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Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2010

The following table gives the number of people who died in earthquakes in 2010. 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
Jan. 12	Haiti	7.0	222,570
Feb. 27	Maule region, Chile	8.8	521
March 8	Turkey	6.1	57
April 14	Qinghai, China	6.9	2,698
Oct. 25	Sumatra, Indonesia	7.7	435

Source: various

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