Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths from 1900
1995 Jan 16 Japan, Kobe 5,502 6.9 Landslide, liquifaction.
34.6 N 135 E
1995 May 27 Sakhalin Island 1,989 7.5
52.6 N 142.8 E
1997 May 10 Northern Iran 1,560 7.5 4,460 injured, 60,000 homeless.
33.9 N 59.7 E
1998 Feb 04 Afghanistan- 2,323 6.1 818 injured, 8,094 houses destroyed, 6,725 livestock killed.
Tajikistan
Border Region
37.1 N 70.1 E
1998 May 30 Afghanistan- 4,000 6.9 At least 4,000 people killed, many thousands injured and homeless in
Tajikistan Badakhshan and Takhar Provinces, Afghanistan.
Border Region
37.1 N 70.1 E
1998 Jul 17 Papua New Guinea, 2,183 7.0 Thousands injured, about 9,500 homeless and about 500 missing as a
2.96 S 141.9 E result of a tsunami with maximum wave heights estimated at 10
meters.
1999 Jan 25 Colombia 1,185 6.2 Over 700 missing and presumed killed, over 4,750 injured and about
4.46 N 75.82 W 250,000 homeless.
1999 Aug 17 Turkey 17,118 7.6 At least 50,000 injured, thousands homeless. Damage estimate at 3 to
40.7 N 30.0 E 6.5 billion USD.
1999 Sep 20 Taiwan 2,297 7.7 Over 8,700 injured, over 600,000 homeless. Damage estimate at 14
23.7 N 121.0 E billion USD.
2001 Jan 26 India 20,023 7.7 166,836 injured, 600,000 homeless.
23.3 N 70.3 E
2002 Mar 25 Hindu Kush Region, 1,000 6.1 4,000 injured, 1,500 houses destroyed in the Nahrin area.
Afghanistan Approximately 20,000 people homeless.
35.9 N 69.2 E
2003 May 21 Northern Algeria 2,266 6.8 10,261 injured, 150,000 homeless, more than 1,243 buildings
36.90 N 3.71 E damaged or destroyed.
2003 Dec 26 Southeastern Iran 26,200 6.6 30,000 injured, 85 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed and
28.99 N 58.31 E infrastructure damaged in the Bam area
2004 Dec 26 Sumatra 283,106 9.0 Deaths from earthquake and tsunami.
3.30 N 95.87 E
2005 Mar 28 Northern Sumatra, 1,313 8.7
Indonesia
2.07 N 97.01 E
Recomputed magnitude
Data compiled from several sources.
Source: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmajr.html