Various regions of the world have experienced in the past two decades devastating earthquakes Some left hundreds of thousands dead. After the catastrophe that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Monday, we monitored some devastating earthquakes, led by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Here is a list of some of the most severe earthquakes of the past 20 years:
– January 13, 2010 – Haiti – A magnitude 7 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti It caused the death of relatives 316 thousand people. The United Nations estimated that 80,000 buildings were destroyed in the capital and surrounding areas.
– December 26, 2004 – Asia – The latest earthquake with a magnitude of 9.15 off Sumatra Island Terrible tsunami waves spread to Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and many other countries in the region, causing the destruction of villages and tourist islands and killing nearly 230 thousand dead or missing.
– May 12, 2008 – China – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, killing about 87600 people.
– October 8, 2005 – Pakistan – A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck northeast of Islamabad, leaving at least 73 thousand dead. The earthquake also struck the Indian part of Kashmir, killing 1,244 people.
– December 26, 2003 – Iran – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit the southeast of the Kerman region, flattening the city of Bam, killing one person 31 thousand people.
– March 11, 2011 – Japan – A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan, killing nearly 15,690 people and wounding 5,700 others. The quake also resulted in the largest global nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
– 25 April 2015 – Nepal – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked impoverished Nepal, causing deaths Nine thousand people It paralyzed the lives of more than eight million people.
– September 28, 2018 – Indonesia – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi, triggering a 1.5-meter-high tsunami and killing more than 4300 people.
– 14 August 2021 – Haiti – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing more than 2200 people and destroying 13,000 homes.
– September 24, 2013 – Pakistan – Two earthquakes, measuring 7.7 and 6.8, struck the Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 825 people.
– 16 April 2016 – Ecuador – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador, causing death 650 people On the Pacific coast of the country.
– August 3, 2014 – China – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China, killing at least 600 people In a remote area of Yunnan Province.
– October 23, 2011 – Turkey – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey, killing more than 600 person.
– February 27, 2010 – Chile – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Chile, killing more than 500 people destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and destroying highways and bridges.
– November 12, 2017 – Iran – A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Kermanshah region in the east of the country, killing more than 400 person. At least six people were killed in neighboring Iraq.
– October 26, 2015 – Afghanistan – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Afghanistan, killing a relative 400 Dead in the country in addition to northern Pakistan.
– September 19, 2017 – Mexico – A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico, killing at least 369 people There is more destruction in the capital than any earthquake since a quake in 1985 killed thousands.
– August 24, 2016 – Italy – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous locality in eastern Rome, central Italy, resulting in death 300 the person.
– August 11, 2012 – Iran Two severe earthquakes struck, the first measuring 6.4 and the second measuring 6.3, killing at least 300 A person near the city of Tabriz in the northwest of the country.
– February 22, 2011 – New Zealand – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, killing at least 180 people.
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