At a magnitude of 7.9, the violent earthquake that shook China's Sichuan province was as powerful as the most destructive quake recorded last century: in Tangshan, China, in 1976, when 240,000 were...
More than 14,000 people were killed in this massive earthquake and many more were left homeless since many buildings were uninhabitable. Thousands of families in the region have been living in tent...
The Great Kobe Quake as it is called, killed 5,530 people, injured another 37,000. There was extensive damage in the Kobe area and on the island of Awajishima with more than 200,000 buildings damag...
In addition to killing 60 people, this early morning quake injured more than 7,000 people and left 20,000 homeless. More than 40,000 buildings were damaged in Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, and San ...
About 19,000 people were injured and 500,000 left homeless in the Leninakan-Spitak-Kirovakan area of northern Armenia, USSR. More than 20 towns and 342 villages were affected, 58 of them destroyed ...
Felt by almost 20 million people, this devastating earthquake injured nearly 30,000 people and left more than 100,000 people homeless. Severe damage was caused in parts of Mexico City, as well as s...
This is probably the greatest death toll from an earthquake in the last four centuries, and the second greatest in recorded history. An additional 800,000 people were reported injured. Damage exten...
Although smaller in size seismically than other historical earthquakes, the 1960 Agadir quake still caused tremendous damage. Occuring directly under the town of Agadir, Morocco, it reduced the tow...
The 1923 earthquake was one of Japan's worst natural disasters. The ground shook for five minutes as the Sagami Bay Fault ruptured. Thousands of buildings collapsed and a tsunami measuring 36 feet ...
The Kansu region had been earthquake-free for 280 years before this disastrous quake struck. A great deal of the damage was due largely to poor soil conditions throughout the province with intense ...
Most of San Francisco lay in ruins after movement along 270 miles (430 kilometers) of California's San Andreas fault generated an 8.3 earthquake. However, it was the post-quake fire, which swept th...
Most of Lisbon's 250,000 inhabitants were at church for All Saints' Day when the first quake struck at 9:40 a.m. on November 1, 1755. It was followed by an even more powerful tremor, which sent bui...
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