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Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2009

The following table gives the number of people who died in earthquakes in 2009. The magnitude of each earthquake is also shown. Magnitudes listed are moment magnitudes, the newest, most uniformly applicable magnitude scale.

Date	Region	Magnitude	Number killed
April 6	Central Italy	6.3	287
May 28	Offshore Honduras	7.3	7
Sept. 2	Java, Indonesia	7.0	72
Sept. 29	Samoa Islands Region	8.0	110
Sept. 30	Southern Sumatra, Indonesia	7.6	1100

Source: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology:
Earthquake Events 2009: IRIS

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