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The following is a list of major earthquake
Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
s.

is a list of significant earthquakes as listed by the USGS. For other ancient or recent earthquakes not listed here, see the tables below.

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Date Time‡ Place Lat. Long. Fatalities Mag.
Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale is used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy released. The scale was developed in the 1970s to succeed to 1930s-era Richter magnitude scale....
 MX† (M reference)
01556-01-23January 23, 1556  Shaanxi
Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see Shaanxi Earthquake
Shaanxi Earthquake

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Jiajing earthquake is the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830,000 people . It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, China....
 34.5 109.7830,000+8.2~.3 
01668-08-17August 17, 1668  Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 40 368,0008 
01700-01-26January 26, 1700  Cascadia subduction zone
Cascadia subduction zone

The Cascadia subduction zone is a subduction zone, a type of convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northern California....

see 1700 Cascadia earthquake		   9 M (Satake et al, 1996)
01755-11-01November 1, 1755 10:16 Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....

see 1755 Lisbon earthquake
1755 Lisbon earthquake

The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, took place on November 1, 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami and fires, which caused near-total destruction of Lisbon in Portugal, and adjoining areas....
 36 -1180,0008.7 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01811-12-16December 16, 1811 08:00 New Madrid
New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, Missouri, 42 miles south by west of Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. New Madrid was founded in 1788 by United States frontiersmen....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1812 New Madrid earthquake		 36.6 -89.6 8.1 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01812-01-23January 23, 1812 15:00 New Madrid
New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, Missouri, 42 miles south by west of Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. New Madrid was founded in 1788 by United States frontiersmen....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.6 -89.6 7.8 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01812-02-07February 7, 1812 09:45 New Madrid
New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, Missouri, 42 miles south by west of Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. New Madrid was founded in 1788 by United States frontiersmen....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.6 -89.6 8 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01823-06-02June 2, 1823 08:00 south flank of Kilauea
Kilauea

Kilauea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the Hawaii . In Hawaiian language, the word kilauea means "spewing" or "much spreading", in reference to the mountain's frequent outpouring of lava....
, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.3 -155 7 MI (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01836-06-10June 10, 1836 15:30 south San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean....
 region, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 (now USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
)		 36.9 -121.5 6.5 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01838-06-31June 1838  San Francisco Peninsula
San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula in California separates the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the city of San Francisco....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 (now USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
)		 37.3 -123.2 6.8 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01843-01-05January 5, 1843 02:45 Marked Tree
Marked Tree, Arkansas

Marked Tree is a city in Poinsett County, Arkansas, Arkansas in the United States, along the St. Francis River, at the mouth of the Little River ....
, Arkansas
Arkansas

Arkansas is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States of the United States. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.5 -90.5 6.3 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01857-01-09January 9, 1857 16:24 Fort Tejon
Fort Tejon

Fort Tejon, California, is a former United States Army outpost which was intermittently active from June 24, 1854, until September 11, 1864. It is located in the Grapevine, California area of Tejon Pass along Interstate 5, the main route through the mountains separating California's Central Valley from Los Angeles....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (San Andreas fault
San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is dextral strike-slip ....
 from Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
 to Wrightwood
Wrightwood, California

Wrightwood is a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County, California. The population was 3,837 at the 2000 census....
)
see 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake		  17.9 M (Grant and Sieh, 1993; Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01857-12-16December 16, 1857 21:00 Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 40.3 1611,0006.9 MI
01865-10-08October 8, 1865 20:46 San Jose
San Jose, California

San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.2 121.9 6.5 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01868-04-03April 3, 1868 02:25 Hilea, southeast Hawaii, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.2 -155.5777.9 MI (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01868-10-21October 21, 1868 15:53 Hayward
Hayward, California

Hayward is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County, California. The sixth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is one of the larger suburbs of Oakland, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Hayward Fault Zone
Hayward Fault Zone

The Hayward Fault Zone is a geologic fault zone capable of generating significantly destructive earthquakes. About 60 kilometers long, it lies mainly along the western base of the hills on the east side of San Francisco Bay....

see 1868 Hayward earthquake
1868 Hayward earthquake

The 1868 Hayward earthquake was the last large earthquake to occur on the Hayward Fault Zone in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States....
 37.7 -122.1306.8 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01871-02-20February 20, 1871 08:42 Molokai
Molokai

Molokai or Molokai ) is an island in the Hawaiian Islands. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of 260.0 square miles , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the List of islands of the United States by area....
, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 21.2 -156.9 6.8 MI (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01872-03-26March 26, 1872 10:30 Owens Valley
Owens Valley

Owens Valley is the arid valley of the Owens River in Eastern California in the United States. The valley is approximately long, trending north-south, and is bounded by the Inyo Mountains on the east, on the southeast by the Coso Range, on the south by Rose Valley, on the west by the Sierra Nevada , and on the north by Chalfant Valley....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1872 Lone Pine earthquake
1872 Lone Pine earthquake

The Great Lone Pine earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes to hit California in recorded history. The quake struck on March 26, 1872 and its epicenter was near Lone Pine, California in Owens Valley....
 36.5 -118277.6 M (Beanland and Clark, 1994)
01872-12-15December 15, 1872 05:40 north Cascades
Cascade Range

The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California....
, Washington
Washington

Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 47.9 -120.3 7.3 MI (Malone and Bor, 1979; Rogers et al., 1983)
01873-11-23November 23, 1873 05:00 California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
-Oregon
Oregon

Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....
 coast, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 42.2 -124.2 7.3 MI (Bakun, 2000)
01886-08-31August 31, 1886 02:51 Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County....
, South Carolina
South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 32.9 -80607.3 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01890-04-24April 24, 1890 11:36 Corralitos
Corralitos, California

Corralitos is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, California, United States. The population was 2,431 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37 121.8 6.3 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01891-10-27October 27, 1891 21:38 Mino-Owari (Gifu
Gifu Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan located in the Chubu region list of regions in Japan of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu, Gifu. Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to the west through such routes as the Nakasendo....
-Aichi
Aichi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tokai region of the Chubu region. The capital is Nagoya. It is the focus of the Chukyo Metropolitan Area....
 Prefectures), Tokai region
Tokai region

The is a sub-region of the Chubu region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name means "East sea" and comes from the Tokaido, one of the Edo Five Routes....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see Nobi Earthquake
1891 Mino-Owari earthquake

The was a large earthquake that struck the former Provinces of Japan of Mino Province and Owari Province in the Nobi Plain area during the Meiji period in Japan....
 35.6 136.67,2738 MS
01892-04-19April 19, 1892 10:50 Vacaville
Vacaville, California

Vacaville, California is located in Solano County, California, California, United States, between Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.5 -121.816.4 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01892-04-21April 21, 1892 17:43 Winters
Winters, California

Winters is a city in Yolo County, California. The population was 6,764 as of July 2005. It is part of the Sacramento, California–Arden-Arcade, California–Roseville, California Sacramento metropolitan area....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.6 -122 6.4 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01895-10-31October 31, 1895 11:08 Charleston
Charleston, Missouri

Charleston is a city in Mississippi County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,732 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37 -89.4 6.6 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01896-06-15June 15, 1896 19:32 Off the Pacific coast of Sanriku, Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
, Tohoku region
Tohoku region

The is a geographical area of Japan. Tohoku is Japanese language for "northeast," and the Tohoku region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 39.5 144 8.5 (approx) M
01897-06-12June 12, 1897 11:06 Assam
Assam

Assam ) is a North-East India state of India with its capital at Dispur, in the outskirts of the city Guwahati. Located south of the eastern Himalayas, Assam comprises the Brahmaputra and the Barak River river valleys and the Karbi Anglong District and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30,285 square miles ....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 26 911,5008.3 
01897-06-20June 20, 1897 20:14 Calaveras Fault
Calaveras Fault

The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It runs east of the San Andreas, diverging from it in the vicinity of Hollister, California, and is responsible for the formation of the Calaveras Valley there....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37 -121.6 6.3 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01898-03-31March 31, 1898 07:43 Mare Island
Mare Island

Mare Island is a peninsula alongside the city of Vallejo, California, about northeast of San Francisco. The Napa River forms its eastern side as it enters the Carquinez Strait juncture with the east side of San Pablo Bay....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.1 122.4 6.3 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01898-04-15April 15, 1898 07:07 Mendocino County
Mendocino County, California

Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California, north of the greater San Francisco Bay Area and west of the California Central Valley....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.3 -123.9 6.8 MI (Bakun, 2000)
01899-09-04September 4, 1899 00:22 Cape Yakataga, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 60 -142 7.9 MS
01899-09-10September 10, 1899 21:41 Yakutat Bay
Yakutat Bay

Yakutat Bay is a 29-km-wide bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit name reported as "Jacootat" and "Yacootat" by Yuri Lisianski in 1805....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 60 -142 8 MS
01900-10-09October 9, 1900 12:28 Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska

Kodiak Island Borough is a Borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 13,913....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 57.1 -153.5 7.7 MS
01901-03-03March 3, 1901 07:45 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.2 -120.7 6.4 MS (Abe, 1988)
01904-08-27August 27, 1904 21:56 Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a Devolution City in and the county seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, Alaska, United States.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Alaska Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage, Alaska....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 64.7 -148.1 7.3 MS
01905-07-09July 9, 1905 09:40 Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
 49 99 8.4 M
01906-01-31January 31, 1906 15:36 Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
-Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 1 -81.51,0008.8 M
01906-04-18April 18, 1906 13:12 San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (San Andreas fault
San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is dextral strike-slip ....
 from Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
 to San Juan Bautista
San Juan Bautista, California

San Juan Bautista is a city in San Benito County, California, California, United States. The population was 1,549 at the 2000 census. The city of San Juan Bautista was named after Mission San Juan Bautista....
)
see San Francisco earthquake of 1906		  3,0007.8 M (Bakun, 1999)
01906-08-17August 17, 1906 00:40 Valparaíso
Valparaíso

