Historically Significant Earthquakes

		Historically Significant Earthquakes
	Year	Location	Magnitude	Deaths (Estimated)
	1201	Upper Egypt or Syria	unknown	1,000,000
	1556	Shaanxi Province, China	unknown	830,000
	1693	Sicily; Naples, Italy	unknown	160,000
	1703	Jeddo, Japan	unknown	200,000
	1755	Lisbon, Portugal; Spain; Morocco; Persia	unknown	100,000
	1797	Ecuador; Peru	unknown	41,000
	1811-1812	New Madrid, MO, U.S. (3 quakes)	unknown	few deaths
	1883	Java	unknown	100,000
	1905	India	8.6	20,000
	1906	San Francisco, CA, U.S.	8.3	700
	1906	Valparaíso, Chile	8.6	20,000
	1920	Gansu Province, China	8.6	200,000
	1923	Tokyo; Yokohama, Japan	8.3	130,000
	1927	Nan Shan, China	8.3	200,000
	1939	Concepción, Chile	8.3	30,000
	1939	Erzincan, Turkey	8.0	30,000
	1949	Tadzhik S.S.R	7.5	120,000
	1960	Puerto Montt, Valdivia, Chile	8.3	6,000
	1964	Prince William Sound, AK, U.S.	9.2	130
	1970	Northern Peru	7.7	66,800
	1976	Guatemala	7.5	23,000
	1976	Tangshan, China	8.0	240,000
	1978	Northeastern Iran	7.7	25,000
	1985	Mexico City	8.1	4,200
	1988	Armenian S.S.R	6.9	30,000
	1990	Northwestern Iran	7.7	60,000
	1993	India	6.5	30,000
	1995	Japan	7.2	6,400
	1995	Russia	7.5	2,100
	1997	Northeastern Iran	7.1	1,560
	1998	Northwestern Afghanistan	6.1	4,000
	1998	Northern Afghanistan	7.1	5,000
	1999	Western Turkey	7.4	15,000
	1999	Taiwan	7.6	2,400