List seismic catastrophes

This article contains a list of Catastrophe S seismic .

-464 : Sparte is destroyed by a earthquake.
518 : Earthquake in Pisidie which destroys the town of Sagalassos.
526 : An earthquake destroys mainly the town of Antioche and made one says 250.000 dead.
557 : Byzance undergoes an earthquake which damages the large church of Holy-Sophie. The dome of the church will crumble the following year.
746 : Galileo: an earthquake destroys in particular the town of Capharnaüm
1302: The Headlight of Pharos, with Alexandria, is destroyed by an earthquake.
1356 : Basle, in Switzerland, as approximately 80 castles in the neighborhoods is destroyed the October 18th.
1408 : Kathmandou, with the Nepal, is devastated.
1505 : Âgrâ and the north of the gangetic flat in India.
1555 : Srinagar in India (60 000 dead)
1556: An earthquake in the China, perhaps worst of all times, makes more 830 000 victims.
1687 : The town of Lima, with the Peru, is practically destroyed by an earthquake.
1703 : Tokyo, with the Japan, (200 000 dead)
1707: Several earthquakes with the Japan including one particularly violent one in October, the seism of Hôei, magnitude 8,6, followed by an eruption in the southern part of the Mount Fuji creating the crater of Hôei.
1716 : Algiers, in Algeria, (20 000 dead)
1727: Tabriz, in Iran, (77 000 dead)
1755: In 6 seconds, 9 000 buildings crumble, Lisbon, with the Portugal, is destroyed (60 000 victims)
1759: Baalbek, with the Lebanon, (20 000 dead)
1767: valley of Kathmandou, in Nepal
1783: Calabria, in Italy, (50 000 dead)
1797: Peru (40 000 dead)
1812: Caracas, with the Venezuela, is destroyed (12 000 dead)
1857: Naples and Salerno, in Italy, (12 000 victims)
1887 February 23rd: The ligure Alps, hearth of underwater origin off the Italian coasts. (600 dead Italian side, ten French side). See the description of the seism on naturaliste.net

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1902 : Martinique, (28 000 dead) * 1905: Kangra, in India, (20 000 dead)
1906: Earthquake of San Francisco, with the the United States. Richter estimates in 1958 its magnitude at 8,3 but of the more recent studies propose lower magnitudes (Ms=7,7 and Mw=7,9). The number of victims in general allowed is 700 due as well to the seism as with the fire which was followed from there. This figure is not certain and can be under estimated of a factor 3 or 4 (source USGS).
1908 : Metz-native, in Italy, magnitude 7,5 (Richter) (84 000 victims)
1909: Lambesc, in Provence (France). See Earthquake of June 11th, 1909. Cf naturaliste.net
1920: Gansu, in China, magnitude 8,5 (Richter) (180 000 victims)
1923: An earthquake destroys the towns of Tōkyō and Yokohama, with the Japan, making 142 807 victims. Magnitude 7,9 (Richter)
1930: Naples, in Italy, magnitude 6,5 (Richter) (2 142 victims)
1935: Quetta, with the Pakistan, magnitude 7,5 (Richter) (60 000 victims)
1939:

Concepción, with the Chile, magnitude 8,3 (Richter) (25 000 victims)
Erzincan, in Turkey, magnitude 8 (Richter) (25 000 victims)

1946 April 1st: With the Aleutian Islands, magnitude 8,6 (Richter) (2000 victims) Tsunami with a wave of 35 m which touches Hawaii, the Japan and the west coast of the E. - U.
1949: Ambato, in Ecuador, magnitude 6,8 (Richter) (3 000 victims)
1954: Orléansville (El Asnam), in Algeria, magnitude 6,7 (Richter) (1 450 victims)
1958 July 10th: in Alaska (bay of Lituya), close to the Canada, a Séisme of magnitude 8,2 caused a gigantic landslide. This weight falling in a very narrow bay created a very localized and spectacular wave. Water arrived until a height of 525 Mr. This phenomenon is technically closer to a Splash (Physical) that of a Tsunami (2 dead).
1960 :

February 29th: Agadir, with the Morocco, magnitude 5,8 (Richter) (15 000 victims)
Chile, magnitude of moment 9,5 (5 700 victims) All the coastal towns of this country located between the 36e and the parallel 44e either were destroyed, or seriously damaged under the effect of the Tsunami and the Séisme. Off the coastal town of Corral, with the Chile, the waves reached, according to the estimates, more than 20 meters in height. The Tsunami made 61 died with Hawaii, 20 with the Filipino and more than one hundred with the Japan. The damage was estimated at 50 million dollars to the Japan, 24 million with Hawaii and several million still along the west coast of the the United States and the Canada. Far from the source, the waves, reduced to light oscillations in certain zones, reached more than 12 meters to the islands Pitcairn, 11 meters with Hilo (Hawaii), and 6 meters in certain places of the Japan.

1962 : Qavzin, in Iran, magnitude 7 (Richter) (12 225 victims)
1963: Skopje, in Yugoslavia, magnitude 6 (Richter) (1 070 victims)
1964: in Alaska, magnitude 9.2, called Good Friday Earthquake, Earthquake of 1964 in Alaska, 131 victims
1968:

Khorassan, in Iran, magnitude 7,4 (Richter) (10 488 victims)
January 15th Belice, in Sicily, Italy. Estimated magnitude: 6,0 (236 victims).