Valpara?so is a major city in Chile and one of that country's most important seaports and an increasingly vital cultural center in the hemisphere's Pacific Southwest....
, Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 -33 -7220,0008.2 M
01908-12-28December 28, 1908 04:20 Messina & Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria

Reggio di Calabria , commonly known as Reggio Calabria or Reggio, is a city in southern Italy Italy, the Capital of the Province of Reggio Calabria as well as the largest and oldest city in the Calabria region....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 38.3 15.670,0007.2 MS
01911-07-01July 1, 1911 22:00 Calaveras Fault
Calaveras Fault

The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It runs east of the San Andreas, diverging from it in the vicinity of Hollister, California, and is responsible for the formation of the Calaveras Valley there....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.39 -121.8 6.5 MS
01915-10-03October 3, 1915 06:52 Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Valley, Nevada

Pleasant Valley is a very small, unincorporated area in Washoe County, Nevada, Nevada, United States. The ZIP Code for Pleasant Valley is 89511. The community is part of the Reno, Nevada–Sparks, Nevada Reno-Sparks metropolitan area....
, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.5 -117.5 7.1 M (Stover and Coffman, 1993)
01918-10-11October 11, 1918 14:14 Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 18.47 -67.631167.5 MS (McCann, 1985)
01918-12-06December 6, 1918 08:41 Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
, British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 49.62 -125.92 7 ML (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954: Rogers, 1983)
01920-12-16December 16, 1920 12:05 Ningxia
Ningxia

Ningxia , full name Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region , is a Hui Chinese autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located on the Northwestern China Loess Plateau, the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land....
-Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see 1920 Haiyuan earthquake
1920 Haiyuan earthquake

1920 Haiyuan earthquake , was an earthquake that occurred on December 16, 1920. The epicenter was , in Haiyuan County, Ningxia. It was also called the 1920 Gansu earthquake because Ningxia was a part of Gansu when the earthquake occurred....
 36.6 105.32200,0008.6 MS
01922-01-31January 31, 1922 13:17 offshore, Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.7 -125.55 7.3 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01922-03-10March 10, 1922 11:21 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.9 120.9 6.1 M (Bakun and McEvilly, 1984)
01923-01-22January 22, 1923 09:04 offshore, Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.49 -125.32 7.2 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01923-09-01September 1, 1923 02:58 Kanto region
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see 1923 Great Kanto earthquake
1923 Great Kanto earthquake

The struck the Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honshu at 11:58 on the morning of September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes....
 35.4 139.08143,0007.9 M
01925-03-01February 2, 1925 02:19 Charlevoix
Charlevoix

The Charlevoix region, located in Quebec, includes parts of the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River and the Laurentian Mountains region of the Canadian Shield....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

see 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake
1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake

The 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the entire northeastern part of North America on February 2, 1925, reaching 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale....
 47.76 -69.84 6.3 M (Bent, 1992)
01925-06-28June 28, 1925 01:21 Clarkston Valley, Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 46.32 -111.52 6.6 M (Dosier, 1989)
01925-06-29June 29, 1925 14:42 Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.3 -119.8136.8 M (Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01926-10-22October 22, 1926 12:35 Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay is a Headlands and bays of the Pacific Ocean, south of San Francisco between the cities of Santa Cruz, California and Monterey, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.62 -122.35 6.1 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01926-10-22October 22, 1926 13:35 Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay is a Headlands and bays of the Pacific Ocean, south of San Francisco between the cities of Santa Cruz, California and Monterey, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.55 -122.18 6.1 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01927-03-07March 7, 1927 09:27 Tango Peninsula, northern Kyoto Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Kinki region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kyoto....
, Kinki region, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 35.8 134.923,0207.6 MS
01927-05-22May 22, 1927 22:32 Gulang
Gulang County

Gulang County is an administrative district in Gansu, the People's Republic of China. It is one of 58 County of China of Gansu. It is part of the Wuwei, Gansu prefecture, with the city of the same name being the prefecture seat....
, Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 37.39 102.3140,0007.9 MS
01927-11-04November 4, 1927 13:51 offshore Lompoc
Lompoc, California

Lompoc is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, California, United States. The population was 41,103 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.92 -121.03 7.1 M (Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01929-11-18November 18, 1929 20:32 Grand Banks, Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 44.69 -56.01 7.3 M (Bent, 1995)
01932-12-21December 21, 1932 06:10 Cedar Mountain
Cedar Mountain

Cedar Mountain, also known as Slaughter Mountain, is a piedmont monadnock in Culpeper County, Virginia, Virginia. The ridge is south of the town of Culpeper, Virginia and just to the northwest of the northern tip of the Southwest Mountains at Clark Mountain....
, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.51 -118.08 7.2 M
01933-03-02March 2, 1933 17:31 Off the Pacific coast of Sanriku, Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
, Tohoku region
Tohoku region

The is a geographical area of Japan. Tohoku is Japanese language for "northeast," and the Tohoku region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see 1933 Sanriku earthquake
1933 Sanriku earthquake

The was a major earthquake whose associated tsunami caused widespread damage to towns on the Iwate Prefecture coast of the Tohoku region of Honshu, Japan in 1933....
 39.22 144.622,9908.4 M
01933-03-11March 11, 1933 01:54 Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 
see 1933 Long Beach earthquake
1933 Long Beach earthquake

The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, 1933 at 17:55 Pacific Standard Time , with a moment magnitude scale of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California....
 33.6 -1181156.4 M (Hauksson & Gross, 1991)
01933-11-20November 20, 1933 23:21 Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay is a sea between the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean oceans. It is 1,130 km across from north to south. It is not navigable most of the year because of the presence of large numbers of icebergs....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 73 -69.98 7.4 M (Stein et al.






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The following is a list of major earthquake
Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
s.

USGS list of significant earthquakes

This is a list of significant earthquakes as listed by the USGS. For other ancient or recent earthquakes not listed here, see the tables below.

Date Time‡ Place Lat. Long. Fatalities Mag.
Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale is used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy released. The scale was developed in the 1970s to succeed to 1930s-era Richter magnitude scale....
 MX† (M reference)
01556-01-23January 23, 1556  Shaanxi
Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see Shaanxi Earthquake
Shaanxi Earthquake

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Jiajing earthquake is the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830,000 people . It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, China....
 34.5 109.7830,000+8.2~.3 
01668-08-17August 17, 1668  Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 40 368,0008 
01700-01-26January 26, 1700  Cascadia subduction zone
Cascadia subduction zone

The Cascadia subduction zone is a subduction zone, a type of convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northern California....

see 1700 Cascadia earthquake		   9 M (Satake et al, 1996)
01755-11-01November 1, 1755 10:16 Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....

see 1755 Lisbon earthquake
1755 Lisbon earthquake

The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, took place on November 1, 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami and fires, which caused near-total destruction of Lisbon in Portugal, and adjoining areas....
 36 -1180,0008.7 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01811-12-16December 16, 1811 08:00 New Madrid
New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, Missouri, 42 miles south by west of Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. New Madrid was founded in 1788 by United States frontiersmen....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1812 New Madrid earthquake		 36.6 -89.6 8.1 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01812-01-23January 23, 1812 15:00 New Madrid
New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, Missouri, 42 miles south by west of Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. New Madrid was founded in 1788 by United States frontiersmen....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.6 -89.6 7.8 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01812-02-07February 7, 1812 09:45 New Madrid
New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, Missouri, 42 miles south by west of Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. New Madrid was founded in 1788 by United States frontiersmen....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.6 -89.6 8 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01823-06-02June 2, 1823 08:00 south flank of Kilauea
Kilauea

Kilauea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the Hawaii . In Hawaiian language, the word kilauea means "spewing" or "much spreading", in reference to the mountain's frequent outpouring of lava....
, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.3 -155 7 MI (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01836-06-10June 10, 1836 15:30 south San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean....
 region, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 (now USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
)		 36.9 -121.5 6.5 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01838-06-31June 1838  San Francisco Peninsula
San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula in California separates the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the city of San Francisco....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 (now USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
)		 37.3 -123.2 6.8 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01843-01-05January 5, 1843 02:45 Marked Tree
Marked Tree, Arkansas

Marked Tree is a city in Poinsett County, Arkansas, Arkansas in the United States, along the St. Francis River, at the mouth of the Little River ....
, Arkansas
Arkansas

Arkansas is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States of the United States. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.5 -90.5 6.3 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01857-01-09January 9, 1857 16:24 Fort Tejon
Fort Tejon

Fort Tejon, California, is a former United States Army outpost which was intermittently active from June 24, 1854, until September 11, 1864. It is located in the Grapevine, California area of Tejon Pass along Interstate 5, the main route through the mountains separating California's Central Valley from Los Angeles....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (San Andreas fault
San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is dextral strike-slip ....
 from Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
 to Wrightwood
Wrightwood, California

Wrightwood is a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County, California. The population was 3,837 at the 2000 census....
)
see 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake		  17.9 M (Grant and Sieh, 1993; Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01857-12-16December 16, 1857 21:00 Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 40.3 1611,0006.9 MI
01865-10-08October 8, 1865 20:46 San Jose
San Jose, California

San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.2 121.9 6.5 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01868-04-03April 3, 1868 02:25 Hilea, southeast Hawaii, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.2 -155.5777.9 MI (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01868-10-21October 21, 1868 15:53 Hayward
Hayward, California

Hayward is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County, California. The sixth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is one of the larger suburbs of Oakland, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Hayward Fault Zone
Hayward Fault Zone

The Hayward Fault Zone is a geologic fault zone capable of generating significantly destructive earthquakes. About 60 kilometers long, it lies mainly along the western base of the hills on the east side of San Francisco Bay....

see 1868 Hayward earthquake
1868 Hayward earthquake

The 1868 Hayward earthquake was the last large earthquake to occur on the Hayward Fault Zone in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States....
 37.7 -122.1306.8 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01871-02-20February 20, 1871 08:42 Molokai
Molokai

Molokai or Molokai ) is an island in the Hawaiian Islands. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of 260.0 square miles , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the List of islands of the United States by area....
, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 21.2 -156.9 6.8 MI (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01872-03-26March 26, 1872 10:30 Owens Valley
Owens Valley

