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| Year |
Location |
Magnitude |
Comment |
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| 1348 |
Austria - northern Italy
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660th Anniversary
5,000 deaths. Intensity X.
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| 1939 |
Chillan, Chile
|
7.8 |
28,000 deaths.
One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
Extreme damage in the Cauquenes-Chillan area. It was felt from Arica to Puerto Aisen.
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| 1972 |
Taiwan
|
7.5 |
A college student was killed by a rock falling from
a cliff in eastern Taiwan.
The tremors, about an hour and a half apart, broke
windows in Tiaitung and broke the seismograph there.
Five houses were destroyed and some damage to highways
was reported. The earlier and larger shock was felt
in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands, in Hong Kong 470 miles
west of the epicenter, and Luzon, Philippine Islands,
over 300 miles south. The earthquakes were located
approximately 75 miles offshore, which explains the relatively
light damage.
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|
| 1999 |
Colombia
|
6.1 |
At least
1,185 people killed, over 700 missing and presumed killed,
over 4,750 injured and about 250,000 homeless. The most
affected city was Armenia where 907 people were killed and
about 60 percent of the buildings were destroyed, including
the police and fire stations. About 60 percent of the
buildings were destroyed at Calarca and about 50 percent of
the houses were destroyed at Pereira. Landslides blocked
several roads including the Manizales-Bogota road. Damage
occurred in Caldas, Huila, Quindio, Risaralda, Tolima and
Valle del Cauca Departments.
From
Significant Earthquakes of the World 1999.
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U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey