Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2001

Date	Region	Magnitude	Number killed¹
Jan. 13	El Salvador	7.7	852
Jan. 26	Gujarat, India	7.7	20,023
Feb. 13	El Salvador	6.6	315
Feb. 17	El Salvador	4.1	1
Feb. 23	Sichuan, China	5.6	3
March 24	W. Honshu, Japan	6.8	2
April 19	Yunnan, China	5.6	2
May 8	El Salvador	5.4	1
May 23	Sichuan, China	5.3	2
June 1	Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan	5.0	4
June 21	Germany	4.2	1
June 23	Near coast of Peru	8.4	139
July 7	Near coast of Peru	7.6	1
July 7	Northern Italy	4.7	4
July 24	Northern Chile	6.3	1
Aug. 9	Central Peru	5.5	4
Oct. 27	Yunnan, China	5.7	1
Dec. 4	Southern Peru	5.8	2
Total			21,358

1. Includes “missing and presumed dead.”

Source: National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey.

Major Earthquakes around the World, 2001

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