Owens Valley is the arid valley of the Owens River in Eastern California in the United States. The valley is approximately long, trending north-south, and is bounded by the Inyo Mountains on the east, on the southeast by the Coso Range, on the south by Rose Valley, on the west by the Sierra Nevada , and on the north by Chalfant Valley....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1872 Lone Pine earthquake
1872 Lone Pine earthquake

The Great Lone Pine earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes to hit California in recorded history. The quake struck on March 26, 1872 and its epicenter was near Lone Pine, California in Owens Valley....
 36.5 -118277.6 M (Beanland and Clark, 1994)
01872-12-15December 15, 1872 05:40 north Cascades
Cascade Range

The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California....
, Washington
Washington

Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 47.9 -120.3 7.3 MI (Malone and Bor, 1979; Rogers et al., 1983)
01873-11-23November 23, 1873 05:00 California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
-Oregon
Oregon

Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....
 coast, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 42.2 -124.2 7.3 MI (Bakun, 2000)
01886-08-31August 31, 1886 02:51 Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County....
, South Carolina
South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 32.9 -80607.3 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01890-04-24April 24, 1890 11:36 Corralitos
Corralitos, California

Corralitos is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, California, United States. The population was 2,431 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37 121.8 6.3 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01891-10-27October 27, 1891 21:38 Mino-Owari (Gifu
Gifu Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan located in the Chubu region list of regions in Japan of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu, Gifu. Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to the west through such routes as the Nakasendo....
-Aichi
Aichi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tokai region of the Chubu region. The capital is Nagoya. It is the focus of the Chukyo Metropolitan Area....
 Prefectures), Tokai region
Tokai region

The is a sub-region of the Chubu region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name means "East sea" and comes from the Tokaido, one of the Edo Five Routes....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see Nobi Earthquake
1891 Mino-Owari earthquake

The was a large earthquake that struck the former Provinces of Japan of Mino Province and Owari Province in the Nobi Plain area during the Meiji period in Japan....
 35.6 136.67,2738 MS
01892-04-19April 19, 1892 10:50 Vacaville
Vacaville, California

Vacaville, California is located in Solano County, California, California, United States, between Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.5 -121.816.4 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01892-04-21April 21, 1892 17:43 Winters
Winters, California

Winters is a city in Yolo County, California. The population was 6,764 as of July 2005. It is part of the Sacramento, California–Arden-Arcade, California–Roseville, California Sacramento metropolitan area....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.6 -122 6.4 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01895-10-31October 31, 1895 11:08 Charleston
Charleston, Missouri

Charleston is a city in Mississippi County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,732 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37 -89.4 6.6 MI (Johnston, 1996)
01896-06-15June 15, 1896 19:32 Off the Pacific coast of Sanriku, Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
, Tohoku region
Tohoku region

The is a geographical area of Japan. Tohoku is Japanese language for "northeast," and the Tohoku region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 39.5 144 8.5 (approx) M
01897-06-12June 12, 1897 11:06 Assam
Assam

Assam ) is a North-East India state of India with its capital at Dispur, in the outskirts of the city Guwahati. Located south of the eastern Himalayas, Assam comprises the Brahmaputra and the Barak River river valleys and the Karbi Anglong District and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30,285 square miles ....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 26 911,5008.3 
01897-06-20June 20, 1897 20:14 Calaveras Fault
Calaveras Fault

The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It runs east of the San Andreas, diverging from it in the vicinity of Hollister, California, and is responsible for the formation of the Calaveras Valley there....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37 -121.6 6.3 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01898-03-31March 31, 1898 07:43 Mare Island
Mare Island

Mare Island is a peninsula alongside the city of Vallejo, California, about northeast of San Francisco. The Napa River forms its eastern side as it enters the Carquinez Strait juncture with the east side of San Pablo Bay....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.1 122.4 6.3 MI (Bakun, 1999)
01898-04-15April 15, 1898 07:07 Mendocino County
Mendocino County, California

Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California, north of the greater San Francisco Bay Area and west of the California Central Valley....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.3 -123.9 6.8 MI (Bakun, 2000)
01899-09-04September 4, 1899 00:22 Cape Yakataga, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 60 -142 7.9 MS
01899-09-10September 10, 1899 21:41 Yakutat Bay
Yakutat Bay

Yakutat Bay is a 29-km-wide bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit name reported as "Jacootat" and "Yacootat" by Yuri Lisianski in 1805....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 60 -142 8 MS
01900-10-09October 9, 1900 12:28 Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska

Kodiak Island Borough is a Borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 13,913....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 57.1 -153.5 7.7 MS
01901-03-03March 3, 1901 07:45 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.2 -120.7 6.4 MS (Abe, 1988)
01904-08-27August 27, 1904 21:56 Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a Devolution City in and the county seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, Alaska, United States.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Alaska Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage, Alaska....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 64.7 -148.1 7.3 MS
01905-07-09July 9, 1905 09:40 Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
 49 99 8.4 M
01906-01-31January 31, 1906 15:36 Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
-Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 1 -81.51,0008.8 M
01906-04-18April 18, 1906 13:12 San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (San Andreas fault
San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is dextral strike-slip ....
 from Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
 to San Juan Bautista
San Juan Bautista, California

San Juan Bautista is a city in San Benito County, California, California, United States. The population was 1,549 at the 2000 census. The city of San Juan Bautista was named after Mission San Juan Bautista....
)
see San Francisco earthquake of 1906		  3,0007.8 M (Bakun, 1999)
01906-08-17August 17, 1906 00:40 Valparaíso
Valparaíso

Valpara?so is a major city in Chile and one of that country's most important seaports and an increasingly vital cultural center in the hemisphere's Pacific Southwest....
, Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 -33 -7220,0008.2 M
01908-12-28December 28, 1908 04:20 Messina & Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria

Reggio di Calabria , commonly known as Reggio Calabria or Reggio, is a city in southern Italy Italy, the Capital of the Province of Reggio Calabria as well as the largest and oldest city in the Calabria region....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 38.3 15.670,0007.2 MS
01911-07-01July 1, 1911 22:00 Calaveras Fault
Calaveras Fault

The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It runs east of the San Andreas, diverging from it in the vicinity of Hollister, California, and is responsible for the formation of the Calaveras Valley there....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.39 -121.8 6.5 MS
01915-10-03October 3, 1915 06:52 Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Valley, Nevada

Pleasant Valley is a very small, unincorporated area in Washoe County, Nevada, Nevada, United States. The ZIP Code for Pleasant Valley is 89511. The community is part of the Reno, Nevada–Sparks, Nevada Reno-Sparks metropolitan area....
, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.5 -117.5 7.1 M (Stover and Coffman, 1993)
01918-10-11October 11, 1918 14:14 Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 18.47 -67.631167.5 MS (McCann, 1985)
01918-12-06December 6, 1918 08:41 Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
, British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 49.62 -125.92 7 ML (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954: Rogers, 1983)
01920-12-16December 16, 1920 12:05 Ningxia
Ningxia

Ningxia , full name Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region , is a Hui Chinese autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located on the Northwestern China Loess Plateau, the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land....
-Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see 1920 Haiyuan earthquake
1920 Haiyuan earthquake

1920 Haiyuan earthquake , was an earthquake that occurred on December 16, 1920. The epicenter was , in Haiyuan County, Ningxia. It was also called the 1920 Gansu earthquake because Ningxia was a part of Gansu when the earthquake occurred....
 36.6 105.32200,0008.6 MS
01922-01-31January 31, 1922 13:17 offshore, Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.7 -125.55 7.3 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01922-03-10March 10, 1922 11:21 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.9 120.9 6.1 M (Bakun and McEvilly, 1984)
01923-01-22January 22, 1923 09:04 offshore, Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.49 -125.32 7.2 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01923-09-01September 1, 1923 02:58 Kanto region
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see 1923 Great Kanto earthquake
1923 Great Kanto earthquake

The struck the Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honshu at 11:58 on the morning of September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes....
 35.4 139.08143,0007.9 M
01925-03-01February 2, 1925 02:19 Charlevoix
Charlevoix

The Charlevoix region, located in Quebec, includes parts of the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River and the Laurentian Mountains region of the Canadian Shield....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

see 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake
1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake

The 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the entire northeastern part of North America on February 2, 1925, reaching 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale....
 47.76 -69.84 6.3 M (Bent, 1992)
01925-06-28June 28, 1925 01:21 Clarkston Valley, Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 46.32 -111.52 6.6 M (Dosier, 1989)
01925-06-29June 29, 1925 14:42 Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.3 -119.8136.8 M (Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01926-10-22October 22, 1926 12:35 Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay is a Headlands and bays of the Pacific Ocean, south of San Francisco between the cities of Santa Cruz, California and Monterey, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.62 -122.35 6.1 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01926-10-22October 22, 1926 13:35 Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay is a Headlands and bays of the Pacific Ocean, south of San Francisco between the cities of Santa Cruz, California and Monterey, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.55 -122.18 6.1 MG-R (Ellsworth, 1990)
01927-03-07March 7, 1927 09:27 Tango Peninsula, northern Kyoto Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Kinki region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kyoto....
, Kinki region, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 35.8 134.923,0207.6 MS
01927-05-22May 22, 1927 22:32 Gulang
Gulang County

Gulang County is an administrative district in Gansu, the People's Republic of China. It is one of 58 County of China of Gansu. It is part of the Wuwei, Gansu prefecture, with the city of the same name being the prefecture seat....
, Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 37.39 102.3140,0007.9 MS
01927-11-04November 4, 1927 13:51 offshore Lompoc
Lompoc, California

Lompoc is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, California, United States. The population was 41,103 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.92 -121.03 7.1 M (Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01929-11-18November 18, 1929 20:32 Grand Banks, Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 44.69 -56.01 7.3 M (Bent, 1995)
01932-12-21December 21, 1932 06:10 Cedar Mountain
Cedar Mountain

