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Major Earthquakes around the World, 2006

Date	Location	Magnitude¹
Jan. 2	East of the South Sandwich Islands	7.4
Jan. 2	Fiji Region	7.2
Jan. 27	Banda Sea	7.6
Feb. 22	Mozambique	7.0
April 20	Koryakia, Russia	7.6
May 3	Tonga	7.9
May 16	Kermadec Islands Region	7.4
July 17	South of Java, Indonesia	7.7
Aug. 20	Scotia Sea, south of S. America	7.0
Nov. 15	Kuril Islands	8.3
Dec. 26	Taiwan region	7.1

NOTE: A major earthquake is defined here as having a magnitude of 7.0 or more.

1. Unless otherwise indicated, magnitudes listed are moment magnitudes, the newest, most uniformly applicable magnitude scale.

Source: National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey. Web: neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2006/2006_stats.html

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