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The most deadly earthquakes worldwide in the past century PARIS (AFP) Dec 26, 2004 More than 10,000 people were confirmed dead and countless more injured or missing on Sunday after tidal waves unleashed by a massive earthquake off Indonesia slammed across the Indian Ocean region.
BAM, Iran: At least 31,884 people die and 18,000 are injured. Magnitude 6.7
Northern Algeria: Nearly 2,300 dead and 10,000 injured near Algiers. Magnitude 6.8
Northern Afghanistan: Up to 4,800 dead. Magnitude 6.0
Gujarat, western India: More than 20,000 dead and 160,000 injured. Magnitude 7.9
Northwestern Turkey: 15,613 dead and nearly 25,000 injured. Magnitude 7.4
Northeastern Afghanistan: Almost 5,000 dead. Magnitude 7.1
Northeastern Afghanistan: Between 2,300 and 4,000 dead. Magnitude 6.4
Eastern Iran: 1,613 dead and 3,712 injured. Magnitude 7.1
Kobe-Osaka region of central Japan: 6,400 dead. Magnitude 7.2
Maharashtra, western India: 7,601 dead. Magnitude 6.4
Northwestern Iran: More than 40,000 killed and 100,000 injured. Magnitude
Spitak, Soviet Armenia: 25,000 dead. Magnitude 7.0
Ecuador/Colombia border: Some 5,000 deaths reported. Magnitude 6.9
Mexico City, Mexico: At least 10,000 killed. Magnitude 8.1
Tabass, Iran: 25,000 killed. Magnitude 7.2
Tangshan city in Hebei province, China: 242,000 dead and 164,000 injured. Magnitude 7.8
Guatemala: 26,000 dead, 74,000 injured. Magnitude 7.5
Sichuan, China: Estimates of between 10,000 and 20,000 dead. Magnitude 7.1
Managua, Nicaragua: About 10,000 killed. Magnitude 6.3
Mount Huascaran, Peru: Earthquake and subsequent avalanche killed 66,800. Magnitude 7.5
Yunnan, China: Officially, more than 15,600 dead. Magnitude 7.3
Northeast Iran: Between 10,000 and 15,000 dead. Magnitude 7.3
Qazvin, Iran: 12,000 dead. Magnitude 6.9
Chile: Offshore earthquake provoked tidal wave that killed between 2,000 and 5,700 people. Magnitude 8.5
Agadir, Morocco: Between 12,000 and 13,000 people killed, and 25,000 reported injured. Magnitude 6.7
San Juan, Argentina: Up to 8,000 killed. Magnitude 7.2
Illapel, Chile: At least 28,000 killed. Magnitude 7.8
Erzincan, Turkey: 35-40,000 killed. Magnitude 8.0
Quetta, India (now Pakistan). More than 50,000 killed. Magnitude 7.6
Bihar, India: At least 10,700 killed. Other reports put the toll far higher. Magnitude 8.3
Gansu province, China: Up to 80,000 may have died. Magnitude 8.0
Nanshan province, China: Up to 200,000 people may have been killed. Magnitude 8.0
Yokohama, Japan: More than 140,000 people died in earthquake and subsequent fire.
Ningxia, China: About 235,000 reported killed. Magnitude 8.5
Avezzano, Italy: Nearly 30,000 reported killed.
Messina, Italy: Earthquake and tidal wave killed at least 83,000. Some reports put the figure much higher. Magnitude 7.5
Valparaiso, Chile: Up to 20,000 killed. Other reports put the total considerably lower. Magnitude 8.1
Kangra, India: An estimated 20,000 dead. Magnitude 7.5 All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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