Cedar Mountain, also known as Slaughter Mountain, is a piedmont monadnock in Culpeper County, Virginia, Virginia. The ridge is south of the town of Culpeper, Virginia and just to the northwest of the northern tip of the Southwest Mountains at Clark Mountain....
, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.51 -118.08 7.2 M
01933-03-02March 2, 1933 17:31 Off the Pacific coast of Sanriku, Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
, Tohoku region
Tohoku region

The is a geographical area of Japan. Tohoku is Japanese language for "northeast," and the Tohoku region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see 1933 Sanriku earthquake
1933 Sanriku earthquake

The was a major earthquake whose associated tsunami caused widespread damage to towns on the Iwate Prefecture coast of the Tohoku region of Honshu, Japan in 1933....
 39.22 144.622,9908.4 M
01933-03-11March 11, 1933 01:54 Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 
see 1933 Long Beach earthquake
1933 Long Beach earthquake

The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, 1933 at 17:55 Pacific Standard Time , with a moment magnitude scale of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California....
 33.6 -1181156.4 M (Hauksson & Gross, 1991)
01933-11-20November 20, 1933 23:21 Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay is a sea between the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean oceans. It is 1,130 km across from north to south. It is not navigable most of the year because of the presence of large numbers of icebergs....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 73 -69.98 7.4 M (Stein et al. 1979)
01934-01-15January 15, 1934 08:43 Bihar
Bihar

Bihar is a States and territories of India in East India. Bihar is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size 38,202 square mile and 3rd largest by population....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 1934 Bihar earthquake
1934 Bihar earthquake

File:Gandhi in Bihar after the earthquake.jpgThe 1934 Bihar earthquake was the one of worst earthquakes of India. Some 30,000 people were said to have died Munger and Muzaffarpur were completely destroyed....
 27.55 87.0910,7008.1 M (Chen and Molnar, 1977)
01934-06-08June 8, 1934 04:47 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.9 -120.9 6.1 M (Bakun and McEvilly, 1984)
01935-11-01November 1, 1935 06:03 Témiscaming
Témiscaming, Quebec

T?miscaming is a town located at the south end of Lake Timiskaming on the upper Ottawa River in the T?miscamingue Regional County Municipality, Quebec of western Quebec, Canada....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

See 1935 Timiskaming earthquake
1935 Timiskaming earthquake

The 1935 Timiskaming earthquake was a Richter magnitude scale 6.2 earthquake that occurred on November 1, 1935 in the Abitibi-T?miscamingue region of Quebec....
.		 48.89 -79 6.2 M (Bent, 1996)
01937-07-22July 22, 1937 17:09 Salcha, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 64.49 -146.85 7.3 MS
01938-01-23January 23, 1938 08:32 Maui
Maui

The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles and is the List of islands of the United States by area....
, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 20.96 -156.18 6.8 MS (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01938-11-10November 10, 1938 20:18 Shumagin Islands
Shumagin Islands

The Shumagin Islands are a group of 20 islands in the Aleutians East Borough, Alaska south of the mainland of Alaska, USA, at54?54'?55?20' North 159?15'?160?45' West....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 55.33 -158.37 8.2 M
01939-12-26December 26, 1939 23:57 Erzincan
Erzincan

Erzincan is the capital of Erzincan Province Provinces of Turkey in the eastern Anatolian region of Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bing?l, Elazig, Malatya, Gumushane, Bayburt, and Giresun....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....

see 1939 Erzincan earthquake
1939 Erzincan earthquake

The Erzincan earthquake of 1939 was a major natural disaster that hit the province of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey at 1:57 am on December 27, 1939....
 39.77 39.5332,7007.8 MS
01940-05-19May 19, 1940 04:36 Imperial Valley, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 32.73 -115.597.1 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01940-11-10November 10, 1940 01:39 Vrancea
Vrancea

Vrancea may refer to:* Vrancea County, Romania* Vrancea Mountains, Romania...
, Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 45.80 26.704,0007.4 M (LT, 2007)
01944-12-07December 7, 1944 04:35 Off the east coast of Kii Peninsula
Kii Peninsula

The is one of the largest peninsulas on the island of Honshu in Japan....
, Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture

File:WakayamaMapCurrent.png is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Wakayama, Wakayama....
, Kinki region, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

known as 		33.75 1361,2238.1 M
01946-04-01April 1, 1946 12:28 Unimak Island
Unimak Island

Unimak Island is the largest island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the easternmost island in the Aleutians and, with an area of 4,069.9 km? , the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 52.75 -163.51657.3 MS (Stover and Coffman, 1993)
01946-06-23June 23, 1946 17:13 Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
, British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

see 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake
1946 Vancouver Island earthquake

The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake was a 7.3 moment magnitude scale earthquake that struck Vancouver Island on the British Columbia Coast, Canada at 10:15 a.m....
 49.75 -124.5 7.3 ML (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954: Rogers, 1983)
01946-08-04August 4, 1946 17:51 Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
 19.25 -691008 MS (Abe, 1981)
01946-12-20December 20, 1946 19:19 Off southern Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture

File:WakayamaMapCurrent.png is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Wakayama, Wakayama....
, Kinki-Shikoku
Shikoku

is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of Kyushu island. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima ....
 regions, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see 1946 Nankaido earthquake
1946 Nankaido earthquake

The 1946 Nankaido earthquake was a major earthquake in Nankaido, Japan. It occurred on December 20, 1946 at 19:19 UTC. The earthquake was colossal, measuring 8.1 on the moment magnitude scale, and was felt from Northern Honshu to Kyushu....
 32.5 134.51,3308.1 M
01947-10-16October 16, 1947 02:09 Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a Devolution City in and the county seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, Alaska, United States.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Alaska Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage, Alaska....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 64.2 -148.3 7.2 M
01949-04-13April 13, 1949 19:55 Olympia
Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the Capital of Washington and is the county seat of Thurston County, Washington. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 44,460 at the 2007 census....
, Washington
Washington

Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 47.1 -122.787.1 ML (Baker and Langston, 1987)
01949-08-22August 22, 1949 04:01 Queen Charlotte Islands
Queen Charlotte Islands

The Queen Charlotte Islands or Haida Gwaii , and originally in Haida language, Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai , are an archipelago on the British Columbia Coast, Canada....
, British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

see 1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake
1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake

The Queen Charlotte earthquake of 1949 was a Moment magnitude scale 8.1 interplate earthquake that struck the sparsely populated Queen Charlotte Islands and the Pacific Northwest coast on August 22, 1949....
 53.62 -133.27 8.1 MS (Gutenberg and Richter, 1954)
01950-08-15August 15, 1950 14:09 Assam
Assam

Assam ) is a North-East India state of India with its capital at Dispur, in the outskirts of the city Guwahati. Located south of the eastern Himalayas, Assam comprises the Brahmaputra and the Barak River river valleys and the Karbi Anglong District and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30,285 square miles ....
-Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
 28.5 96.51,5268.6 M
01951-08-21August 21, 1951 10:57 Kona, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.5 -155.95 6.9 MS (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01952-07-21July 21, 1952 11:52 Kern County
Kern County, California

Kern County is a county located in the southern California Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Established in 1866, it extends east beyond the southern slope of the eastern Sierra Nevada into the Mojave Desert, and includes parts of the Indian Wells Valley, and the Antelope Valley, and has an area larger than the state of Connec...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.95 -119.05127.3 M (Stein and Hanks, 1998)
01952-11-04November 4, 1952 16:58 Kamchatka
Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of 472,300 km?. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....

see Kamchatka earthquakes
Kamchatka earthquakes

The Kamchatka earthquakes were a pair of megathrust earthquakes occurring off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia on October 16, 1737, and on November 4, 1952, with resulting tsunamis following....
 52.76 160.06 9 M
01954-03-29March 29, 1954 06:17 Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 37.03 -3.51 7.9 M
01954-07-06July 6, 1954 11:13 Rainbow Mountain, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.42 -118.53 6.6 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01954-08-24August 24, 1954 05:51 Stillwater, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.58 -118.45 6.8 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01954-12-16December 16, 1954 11:07 Fairview Peak, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.32 -118.2 7.1 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01954-12-16December 16, 1954 11:11 Dixie Valley, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.5 -118 6.8 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01955-10-24October 24, 1955 04:10 Concord
Concord, California

Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 121,780....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38 -122.115.4 ML (Bolt and Miller, 1975)
01957-03-09March 9, 1957 14:22 Andreanof Islands
Andreanof Islands

The Andreanof Islands are a group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. They are located between Amchitka Pass and the Rat Islands group to the west, and Amukta Pass and the Islands of Four Mountains group to the east, at about 52? North and 172?57' to 179?09' West....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake
1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake

The 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake was a Moment magnitude scale 8.3 megathrust earthquake that took place on March 9, 1957. It was centered at , south of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S....
 51.56 -175.39 9.1 M
01957-12-04December 4, 1957 03:37 Govi-Altai Province, Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
 45.15 99.21308.1 M
01958-04-07April 7, 1958 15:30 Huslia
Huslia, Alaska

Huslia is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 United States Census the population was 293....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 65.94 -156.37 7.3 M
01958-07-10July 10, 1958 06:15 Fairweather
Mount Fairweather

Mount Fairweather is a mountain located 20 km east of the Pacific Ocean in Glacier Bay National Park of the United States. While the majority of the mountain lies within the Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska, Alaska, the actual summit is in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park in British Columbia, making it the highest point in that Provinces and territo...
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 
comment caused megatsunami
Megatsunami

Megatsunami is an informal term to indicate a tsunami that has initial wave heights that are much larger than normal tsunami. Unlike usual tsunamis, which originate from tectonic plate and the raising or lowering of the sea floor, known megatsunamis have originated from large scale impact events such as landslides and meteor impacts....
 in Lituya Bay
Lituya Bay

Lituya Bay is a fjord located at in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 14.5 km long and 3.2 km wide at its widest point. The bay was discovered in 1786 by Jean-Fran?ois de La P?rouse, who named it Port des Fran?ais....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
 58.37 -136.6657.7 M
01959-08-18August 18, 1959 06:37 Hebgen Lake
Hebgen Lake

