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