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Fricking Earthquakes
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2. Largest earthquakes by magnitude
Pos.
Date
Location
Magnitude 1
May 22, 1960
Valdivia, Chile (see: 1960 Valdivia earthquake)
9.5 2
December 26, 2004
Off west coast northern Sumatra, Indonesia (see: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake)
9.3 3
October 16, 1737
Kamchatka, Russia (see: Kamchatka earthquakes)
~9.3
March 27, 1964
Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA (see: 1964 Alaska earthquake)
9.2 5
November 4, 1952
Kamchatka, Russia
9.0 6
January 26, 1700
Cascadia subduction zone (see: 1700 Cascadia earthquake) ~9 7
January 31, 1906
Colombia-Ecuador
8.8 8
February 4, 1965
Rat Islands, Alaska, USA
8.7
November 25, 1833
Sumatra, Indonesia 10
November 1, 1755
Lisbon, Portugal (see: 1755 Lisbon earthquake)
~8.7 11
March 28, 2005 * 12
March 9, 1957
Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA (see: 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake)
8.6
December 16, 1920
Ningxia-Gansu, China
August 15, 1950
Assam-Tibet, China 15
December 16, 1575
Valdivia, Chile
8.5
September 12, 2007

3. Deadliest earthquakes on record
Rank
Name
Date
Location
Fatalities
Magnitude
Comments 1
"Shaanxi"
January 23, 1556
Shaanxi, China
830,000
8.0
Death toll skyrocketed in China 2
"Tangshan"
July 27, 1976
Tangshan, China
255,000 (official)
7.5
Estimated death toll as high as 655,000. 3
"Indian Ocean"
December 26, 2004
Off West coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
~230,210 dead and missing
9.0
Deaths from earthquake and tsunami. 4
"Aleppo"
October 11, 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
"Gansu"
December 16, 1920
Ningxia-Gansu, China
200, ,000
7.8 or 8.5
Major fractures, landslides. 7
"Ardabil"
March 23, 893+
Ardabil, Iran
150,000 8
"Great Kantō"
September 1, 1923
Kantō region, Japan
143,000
7.9
Great Tokyo fire. 9
"Ashgabat"
October 6, 1948
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
110,000
7.3 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 [1]

4. General Earthquake Knowledge
An earthquake (also known as a tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden discharge of energy in the Earth's shell that creates massive waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The jiffy amount of an earthquake is usually reported, or the related and mostly out of date Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly unnoticeable and magnitude 7 causing grim damage over large areas. strength of shaking is measured on the customised Mercalli scale.
At the Earth's shell, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacing the land. When a large earthquake epicenter is located off the shore, the ocean floor sometimes suffers adequate dislocation to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also activate landslides and rarely volcanic action.
In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by crack of environmental faults, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments. An earthquake's point of initial crack is called its focus or hypocenter. The expression epicenter refers to the point at ground level straight above the hypocenter.

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