Hebgen Lake is a lake located in Southwest Montana. It is well known for a magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake which occurred nearby on August 17, 1959, forming Quake Lake which is located immediately downstream....
, Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake
1959 Yellowstone earthquake

The 1959 Yellowstone earthquake also known as the Hebgen Lake earthquake was a powerful earthquake that occurred on August 17, 1959 at 11:37 pm in southwestern Montana....
 44.6 -110.64287.3 M (Dosier, 1985)
01960-02-29February 29, 1960 23:40 Agadir
Agadir

Agadir is a major city in southwest Morocco, capital of the Agadir province and the Sous-Massa-Draa economic region ....
, Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....

see 1960 Agadir earthquake
1960 Agadir earthquake

The 1960 Agadir earthquake took place on February 29, 1960, at 23:40 in the evening. It was the most destructive and deadliest earthquake in Morocco history with a magnitude of 5.7 Moment magnitude scale, killing around 15,000 people and wounding another 12,000....
)		 30.5 -9.310,0005.7 M
01960-05-22May 22, 1960 19:11 Valdivia, Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....

see 1960 Valdivia earthquake		 -38.24 -73.055,7009.5 M
01964-03-28March 28, 1964 03:36 Prince William Sound
Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound is a Sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1964 Alaska earthquake		 61.02 -147.651259.2 M
01964-06-16June 16, 1964 04:01 Off northern Niigata Prefecture
Niigata Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Honshu island on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The capital is the city of Niigata, Niigata. The name Niigata literally means "New Lagoon"....
, Chubu region
Chubu region

The is the central region of Honshu, Japan's main island. Chubu has a population estimate of 21,886,324 as of 2008.Chubu, which means "central region", encompasses nine prefectures: Aichi Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Yamanashi...
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 38.43 139.23267.5 M
01965-02-04February 4, 1965 05:01 Rat Islands
Rat Islands

The Rat Islands are a volcanic group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska, between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west, and Amchitka Pass and the Andreanof Islands group to its east, at about ....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 51.21 -178.5 8.7 M
01965-04-29April 29, 1965 08:29 Seattle
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
-Tacoma
Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park....
, Washington
Washington

Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 47.32 -122.3376.5 ML (Algermissen and Harding, 1965)
01966-06-28June 28, 1966 04:26 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.88 -120.49 6.1 M (Tsai and Aki, 1969)
01966-09-12September 12, 1966 16:41 Truckee
Truckee, California

Truckee is an List of cities in California in Nevada County, California, California, United States. The population was 13,864 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.38 -120.22 5.9 M (Tsai and Aki, 1970)
01967-12-10December 10, 1967 22:51 Koynanagar, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 17.39 73.77 6.3 M (Langston, 1976)
01968-08-31August 31, 1968 22:51 Dasht Bayaz & Ferdows
Ferdows

Ferdows , the center of Ferdows County, is a city located in the northwest of South Khorasan Province in Iran. It is about 345 km South of Mashhad and 200 km Northwest of Birjand....
, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....

see 1968 Dasht-e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquake
1968 Dasht-e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquake

Dasht-e Bayaz and Ferdows Earthquake, were two successive earthquakes, which hit Dashte Bayaz, Kakhk and Ferdows, Iran.The first earthquake occurred on August 31, 1968, measuring 7.3 on the Richter magnitude scale and destroyed 5 villages totally in the Dasht-e Bayaz area, and at least half of the buildings in another 6 villages from Kakhk...
 33.9 59.027,000-12,0007.3 
01969-10-02October 2, 1969 06:19 Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. As of January 1, 2007, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 157,985 residents....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.3 -122.7615.7 ML (Bolt and Miller, 1975)
01970-05-31May 31, 1970 20:23 Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 -9.25 -78.8466,0007.9 M
01970-07-31July 31, 1970 17:08 Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 -1.49 -72.56 8 MS
01971-02-09February 9, 1971 14:00 Sylmar, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see Sylmar earthquake
Sylmar earthquake

The 1971 San Fernando earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley near Sylmar, Los Angeles, California at 6:00:55 a.m. Pacific time zone on February 9 1971, with a moment magnitude scale of 6.6....
 34.4 -118.39656.7 M (Heaton, 1982)
01972-12-23December 23, 1972 06:29 Managua, Nicaragua
Managua

Managua is the Capital city of Nicaragua as well as the Managua and Managua, Managua by the same name. It is also the largest city in Nicaragua....
 
see 1972 Nicaragua earthquake
1972 Nicaragua earthquake

The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake refers to the earthquake that occurred at 12:29 a.m. on Saturday, December 23, 1972 in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua....
 12.35 86.126,0006.2 MW (Brown, R. D., P. L. Ward, and G. Plafker (1973))
01975-02-04February 4, 1975 11:36 Haicheng, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see 1975 Haicheng earthquake
1975 Haicheng earthquake

The 1975 Haicheng earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale occurred at 19:36 Chinese Standard Time on February 4, 1975 in Haicheng, Liaoning, China, a city that at the time had approximately 1 million residents....
 40.72 122.7310,0007 M (Cipar, 1979)
01975-08-01August 1, 1975 20:20 Oroville
Oroville, California

Oroville is the county seat of Butte County, California. The population was 13,004 at the United States 2000 census, and is one of the faster growing towns in California, with an 11.9% increase in population from 2000 to June 2007....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 39.5 -121.39 5.8 M
01975-11-29November 29, 1975 14:47 south flank of Kilauea
Kilauea

Kilauea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the Hawaii . In Hawaiian language, the word kilauea means "spewing" or "much spreading", in reference to the mountain's frequent outpouring of lava....
, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.45 -155.0327.2 MS (Klein and Wright, 2000)
01976-02-04February 4, 1976 09:01 Guatemala
Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
 15.3 -89.1423,0007.5 M
01976-07-27July 27, 1976 19:42 Tangshan
Tangshan

Tangshan is a mainly industrial prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It became known after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale which flattened the city....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see Tangshan earthquake		 39.61 117.89242,419*7.6 M
01978-09-16September 16, 1978 19:38 Tabas
Tabas

Tabas , center of Tabas County, is a city of 30,000 people, located in central Iran, 950 kilometers southeast of Tehran, in the province of Yazd Province....
, Yazd Province
Yazd Province

Yazd is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the centre of the country, and its center is Yazd.The province has an area of 73,467 km?, and according to the most recent divisions of the country, is divided into ten counties: Maybod, Mehreez, Taft, Yazd, Ardakan, Behabad, Khatam, Sadogh, Bafq, Abar Kooh and Yazd, the capital....
, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....

see 1978 Tabas earthquake
1978 Tabas earthquake

On September 16, 1978, a huge earthquake struck, measuring 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. The death toll was around 26000 and the worst damage was to the town Tabas, which was at the epicentre of the quake and completely flattened....
   7.7 
01979-08-06August 6, 1979 17:05 Coyote Lake (Santa Clara County, California)
Coyote Lake (Santa Clara County, California)

Coyote Lake is an artificial lake in Santa Clara County, California, USA, located at north of Gilroy, California.The lake is impounded by Coyote Dam , a high, long, earth and rock dam built in 1936....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.11 -121.52 5.7 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01979-10-15October 15, 1979 23:17 Imperial Valley, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 32.82 -115.65 6.4 M (Hartzell and Heaton, 1983)
01980-01-24January 24, 1980 19:00 Livermore
Livermore, California

Livermore is a city in Alameda County, California, California, United States. The population was 73,345 at the 2000 United States Census, but estimated by city officials to be presently in 100,000 + ....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.71 -121.73 5.8 M (Bolt et al., 1981)
01980-05-25May 25, 1980 16:33 Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes, California

Mammoth Lakes is an Municipal corporation town in Mono County, California, California, United States. The population was 7,093 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.6 -118.83 6.1 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01980-05-25May 25, 1980 16:49 Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes, California

Mammoth Lakes is an Municipal corporation town in Mono County, California, California, United States. The population was 7,093 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.65 -118.9 5.9 ML (Ellsworth, 1990)
01980-05-25May 25, 1980 19:44 Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes, California

Mammoth Lakes is an Municipal corporation town in Mono County, California, California, United States. The population was 7,093 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.55 -118.82 5.8 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01980-05-27May 27, 1980 14:50 Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes, California

Mammoth Lakes is an Municipal corporation town in Mono County, California, California, United States. The population was 7,093 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.48 -118.8 6 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01980-11-08November 8, 1980 10:27 Gorda Plate
Gorda Plate

The Gorda Plate, located beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California, is one of the northern remnants of the Farallon Plate. It is sometimes referred to as simply the southernmost portion of the neighboring Juan de Fuca Plate, another Farallon remnant....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 41.12 -124.67 7.2 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01980-11-23November 23, 1980 19:34 Irpinia
Irpinia

Irpinia is a region of the Apennine Mountains around Avellino, a town in Campania, South Italy about 40 km east of Naples. In antiquity this was the territory of the Hirpini; its extent corresponds approximately to that of today?s province of Avellino....
, Southern Italy		 40.87 15.3127356.8 M
01983-05-02May 2, 1983 23:42 Coalinga
Coalinga, California

Coalinga is a city in Fresno County, California. The population was 11,668 at the 2000 census and was estimated at 18,061 in 2007. It is the site of both Pleasant Valley State Prison and Coalinga State Hospital...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.23 -120.32 6.5 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01983-03-31March 31, 1983  Popayan
Popayán

Popay?n is a municipality and def. is a capital city of the Colombian departments of Colombia of Cauca Department, with a population of about 215,000 people....
, Cauca Department
Cauca Department

Cauca is a departments of Colombia of Colombia. Located in the south-western of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila Department to the east and the Nari?o Department to the south, covering a total area of 29,308 km?, the 13th largest in Colomb...
, Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  1975.5 
01983-10-28October 28, 1983 14:06 Borah Peak
Borah Peak

