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Deaths from Magnitude 8.0 and Greater
Earthquakes Since 1990
| Date |
Region |
Magnitude |
Number killed |
| June 9, 1994 |
Northern Bolivia |
8.2 |
10 |
| Oct. 4, 1994 |
Kuril Islands |
8.3 |
11 |
| July 30, 1995 |
Near coast of northern Chile |
8.0 |
3 |
| Oct. 9, 1995 |
Near coast of Jalisco, Mexico |
8.0 |
49 |
| Feb. 17, 1996 |
Irian Jaya region, Indonesia |
8.2 |
166 |
| March 25, 1998 |
Balleny Islands region |
8.1 |
0 |
| Nov. 16, 2000 |
New Ireland region, Papua New
Guinea |
8.0 |
2 |
| June 23, 2001 |
Near coast of Peru |
8.4 |
138 |
| Sept. 25, 2003 |
Hokkaido, Japan region |
8.3 |
0 |
| Dec. 23, 2004 |
North of Macquarie Island |
8.1 |
0 |
| Dec. 26, 2004 |
Off west coast of northern
Sumatra |
9.0 |
275,950 |
| March 28, 2005 |
Northern Sumatra, Indonesia |
8.6 |
1,313 |
| Nov. 15, 2006 |
Kuril Islands |
8.3 |
0 |
| Jan. 13, 2007 |
East of the Kuril Islands |
8.1 |
0 |
| April 1, 2007 |
Solomon Islands |
8.1 |
34 |
| Total |
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284,832 |
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