Living with Earthquakes - Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design - page 36

Table2.2 Number of Worldwide Damaging Earthquakes from1990 to 2009
(USGS, nd)
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Year Magnitude Total Estimated
5.0-5.9 6.0-6.9 7.0- 7.9 8.0-9.9 deaths
1990 1635 115 12 0 1762 52000
1991 1469 105 11 0 1585 2300
1992 1541 104 23 0 1668 3800
1993 1449 141 15 1 1606 10000
1994 1542 161 13 2 1718 1050
1995 1327 185 22 3 1537 8000
1996 1223 160 21 1 1405 500
1997 1118 125 20 0 1263 3000
1998 979 113 14 2 1108 9000
1999 1106 123 23 0 1252 23000
2000 1345 158 14 1 1518 200
2001 1243 126 15 1 1385 21500
2002 1086 132 13 0 1231 1700
2003 1203 140 14 1 1358 33819
2004 1118 139 13 2 1272 284000
2005 1700 144 10 1 1855 89354
2006 1427 132 10 1 1570 6666
2007 1696 167 14 4 1881 789
2008 1768 168 12 0 1948 88011
2009 1465 125 15 1 1606 1748
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Table 2.3 Historical Earthquakes
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Year and date Location Magnitude Deaths
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464 BC Sparta

226 BC Greece, Rhodes

365 Crete, Knossos 50000

526 20.05 Syria, Antiochia 250000

844 Syria, Damascus 70000

856 Iran, Damghan 200000

856 Greece, Corinth 45000

893 India, Daipur 180000

893 23.03 Iran, Ardabil 150000

1138 09.08 Syria, Aleppo 230000

1268 Turkey, Anatolia 60000

1290 China, Chihli 100000

1349 Italy, Rome

1456 Napoli 80000

1556 21.01 China, Shaanxi 8.0 830000