Borah Peak is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is located in the central section of the Lost River Range and within the Challis National Forest....
, Idaho
Idaho

The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 44.09 -113.827 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01983-11-16November 16, 1983 16:13 Kaoiki, Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 19.44 155.38 6.7 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01984-04-24April 24, 1984 21:15 Morgan Hill
Morgan Hill, California

Morgan Hill is a city located in the southern part of Santa Clara County, California, USA. Founded on November 10, 1906, the city was named after Hiram Morgan Hill, a San Francisco, California who built a country retreat home there in 1884....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.3 -121.71 6.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01984-11-23November 23, 1984 18:08 Round Valley
Round Valley, California

Round Valley is a census-designated place in Inyo County, California, California, United States. The population was 278 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.45 -118.6 5.7 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01985-09-19September 19, 1985 13:17 Michoacán
Michoacán

Michoac?n formally Michoac?n de Ocampo , is one of the 31 constituent States of Mexico of Mexico. It borders the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west, Guanajuato and Quer?taro to the north, Mexico to the east, Guerrero to the south-east, and the Pacific Ocean to the south....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....

see 1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake

The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck Mexico on 19 September 1985 at 7:19 local time, causing the deaths of about 10,000 people and serious damage in the Mexico City....
 18.44 -102.369,5008 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01985-12-23December 23, 1985 05:16 Nahanni
Nahanni National Park Reserve

Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, approximately west of Yellowknife, protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region....
, Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories are a provinces and territories of Canada of Canada.Located in northern Canada, it borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 62.16 -124.31 6.8 M (Wetmiller et al., 1988)
01986-05-07May 7, 1986 22:47 Andreanof Islands
Andreanof Islands

The Andreanof Islands are a group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. They are located between Amchitka Pass and the Rat Islands group to the west, and Amukta Pass and the Islands of Four Mountains group to the east, at about 52? North and 172?57' to 179?09' West....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 51.56 -174.81 8 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01986-07-08July 8, 1986 09:20 north Palm Springs
Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 33.97 -116.78 6.1 M (Hartzell, 1989)
01986-07-21July 21, 1986 14:42 Chalfant Valley
Chalfant Valley, California

Chalfant Valley is a small, primarily residential community of 530 people located in unincorporated Mono County, California north of the Bishop, California in Mono County on U.S....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 37.53 -118.43 6.2 M (Ellsworth, 1990)
01987-10-01October 1, 1987 14:42 Whittier Narrows
Whittier Narrows

The Whittier Narrows is located at the southern boundary of the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California. It is a gap in the Puente Hills where the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River converge....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see Whittier Narrows earthquake
Whittier Narrows earthquake

The Whittier Narrows earthquake struck the southern San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities of southern California at 7:42 a.m. on October 1, 1987....
 34.06 -118.1385.9 M (Hartzell and Iida, 1990)
01987-11-30November 30, 1987 19:23 Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 58.84 -142.6 7.9 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01988-01-22January 22, 1988 00:35 Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory

Tennant Creek is a town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory and it is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway....
, Northern Territory
Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 -19.87 133.78 6.3 M (Choy and Bowman, 1990)
01988-01-22January 22, 1988 03:57 Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory

Tennant Creek is a town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory and it is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway....
, Northern Territory
Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 -19.88 133.83 6.4 M (Choy and Bowman, 1990)
01988-01-22January 22, 1988 12:04 Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory

Tennant Creek is a town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory and it is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western terminus of the Barkly Highway....
, Northern Territory
Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 -19.9 133.83 6.6 M (Choy and Bowman, 1990)
01988-03-06March 6, 1988 22:35 Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 57.26 -142.75 7.8 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01988-11-25November 25, 1988 23:46 Saguenay
Saguenay

Saguenay refers to:...
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 48.06 -71.27 5.9 M (Boatwright and Choy, 1992)
01988-12-07December 7, 1988 07:41 Spitak
Spitak

Spitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location....
, Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....

see Spitak Earthquake		 40.93 44.1125,0006.8 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01989-10-17October 17, 1989 00:04 Loma Prieta
Loma Prieta

Loma Prieta is a Northern California mountain with elevation 3,786 feet and located at approximately 37.114? N, 121.846 W in the Santa Cruz Mountains....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake		 37.14 -121.76636.9 M (Wald et al., 1991)
01989-12-25December 25, 1989 14:24 Ungava Peninsula
Ungava Peninsula

The Ungava Peninsula of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Hudson Strait to the north, and Ungava Bay to the east. The Ungava Peninsula is part of the Labrador Peninsula and covers about 252,000 km? ....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 60.07 -73.54 6 M (Bent, 1994)
01991-06-28June 28, 1991 14:43 Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre, California

Sierra Madre is a town in Los Angeles County, California. The population was about 10,580 at the time of the 2000 census. It is in the Foothills of California of the San Gabriel Mountains below the southern edge of the Angeles National Forest with the cities of Pasadena, California and Altadena, California to its west, and Arcadia, California...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.25 -117.9525.6 M (Wald et al., 1991)
01991-08-17August 17, 1991 22:17 Honeydew
Honeydew, California

Honeydew is a small unincorporated area town in the U.S. state of California and is home to less than 1,000 residents. Honeydew is located from the Pacific Ocean in an area that is known as "The Lost Coast"....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 41.79 -125.58 7.1 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01992-04-23April 23, 1992 04:50 Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree, California

Joshua Tree is a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, California, United States. The population was 4,207 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 33.87 -116.55 6.1 M (Hauksson et al., 1993)
01992-04-25April 25, 1992 18:06 Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.38 -124.05 7.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01992-04-26April 26, 1992 07:41 offshore, Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.55 -124.29 6.5 M (Oppenheimer et al., 1993)
01992-04-26April 26, 1992 11:18 offshore, Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.44 -124.43 6.7 M (Oppenheimer et al., 1993)
01992-06-28June 28, 1992 11:57 Landers
Landers, California

Landers is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California. The town lies in the Homestead Valley of the Mojave Desert, northeast of Flamingo Heights....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see Landers earthquake		 34.2 -116.5237.3 M (Sieh et al. 1993)
01992-06-29June 29, 1992 10:14 Little Skull Mountain, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 36.77 -116.32 5.7 M (Walter, 1993)
01992-09-02September 2, 1992 00:16 Nicaragua
Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
 11.77 -87.351167.7 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01993-09-29September 29, 1993 22:25 Latur
Latur

Latur is a city and a municipal council in Latur district in Maharashtra state of India. It is well known for its foodgrain trade and oil mills....
-Killari, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 18.08 76.529,7486.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01994-01-17January 17, 1994 12:30 Reseda, Los Angeles
Reseda, Los Angeles, California

Reseda is a San Fernando Valley district in the city of Los Angeles, California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 1994 Northridge earthquake		 34.18 -118.56606.7 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01994-06-09June 9, 1994 00:33 Bolivia
Bolivia

The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
 -13.86 -67.4958.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01994-09-01September 1, 1994 15:15 Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California. It has been a landmark since the 16th century when the Manila Galleons would reach the coast here following the Westerlies all the way across the Pacific, then make their way down the coast all the way to Acapulco, Mexico....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 40.38 -125.78 7.1 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01995-01-17January 17, 1995 05:46 Southern Hyogo Prefecture
Hyogo Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Kinki region on Honshu island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo....
, Kinki region, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see Kobe earthquake
Great Hanshin earthquake

The Great Hanshin Earthquake, or Kobe earthquake as it is more commonly known outside Japan, was an earthquake that occurred on Tuesday, January 17, 1995, at 05:46 Japan Standard Time in the southern part of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan....
 34.57 135.035,5026.9 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01997-05-21May 21, 1997 22:51 Jabalpur
Jabalpur

Jabalpur, also known as Sanskardhani, is a city in the States and territories of India of Madhya Pradesh in India. Jabalpur is one of the important cities of Central India....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 23.07 80.12385.8 M (Singh et al., 1999)
01998-07-17July 17, 1998 08:49 New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
 -2.94 142.582,1837 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01999-01-25January 25, 1999 13:19 Quindio And Risaralda
Risaralda

Risaralda may refer to:* Risaralda Department, in Colombia* Risaralda River* Risaralda, Caldas a town and municipality in Caldas Department...
,Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 4.45 -75.651,1856.2 
01999-08-17August 17, 1999 00:01 Izmit
Izmit

Izmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan municipality. It is located at the Gulf of Izmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....

see Izmit earthquake
1999 Izmit earthquake

The 1999 Izmit earthquake was a 7.6 Moment magnitude scale earthquake that struck northwestern Turkey on August 17, 1999, at about 3:01am local time....
 40.77 3017,1187.6 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01999-09-20September 20, 1999 17:47 Chichi, Nantou, Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...

see 1999 Chichi earthquake		 23.82 120.862,4007.7 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01999-10-16October 16, 1999 09:46 Hector Mine, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 34.56 -116.44 7.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
01999-11-12November 12, 1999 16:57 Düzce
Düzce

D?zce is the capital city of D?zce Province Provinces of Turkey in Turkey....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 40.82 31.238947.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02000-09-03September 3, 2000 08:36 Napa
Napa, California

Napa is the county seat of Napa County, California, California. It is the principal city of the Napa county Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Napa county....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 38.38 -122.41 5 M (BRK)
02000-11-16November 16, 2000 04:54 New Ireland
New Ireland (island)

New Ireland is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately 8,650 km? in area. It is the main and largest island of the New Ireland Province....
, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
 -4 152.33 8 
02001-01-13January 13, 2001 17:33 El Salvador
El Salvador

El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....
 13.04 -88.668447.7 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02001-01-26January 26, 2001 03:16 Gujarat
Gujarat

Gujarat is a States and territories of India in western India. Gujarat borders Pakistan to the north west and the state of Rajasthan to the north and northeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territory of Diu, Daman District, India, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....

