Living with Earthquakes - Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design - page 37

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Year and date Location Magnitude Deaths
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1662 China, Anhwei 300000

1667 Caucasia, Shemakha 80000

1693 11.01 Italy, Sicilia 100000

1700 26.01 Canada, Cascadia 9.0 -

1727 08.11 Iran, Tabriz 77000

1730 30.12 Japan, Hokkaido Island 137000

1731 China, Beijing 100000

1737 11.10 India, Calcutta 300000

1755 01.11 Portugal, Lisbon 8.7 70000

1780 Iran, Tabriz 100000

1783 04. 02 Italy, Calabria 50000

1811 - USA, New Madrid 8.6 -

1856 12.10 Greece, Creta 7.8 -

1883 26.08 Java 100000

1897 India, Gujarat 8.0 1600

One of the best known historical events is the 1755 Lisbon Portugal earthquake
(Fig. 2.4), when a magnitude 8.7 ground motion, produced on the Atlantic Sea,
struck the Iberian Peninsula (Wikipedia, nd). The tsunami was measured at 6m
near Lisbon and 20m at Cadiz in Spain, killing thousands along the shores. Fires
burned for 6 days after the initial shock and half the houses in Lisbon were ruined.

Interplate
subduction
fault

Figure 2.4 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the great tsunami (after NGDC, nd)