 79 AD
Date: April 24, 79 AD Location: Gulf of Naples, Italy Death toll: 10,000 + people Resulting damage: the Roman
towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely covered in volcanic ash and destroyed; temperature reached up to 750 °F; victims were found with the tops of their heads missing because their brains had boiled and exploded
5: THE MOUNT UNZEN ERUPTION OF 1792
Date: 1972 Location: Kyushu, Japan Death toll: 15,000-17,000
people Resulting damage: an
earthquake; a tsunami
4: THE NEVADO DEL RUIZ ERUPTION OF 1985
Date: December 13, 1985 Location: Caldas and Tolima,
Colombia Death toll: 23,000 people Resulting damage: a mudslide
that buried the city of Amero
3: THE MOUNT KRAKATOA ERUPTION OF
1883
Date: August 27, 1883 Location: The Sunda Strait of
Indonesia Death toll: 36,000 people Resulting damage: 2/3 was
destroyed; more than 6 cubic meters of debris went flying into the atmosphere
2: THE MOUNT PELEE ERUPTION OF 1902
Date: May 08, 1902 Location: Lesser Antilles (in
the Carribean) Death toll: 40,000 people Resulting damage: city of St.
Pierre was completely destroyed
1: THE MOUNT TAMBORA ERUPTION OF 1815
Date: April 10, 1815 Location: Sumbawa, Indonesia Death toll: 92,000 people Resulting damage: the year 1816
people known as the “year without summer” because volcanic ash in the atmosphere form the explosion lowered worldwide temperatures (it snowed in New England in June; 100,000 additional people died because of starvation due to crop failures in Northern Europe and North America