see 2001 Gujarat earthquake
2001 Gujarat earthquake

The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred on January 26 2001, at 03:17 UTC, and coincided with the 51st celebration of Republic Day . The location of the epicentre was Bhuj Gujarat, India....
 23.39 70.2320,0857.7 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02001-02-28February 28, 2001 18:54 Olympia
Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the Capital of Washington and is the county seat of Thurston County, Washington. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 44,460 at the 2007 census....
, Washington
Washington

Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 2001 Nisqually earthquake		 47.11 -122.6 6.8 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02001-06-23June 23, 2001 20:33 coastal Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 -16.3 -73.55758.4 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02002-03-25March 25, 2002 14:56 Hindu Kush
Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush is a mountain range located in eastern and central Afghanistan, northwestern Pakistan and northeastern India.The origin of the name Hindu Kush is disputed, despite its coinage apparently dating back no further than c.1330....
 Region, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
 36.06 69.321,0006.1 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02002-04-20April 20, 2002 10:50 Au Sable Forks
Au Sable Forks, New York

Au Sable Forks is a hamlet located in the in Essex County, New York, but some of the developed area is inside Clinton County, New York. The population was 670 at the 2000 census....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 44.51 -73.7 5.2 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02002-11-03November 3, 2002 22:12 Denali National Park
Denali National Park and Preserve

Denali National Park and Preserve is located in Interior of Alaska Alaska and contains Mount McKinley , the tallest mountain in North America. The park and preserve together cover 9,492 mi? ....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see 2002 Denali earthquake
2002 Denali earthquake

The 2002 Denali earthquake occurred at 22:12:41 UTC November 3, 2002, with an epicenter 66 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska. This 7.9 Moment magnitude scale earthquake was the largest recorded in the interior of the United States for more than 150 years....
 63.52 -147.44 7.9 M (QED)
02003-05-21May 21, 2003 18:44 Boumerdès
Boumerdès

Boumerd?s is the capital city of Boumerd?s Province, Algeria. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea.Boumerd?s is a seaside city located in the north of Algeria about 50km east of Algiers....
, Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
 
see 2003 Boumerdès earthquake
2003 Boumerdès earthquake

The 2003 Boumerd?s earthquake occurred on May 21, 2003 in northern Algeria. The epicentre of the earthquake was located at the town of Th?nia in Boumerd?s Province, approximately 60 km east of the capital Algiers....
 36.96 3.632,2666.8 M (QED)
02003-09-25September 25, 2003 19:50 Southeast off Tokachi
Tokachi Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido, Japan corresponding to the old provinces of Japan of Tokachi Province. As of 2004 its estimated population is 360,802 and its area is 10,830.99 km?....
-Hidaka
Hidaka Subprefecture

is a Subprefectures in Hokkaido of Hokkaido, Japan. The west side of the Hidaka mountains occupies most of the area. Hidaka is sparsely populated and has many of Hokkaido's natural resources....
 Subprefectures, Hokkaido
Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

see 2003 Hokkaido earthquake
2003 Hokkaido earthquake

The 2003 Hokkaido earthquake occurred on September 25, 2003 in Hokkaido, Japan. It measured 8.3 on the Moment magnitude scaleand caused extensive damage, destroying roads all around Hokkaido, and caused several power outages and further damaging landslides....

known as 		41.82 143.91 8.3 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02003-11-17November 17, 2003 06:43 Rat Islands
Rat Islands

The Rat Islands are a volcanic group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska, between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west, and Amchitka Pass and the Andreanof Islands group to its east, at about ....
, Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 51.15 178.65 7.8 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02003-12-22December 22, 2003 19:15 San Simeon
San Simeon, California

San Simeon is an unincorporated area settlement on the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California. Its position along California State Route 1 is approximately halfway between Los Angeles, California and San Francisco, each of those cities being roughly 230 mi away....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 35.71 -121.1026.6 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02003-12-26December 26, 2003 01:56 southeastern Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....

see Bam: 2003 earthquake
Bam, Iran

Bam is a city in Kerman Province of Iran. The city is the center of Bam County. The modern Iranian city of Bam surrounds the Arg-? Bam. Before the 2003 earthquake the official population count of the city was roughly 43,000....
 29.00 58.3131,0006.6 M (PDE Monthly Listing)
02004-09-28September 28, 2004 17:15 Parkfield
Parkfield, California

Parkfield is a village in Monterey County, California, California. As of 2007 road signs announce the population as 18 but some sources list the population as 900....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

see Parkfield-San Bernardino earthquake		 35.81 -120.37 6.0 M (QED)
02004-12-26December 26, 2004 00:58 off west coast northern Sumatra
Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
, Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....

see 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

The was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 Coordinated Universal Time on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia....
 3.30 95.87300,000 is the Minimum number of dead and missing according to several sources9.3 M (QED)
02005-03-28March 28, 2005 16:09 Northern Sumatra
Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
, Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....

see 2005 Sumatra earthquake
2005 Sumatra earthquake

The 2005 Sumatra earthquake, referred to as the Nias Earthquake by the scientific community, was a major earthquake on 28 March 2005, located off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia....
 2.07 97.011,3138.7 M (QED)
02007-10-30October 30, 2007 16:09 San Jose, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 37 12205.6 M (QED)
02008-05-12May 12, 2008 14:28 Sichuan
Sichuan

is a Province in western China proper with its capital in Chengdu. The current name of the province, ?? , is an abbreviation of ??? , or "Four circuit #Circuits in East Asia of rivers", which is itself abbreviated from ???? , or "Four circuits of rivers and gorges", named after the division of the existing circuit into four during the Song...
, Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
 and Shaanxi
Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

see 2008 Sichuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake

The List_of_deadliest_natural_disasters#Earthquakes, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , or "Great Sichuan Earthquake", which measured at 8.0 Surface wave magnitude		 31.0 103.465,000 current estimate**8.0 M (QED)
† MG-R = Gutenberg and Richter's (1954) magnitude, MS = 20 s surface-wave magnitude, M = moment magnitude
Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale is used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy released. The scale was developed in the 1970s to succeed to 1930s-era Richter magnitude scale....
 (Hanks and Kanamori, 1979), and MI is an intensity magnitude, ML is local magnitude (Richter, 1935). 
‡ GMT
 * Fatalities estimated as high as 655,000.
 ** Current death toll 69,197, could be over 87,000.

Source: United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it....
 (USGS)

Other earthquakes not listed by the USGS

Date Site Deaths Magnitude or intensity* Comments Source
464 BC Sparta
Sparta

Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 ? – Led to a helot
Helots

The helots were an unfree population group that formed the main population of Laconia and the whole of Messenia . Their exact status was already disputed in Antiquity: according to Critias, they were "especially Slavery in ancient Greece" whereas to Pollux, they occupied a status "between free men and slaves"....
 uprising and strained relations with Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, one of the factors that led to the Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War which lasted from 431-404BC was an Ancient Greece military conflict, fought by Athens and its Athenian empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta....
 –
226 BC Rhodes
Rhodes

Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 ? – Destroyed Colossus of Rhodes
Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Helios, erected on the Greece island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC....
 and city of Kameiros
Kameiros

Kameiros was a city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, lying on a peninsula on the northwest coast of the island. It was the heart of an agricultural region, and constituted one of three city states on Rhodes....
 –
365 Knossos
Knossos

Knossos , also known as the Knossos Palace is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture....
, Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
 (Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
)		 "thousands" XI 365 Crete earthquake
365 Crete earthquake

The 365 AD Crete earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 AD in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an assumed epicentre near Crete....
 Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Ancient Rome historian. His is the last major historical account of the late Roman empire which survives today....
 and numerous other late Antiquity
Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century to the Islamic conquests and the re-organization of the Byzantine Empire under...
 writers
365 Cyrene
Cyrene, Libya

Cyrene was an ancient Greece colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times....
, Libya
Libya

Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
 ? –   –
518 Sagalassos
Sagalassos

Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya , and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta. The ancient ruins of Sagalassos are 7 km from Aglasun in the province of Burdur, on Akdag, in the Western Taurus mountains mountain range, at an altitude of 1450-1700 metres....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 - –  Recent excavation of statues of Hadrian
Hadrian

Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
, Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
, Faustina the Elder
Faustina the Elder

Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina the Elder , was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius....
 Sagalassos#History
Sagalassos

Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya , and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta. The ancient ruins of Sagalassos are 7 km from Aglasun in the province of Burdur, on Akdag, in the Western Taurus mountains mountain range, at an altitude of 1450-1700 metres....
May 19, 526 Antioch
Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the nearer East and was a cradle of gentile hi...
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 (article)		 250,000 –  526's Antioch earthquake, The city of Antioch was greatly damaged, and some decades later the city's population was just 300,000. Procopius
Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine Empire scholar of the family Procopius . A participant himself in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he was the major historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History....
, II.14.6; sources based on John of Ephesus
John of Ephesus

John of Ephesus was a leader of the Oriental Orthodoxy Syriac-speaking Church in the sixth century, and one of the earliest and most important of historians who wrote in Syriac....
844 Damascus
Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 50,000 VIII   –
847 Mosul
Mosul

Mosul is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Ninawa Governorate, some 400 km northwest of Baghdad. The original city stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linkin...
, Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
 50,000 –   –
847 Damascus
Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 70,000 X   –
856 Corinth
Corinth

Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 45,000 –   –
893 Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 82,000 –   –
893 Udaipur, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 180,000 –   –
893 Ardabil
Ardabil

Ardabil is a historical city in north-western Iran. The name Ardabil probably comes from the Zoroastrian name of "Artavil" which means a holy place....
, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 150,000 –   –
1036 Shanxi
Shanxi

is a political divisions of China in the North China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-character abbreviation is Jin , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 23,000 –   –
1042 Palmyra
Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
, Baalbek
Baalbek

Baalbek is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 1,170 m , situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman Empire period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire....
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 50,000 X   –
1057 Chihli
Hebei

For the people of Hebei, see Hebei people is a North China province of China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province , a Han Dynasty province that included southern Hebei....
 (Hopeh), China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 25,000 –   –
1138 Ganzah, Aleppo
Aleppo

