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Major Earthquakes in History
With PM-Summit-Quake, Bjt
By The Associated Press
    Here is a list of major earthquakes of the 20th century. The
location is followed by the Richter scale magnitude and the number of
dead.
    Sept. 19, 1985, Mexico, 8.1, 9,500.
    Oct. 30, 1983, Turkey, 7.1, 1,300.
    Dec. 13, 1982, North Yemen, 6.0, 2,800.
    Nov. 23, 1980, Italy, 7.2, 4,800.
    Oct. 10, 1980, Algeria, 7.3, 4,500.
    Dec. 12, 1979, Colombia and Ecuador, 7.9, 800.
    Sept. 16, 1978, Iran, 7.7, 25,000.
    March 4, 1977, Romania, 7.5, 1,541.
    Nov. 24, 1976, Eastern Turkey, 7.9, 4,000.
    Aug. 17, 1976, Philippines, 7.8, 8,000.
    July 28, 1976, Tangshan, China, 7.8 to 8.2, official figure:
242,000. unofficial estimates: as many as 800,000.
    May 6, 1976, Italy, 6.5, 946.
    Feb. 4, 1976, Guatemala, 7.5, 22,778.
    Sept. 6, 1975, Turkey, 6.8, 2,312.
    Dec. 28, 1974, Pakistan, 6.3, 5,200.
    Dec. 23, 1972, Nicaragua, 6.2, 5,000.
    April 10, 1972, Iran, 6.9, 5,057.
    May 31, 1970, Peru, 7.7, 66,794.
    March 28, 1970, Turkey, 7.4, 1,086.
    Aug. 31, 1968, Iran, 7.4, 12,000.
    Aug. 19, 1966, Turkey, 6.9, 2,520.
    July 26, 1963, Yugoslavia, 6.0, 1,100.
    Sept. 1, 1962, Iran, 7.1, 12,230.
    May 21-30, 1960, Chile, 8.3, 5,000.
    Feb. 29, 1960, Morocco, 5.8, 12,000.
    Dec. 13, 1957, Iran, 7.1, 2,000.
    July 2, 1957, Iran, 7.4, 2,500.
    June 10-17, 1956, Afghanistan, 7.7, 2,000.
    March 18, 1953, Turkey, 7.2, 1,200.
    Aug. 15, 1950, India, 8.7, 1,530.
    Aug. 5, 1949, Ecuador, 6.8, 6,000.
    June 28, 1948, Japan, 7.3, 5,131.
    Dec. 21, 1946, Japan, 8.4, 2,000.
    Dec. 26, 1939, Turkey, 7.9, 30,000.
    Jan. 24, 1939, Chile, 8.3, 28,000.
    May 31, 1935, India, 7.5, 30,000
    Jan. 15, 1934, India, 8.4, 10,700.
    March 2, 1933, Japan, 8.9, 2,990.
    Dec. 26, 1932, China, 7.6, 70,000.
    May 22, 1927, China, 8.3, 200,000.
    Sept. 1, 1923, Tokyo, Japan, 8.3, 100,000.
    Dec. 16, 1920, China, 8.6, 100,000.
    Jan. 13, 1915, Italy, 7.5, 29,980.
    Dec. 28, 1908, Italy, 7.5, 83,000.
    Aug. 16, 1906, Chile, 8.6, 20,000.
    April 18-19, 1906, San Francisco, 8.3, 452.
    
 
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