1970 :

Ancash, with the Peru, magnitude 7,8 (Richter) (54 000 victims)
January 5th: China 15.621 died in a seism magnitude 7,8 in Yunnan

1974

May 11th: China 10.000 people Provinces of the Sichuan and the Yunnan magnitude 7,1
Pakistan 5.000 dead.

1975 February 4th China Liaoning 1.300 died in a seism magnitude 7,3
1976:

Guatemala, magnitude 7,5 (Richter) (23 000 victims)
New Guinea, magnitude 7,1 (Richter) (6 000 victims)
the Friuli, North-eastern of Italy, May 6th, the area of Gemona is almost entirely destroyed in a seism magnitude 6,4 on the scale of Richter. Surface touched: 5 725 km ², 137 touched communes, 600 000 people concerned, 1 000 died, approximately 200 orphans, 700 000 homeless people, 5 500 job losses, assembling damage: 1 000 billion liras of the time.
July 28th: Tangshan, in China, magnitude 7,8 (Richter) (242 000 victims)
Turkey, magnitude 7,3 (Richter) (7 000 victims)

1977: Vrancea, in Romania, magnitude 7,2 (Richter) (1 500 victims)
1978: Tabas, in Iran, magnitude 7,7 (Richter) (15 000 victims)
1980:

El Asnam, in Algeria, magnitude 7,2 (Richter) (3 000 victims)
Italy of the South, magnitude 6,8 (Richter) (5 000 victims)

1981: Iran, magnitude 6,7 (Richter) (3 000 victims)
1982: Yemen of North, magnitude 6 (Richter) (2 000 victims)
1983: Turkey, magnitude 6,8 (Richter) (1 330 victims)
1985: Mexico City, magnitude 8,1 (Richter) (30 500 victims)
1987: March 5th, around 10 p.m. 30 local in the North-East of the Ecuador, in the Cordilleras east, magnitude 7 (Richter) (1 000 victims). Many landslides on slopes saturated with water. Destruction of the pipeline and the road linking the north-Amazonian region of Ecuador to the remainder of the country.
1988 : August 21st India border indo-Nepalese, magnitude 6,5, approximately 1.000 dead
1988: December 7th, the Arménie is touched by a seism, magnétude 6,9, more than 30.000 dead.
1989 : San Francisco, with the the United States of America (62 dead)
1990:

June: Iran (40 000 dead)
July: Filipino (2 600 dead)

1991:

: Pakistan and Afghanistan, magnitude 6,8 (Richter) (1 500 dead)
October 20th India - northern of the Uttar Pradesh, magnitude 6,6,768 dead.

1992 : December: Tremor of Flora, with the Filipino (2 000 dead)
1993: September 30th: India Maharashtra, magnitude 6,3 (Richter) (7 601 dead)
1995:

January 17th: Earthquake of Kōbe, magnitude 7,2 (Richter), with the Japan (6 424 died, 43 700 wounded and approximately 250.000 destroyed dwellings)
May: Earthquake of Sakhaline in Russia (1 841 dead)

1997:

on September 26th, with Sitted in Italy seriously damaging the superimposed basilicas dedicated to St François
May: Iran (1 613 dead)
New Guinea-News-Guinea seism causing a tsunami and 3500 dead

1998 :

February: Afghanistan (3 000 dead)
May: Afghanistan (5 000 dead)
July: New Guinea (2 123 dead)

1999:

August 17th: Earthquake of Izmit, in Turkey (20 000 dead)
September: Taiwan (2 500 dead)

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2001 :

January 13rd: El El Salvador (2 700 dead)
January 26th: Gujarat, in India, magnitude 7,9 (Richter) (20 000 dead)

2002 March 25th Afghanistan Baghlan, (Magnitude 5,8) made at least 800 dead
2003:

May 21st: Earthquake of Boumerdes, in Algeria (2 217 dead)
December 28th: Province Iran ienne of Kerman and the district of Bam, seism magnitude 6,3 (Richter), more 28 000 victims and 30 000 wounded (figure at December 30th, 2003)

2004:

February 24th: surrounding Morocco, Al-Hoceima and villages, magnitude 6,5 (564 victims).
October 23rd: Japan, Earthquake of Chuetsu (Niigata), magnitude 6,8 (Richter) (assessment: 31 died and more than 2500 wounded)
December 26th: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Maldives and India, magnitude 9 (Richter) (approximately 230.000 died in the Tidal waves - Tsunami - associated) (see Earthquake of December 26th, 2004)

2005:

March 28th: Indonesia, magnitude between 8,2 and 8,7 (see Earthquake of March 28th, 2005)
October 8th: Earthquake at the border between the India and the Pakistan which caused 73.338 died.

2007 :

July 16th: Japan, magnitude 6,8,11 died and a fire in a nuclear plant. (see Earthquake in Japan of July 2007)
August 15th: Peru, magnitude 8,0. (see Seism of August 15th, 2007 in Peru)

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