The deadliest earthquake in Turkey's history, and the third-most deadly of all time, occurred in 115 in the city of Antakya. Antakya, historically known as Antioch, ...

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 Shaanxi earthquake—also known as the Hua County earthquake—is the deadliest quake to date, resulting in approximately 830,000 deaths. On the morning of Jan. 23, 1556, it destroyed a 520 ...

The world's deadliest natural disasters span more than 2,500 years of human history and include earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

09/09/2023 September 9, 2023. The earthquake in Morocco is already one of the worst natural disasters in the past 100 years. DW looks at some of the deadliest quakes on record.

: The Jan. 17, 1994 earthquake, one of the most destructive and deadly in California history, killed 60 people and brought down buildings across Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange and San Bernardino ...

History of deadly earthquakes in China after almost 100 killed in Tibet quake - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 that killed more than 50 people in western China near Nepal was one of ...

The earthquake struck the city of Chillán particularly hard, leaving much of it in ruins and leading to one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country’s history.

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, ...