Major Earthquakes throughout History

 1906: USA (California, San Francisco). Richter scale: 7.8, Deaths: 3,000, Cost ($m): 524

 1908: Italy (Messina). Richter scale: 7.5, Deaths: 25,926, Cost: ($m) 116

 1923: Japan (Tokyo-Yokohama). Richter scale: 8.3, Deaths: 142,800, Cost ($m): 2,800

1936: Pakistan (Quetta). Richter scale: 7.5, Deaths: 35,000, Cost ($m): 25

 1939: Chile (Concepcion). Richter scale: 8.3, Deaths: 28,000, Cost ($m): 100

 1939: Turkey (Erzincan). Richter scale: 8.0, Deaths: 36,740, Cost ($m): 20

 1960: Morocco (Agadir). Richter scale: 5.9, Deaths: 12,000, Cost ($m): 120

 1970: Peru (Chimbote). Richter scale: 7.7, Deaths: 67,000, Cost ($m): 550

 1976: China (Tangshan). Richter scale: 8.0, Deaths: 290,000, Cost ($m): 5,600

1976: Guatemala (Guatemala City). Richter scale: 7.5, Deaths: 22,084, Cost ($m): 1,100

 1985: Mexico (Mexico City). Richter scale: 8.1, Deaths: 10,000, Cost ($m): 4,000

 1988: Armenia (Spitak). Richter scale: 6.9, Deaths: 25,000 Cost ($m): 14,000

1989: USA (California, San Francisco). Richter Scale: 7.0, Deaths: 68, Cost ($m): 6,000

 July 1990, Baguio City, Philippines. Deaths about 5000.

 1995: Japan (Kobe). Richter scale: 7.2, Deaths: 6348, Cost ($m): 200,000

 1999: Turkey (Kocaeli). Richter scale: 7.4, Deaths: 19,118, Cost ($m): 20,000

 2004: Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Richter scale: 9.2, Deaths: 230,000

 2008: Sichuan Province. Richter scale: 8.0, Deaths: 68,000, Cost ($m): 20,000

 2010: Chile (Maule Region). Richter scale: 8.8, Deaths: 486

2011: Japan. Richter scale: 8.9.

Read More

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 Pictures

Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake was a 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011 and and followed by another three on the same day in excess of 6.0 magnitude.

 

The earthquake triggered tsunami warnings and evacuations along Japan's Pacific coast and in at least 20 countries, including the entire Pacific coast of North America and South America. The earthquake created extremely destructive tsunami waves of up to 10 meters (33 ft) that struck Japan minutes after the quake, with smaller waves after several hours in many other countries. In Japan, the waves are reported to have travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland.

Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.4 million without water. Many electrical generators were taken down and three reactors believed to have partially melted down have experienced a chemical explosion extensively damaging their buildings, and the integrity of the inner core-containment vessel of one compromised and some dangerously radioactive release from the plant has occurred.

Read More