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Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2008

Date	Region	Magnitude	Number killed
Jan. 9	Northern Algeria	4.8	1
Jan. 22	Nias region, Indonesia	6.2	1
Feb. 3	Lac Kivu region, Dem. Rep. of the Congo	5.9	44
Feb. 6	West Bengal, India	4.3	1
Feb. 14	Lac Kivu region, Dem. Rep. of the Congo	5.4	1
Feb. 20	Indonesia	7.5	3
May 12	China	7.9	67,180

Source: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology:
Earthquake Events 2008: IRIS

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.

See also:

Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2008 - Summary of the largest earthquakes in 2008.
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