Aleppo is a city in northern Syria, capital of the Aleppo Governorate; the Governorate extends around the city for over 16,000 km? and has a population of 4,393,000, making it the largest Governorate in Syria by population....
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 230,000 XI   
1156-1157 Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 ? –  –
1170 Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 15,000 –   –
June 29, 1170 Eastern Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
 5,000-80,000 in Aleppo
25,000 in Hama		 7.3-7.5 -7.7 Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
, Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
, central southern Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 Numerous sources from Crusader times
July 5, 1201 Eastern Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
 1,100,000 IX Damage across a wide area from Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 to Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt

File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svgUpper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the Cataracts of the Nile section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut is sometimes known as Middle Egypt....
 –
1268 Cilicia
Cilicia

In antiquity, Cilicia now known as ?ukurova, was a commonly used name of the south coastal region of the Anatolian peninsula, and a political entity in Roman times....
, Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
 (Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
)		 60,000 – 1268 Cilicia earthquake
1268 Cilicia earthquake

The Cilicia earthquake in 1268 was one of the most tremendous earthquakes in which over 60,000 people perished . The earthquake occurred in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, in southern Asia Minor....
 –
September 27, 1290 Chihli
Hebei

For the people of Hebei, see Hebei people is a North China province of China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province , a Han Dynasty province that included southern Hebei....
 (Hopeh), China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 100,000 6.7   –
May 26, 1293 Kamakura
Kamakura, Kanagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, about south-south-west of Tokyo. It used to be also called . Although Kamakura proper is today rather small, it is sometimes considered a former de facto capital of Japan as the seat of the Shogunate and of the Shikken during the Kamakura Period....
, (now in Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefectures of Japan located in the southern Kanto region of Honshu, Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area....
, Kanto region
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
,) Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 30,000 –   –
October 18, 1356 Basel
Basel

Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city . With 731,000 inhabitants in the tri-national metropolitan area , Basel is Switzerland's third-largest urban area....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 1,000 6.5 1356 Basel earthquake
1356 Basel earthquake

The Basel earthquake of 18 October 1356 is the most significant Earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history. The earthquake destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland, sited near the southern end of the Upper Rhine Graben, and caused much destruction in a vast region extending into France and Germany....
 –
May 21, 1382 Canterbury
Canterbury

Canterbury lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
, UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 ?5.8 Struck during synod - later called "Earthquake Synod
Earthquake Synod

The Earthquake Synod took place on May 21, 1382 in London, England, in the area of Blackfriars, London. William Courtenay, the Archbishop of Canterbury, convened the synod to address the emerging Protestantism thinkers challenging the church....
" - called to condemn heresy of John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe was an English theologian, lay preacher, translator and reformist. Wycliffe was an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century....
 - some saw as portentous		 /
February 2, 1428 Catalonia
Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
 (now Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
)		100sVIII–IX The Catalan earthquake of 1428
Catalan earthquake of 1428

The Catalan earthquake of 2 February 1428, known in Catalan language as the terratr?mol de la candelera because it took place during the Candlemas, struck the region of Catalonia, especially Roussillon, with an epicentre near Camprodon....
 is sometimes called the terratrèmol de la candelera because it took place during the Candlemas
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus, and falls on or around 2 February. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Presentation is the fourth Rosary#The Mysteries of the Rosary....
.		 /
September 10, 1509 Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....

see 1509 Istanbul earthquake
1509 Istanbul earthquake

The 1509 Istanbul earthquake, referred to as The Lesser Judgment Day by contemporaries, was an earthquake that occurred in the Sea of Marmara on September 10, 1509....
 10,000 7.2  –
January 26, 1531 Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 30,000 –   –
July 13, 1605 Qiongshan, Hainan
Hainan

Hainan is the smallest Provinces of China of the People's Republic of China. Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 3,000 X   –
April 6, 1667 Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik

||-|File:Main street-Dubrovnik-2.jpg|-|File:Old City, Dubrovnik.jpg|-|File:Dubrovnik-F.Tudjman-Bridge.jpg|-|File:Onofrio's Fountain, Dubrovnik, Croatia.JPG...
, Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
 3,000 7,5   –
November 25, 1667 Shemakha
Shamakhi

Shamakhi or Shamakhy is a Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and a town in the rayon. It is the historical center of the region of Shirvan....
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
 80,000 XII   –
June 7, 1692 Port Royal
Port Royal

Port Royal, Jamaica was the centre of shipping commerce in the islands of the Greater Antilles which make up the northeastern part of the outer ring of islands defining and enclosing the Caribbean Sea....
, Jamaica
Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
 30,000 –   –
January 11, 1693 Catania Province
Province of Catania

Catania is a Provinces of Italy in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Catania.It has an area of 3,552 km?, and a total population of 1,073,881 ....
, Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 60,000 –   –
1693 Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 93,000 –   –
1707 Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 (seismic wave)		 30,000 –   –
1731 Beijing
Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 100,000 –   –
October 16, 1737 Kamchatka
Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of 472,300 km?. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  9.3 See Kamchatka earthquakes
Kamchatka earthquakes

The Kamchatka earthquakes were a pair of megathrust earthquakes occurring off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia on October 16, 1737, and on November 4, 1952, with resulting tsunamis following....
 –
June 7, 1755 Northern Persia
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 40,000 –   –
November 18, 1755 Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 0 –   –
February 28, 1780 Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 200,000 – Latitude: 38, longitude: 46.2 –
February 4—5, March 28, 1783 Calabria
Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 35,000 –   –
February 4, 1797 Quito
Quito

San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito, is the Capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha , an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains....
, Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 & Cuzco
Cusco

||}Cusco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province....
, Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 41,000 –   –
February 10, 1797 Sumatra
Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
, East Indies (now Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
)		 300 8.4   –
November 22, 1800, 1:30 p.m. local time San Diego
San Diego, California

San Diego is the second largest city in California and the List of United States cities by population, located along the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast of the United States of the Western United States....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (lat. 34.00, long. 117.18)		 Unknown 6.5 Resulted in varying levels of damage at Mission San Diego de Alcalá
Mission San Diego de Alcalá

Mission San Diego de Alcal?, also known as the site of the first Christian burial in Alta California; San Diego is also generally regarded as the site of the region's first public execution in 1778....
, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, also known as San Luis Rey Mission Church, was founded on June 13, 1798 in what is now the town of Oceanside, California....
, and Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano

Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints November 1, 1776 by Spain Roman Catholic of the Franciscan Order. Named for a 15th century Theology and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 17...
December 8, 1812, 9:45 a.m. local time Wrightwood
Wrightwood, California

Wrightwood is a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County, California. The population was 3,837 at the 2000 census....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (lat. 34.22, long. 117.39)		 42 7.0 Destroyed the "Great Stone Church" at Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano

Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints November 1, 1776 by Spain Roman Catholic of the Franciscan Order. Named for a 15th century Theology and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 17...
December 21, 1812, 11:00 a.m. local time Santa Barbara Channel
Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (lat. 34.12, long. 119.54)		 0 7.0 Destroyed the church at Mission Santa Barbara
Mission Santa Barbara

Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spain Franciscan mission near present day Santa Barbara, California, California....
, caused near-total destruction at Mission La Purísima Concepción
Mission La Purísima Concepción

Mission La Pur?sima Concepci?n, the second mission site to bear the name, was founded on the "Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin" , 1787....
, and considerable damage at Mission Santa Inés
Mission Santa Inés

Mission Santa In?s was founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Est?van Tap?s, who had succeeded Father Ferm?n Lasu?n as President of the Spanish missions in California....
November 25, 1833 Sumatra
Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
, East Indies (now Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
)		  8.7   –
May 8, 1847 Around Zenko-ji
Zenko-ji

is a Buddhism temple, located in Nagano, Nagano, Japan. The temple was built in the 7th century. Nagano City, established in 1897, was originally a town built around the temple....
 Temple, (now in Nagano Prefecture
Nagano Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Nagano, Nagano....
, Chubu region
Chubu region

The is the central region of Honshu, Japan's main island. Chubu has a population estimate of 21,886,324 as of 2008.Chubu, which means "central region", encompasses nine prefectures: Aichi Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Yamanashi...
,) Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 more than 8,300 7.4 2,094 houses lost by fire with quake at Nagano
Nagano, Nagano

, the capital cities of Japan of Nagano Prefecture, is located in the northern part of the prefecture near the confluence of the Chikuma and the Sai rivers, on the main Japanese island of Honshu....
 –
January 23, 1855 21:11 local time Wairarapa
Wairarapa

Wairarapa is a geographical region of New Zealand. It occupies the south-eastern corner of the North Island, east of metropolitan Wellington and south-west of the Hawke's Bay region....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 
see 1855 Wairarapa earthquake
1855 Wairarapa earthquake

The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on January 23rd at about 9 p.m. In Wellington, close to the epicenter, shaking lasted for at least 50 seconds....
 4 ~8.0 Raised sections of Wellington
Wellington

Wellington is the Capital of New Zealand, situated at the southwestern tip of the North Island between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. The Wellington Urban Area is the major population centre of the southern North Island and ranks as New Zealand's third most populous Urban areas of New Zealand with residents....
 coastline by 2 metres		 –
November 11, 1855 Edo
Edo

, literally: Headlands and bays-door, "estuary", ), also Romanization of Japanese as Yedo or Yeddo, is the Geographical renaming of the Capital of Japan Tokyo, and was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868....
 (now Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, Kanto region
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
), Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 more than 4,700 6.9 10,000 house destroyed in Edo
Edo

, literally: Headlands and bays-door, "estuary", ), also Romanization of Japanese as Yedo or Yeddo, is the Geographical renaming of the Capital of Japan Tokyo, and was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868....
 ?????? in Japanese
February 16, 1861 Sumatra
Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
, East Indies (now Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
)		  8.5   –
September 9, 1880, 7:04 local time Zagreb
Zagreb

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April 4, 1905 Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India
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 20,000 7.8 Kangra district HQ Dharamsala
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June 11, 1909 Lambesc
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 46 6,2 Highest magnitude earthquake ever recorded in continental France. 250 wounded. 2,000 buildings damaged 
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