The deadliest earthquake in recent history, and the second-most deadly of all time, was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2010. The earthquake had a slightly lower magnitude of 7.0, but was responsible ...

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.

Probably the second deadliest earthquake in recorded history and the worst of the past 100 years also ... With a magnitude of 7, it was not the most powerful quake of the past century, but it was one ...

The deadliest earthquake in history hit China's Shaanxi province ... The Yellow River (Huang He) in China was precariously situated far above most of the land around it in the late 1880s, thanks ...

A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake ... high as some of the top 10 biggest California quakes since the earliest recorded temblor in 1769. More recently, some of the most deadly and destructive ...

A strong earthquake with a magnitude ... near Nepal on Tuesday was one of the country's deadliest in recent years. Earthquakes in China happen most frequently on the Tibetan Plateau or its fringes.

The US Geological Survey lists it as the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history. The city of Damghan ... according to most scholars, and killed at least 70,000 people.

By John Yoon The deadly earthquake on Monday in Turkey, which was felt in Syria, Lebanon and Israel, was as strong as one in 1939, the most powerful one on record in Turkey. At magnitude 7.8 ...

Obviously, it is the deadliest earthquakes in recent history that remain etched in the ... to this day, the most devastating earthquake for which data is available. The ten-minute tremors helped ...

Probably the second deadliest earthquake in recorded history and the worst of the past ... With a magnitude of 7, it was not the most powerful quake of the past century, but it was one of the ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 that killed more than 50 people in western China near Nepal on Tuesday was one of the country's deadliest ...