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Here is a summary of the top-five deadliest earthquakes since 1900, according to figures from the U.S. Geological Survey: 1. A magnitude 7.5 quake in Tangshan, China, in 1976 killed 255,000 people. 2.

According to a separate group’s paper published in the same journal, the southern portion of the rupture occurred at an ...

Powerful earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria last week had resulted in more than 41,000 deaths as of Tuesday. It is among most devastating and deadliest disasters seen in recent history.

The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States was a magnitude 9.2 recorded in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 28, 1964. The quake resulted in 139 deaths – nowhere near many of ...

In 2004, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 struck the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that left 227,898 people dead or listed as missing and presumed dead.

Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

Humans have experienced earthquakes for thousands of years. Earthquakes are among the most common geological phenomena, with small tremors occurring hundreds of times per day, medium-size quakes ...