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| 发表日期：2008-05-20 发表人：中国地质图书馆 |
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最致命的地震
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Rank |
Name |
Date |
Location |
Fatalities |
Magnitude |
Comments |
1 |
"Shaanxi" |
January 23 , 1556 |
Shaanxi , China |
830,000 |
8 |
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2 |
"Indian Ocean" |
December 26 , 2004 |
Off West coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia |
~300,000 dead and missing |
9.31 |
Deaths from earthquake and tsunami. |
3 |
"Tangshan" |
July 27 , 1976 |
Tangshan , China |
255,000 (official) |
7.5 |
Estimated death toll as high as 655,000. |
4 |
"Aleppo" |
August 9 , 1138 |
Aleppo , Syria |
230,000 |
8.5 |
Death toll disputed as first mention of 230,000 dead was in the 15th century. |
5 |
"Damghan" |
December 22 , 856 |
Damghan , Iran |
200,000 |
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" Gansu " |
December 16 , 1920 |
Ningxia - Gansu , China |
200,000 |
8.6 |
Major fractures, landslides. |
7 |
" Ardabil " |
March 23 , 893 + |
Ardabil , Iran |
150,000 |
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8 |
" Great Kantō " |
September 1 , 1923 |
Kantō , Japan |
143,000 |
7.9 |
Great Tokyo fire. |
9 |
" Ashgabat " |
October 6 , 1948 |
Ashgabat , Turkmenistan |
110,000 |
7.3 |
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10 |
"Kashmir" |
October 8 , 2005 |
India & N.W.F.P , Pakistan |
100,000 (estimated), 80,000 (official) |
7.6 or 7.8 |
3.5 million people homeless, 100,000 feared dead |
Source: USGS [3] |
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