Attenuation of Intensity for the Zemmouri Earthquake of 21 May 2003 (Mw 6.8): Insights for the Seismic Hazard and Historical Earthquake Sources in Northern Algeria - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 317

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No Earthquake Damage and casualties Intensity References

15 Berhoum

12.2.1946

277 dead, 118 injured and 7,500
homeless; destruction or heavy damage
to 1,000 housing units

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

16 Orleansville

9.9.1954

1,409 dead, 5,000 injured and 50,000
homeless; destruction of more than
33,000 buildings

X MSK Benouar 1994

17 Beni Rached

5.6.1955

No casualties but destruction of colonial
and traditional houses

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

18 Bou Medfaa

7.11.1959

2 injured and at least 500 homeless;
destruction or heavy damage to 80% of
the houses, farms and buildings

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

19 Melouza

21.2.1960

47 dead, 129 injured and 4,900 homeless;
destruction of about 600 housing units

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

20 Bir Hadada

4.9.1963

1 dead and 100 injured; collapse of

more than 50% of the traditional
housing units of the city

∼ VIII-IX EMS Harbi 2006

21 M'sila

1.1.1965

5 dead, 25 injured and 25,000 homeless;
destruction or serious damage to 3,145
housing units

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

22 Mansourah

24.11.1973

4 dead, 43 injured, 14,922 homeless;
Serious damage and destruction of ∼
2,000 housing units

VIII-IX EMS Harbi 2006

23 Ouled Aissa

31.1.1979

15 dwellings seriously damaged without
casualties

VII-VIII EMS Harbi 2006

24 El Asnam

10.10.1980

3,000 dead, 8,500 injured and 400,000
homeless, destruction or serious
damage to 60,000 housing units

X MSK Benouar 1994

25 Ain Fekroun

5.10.1984

123 traditional houses seriously damaged
with 13 shattered

VII-VIII EMS Harbi 2006

26 Constantine

27.10.1985

10 dead, 300 injured; severe damage or
destruction to old houses and farms

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

27 Chenoua

29.10.1989

35 dead, more than 700 injured and
50,000 homeless; severe damage or
destruction to 8,000 housing units and
500 public buildings

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

28 Mascara

18.8.1994

171 dead, 654 injured, 12,500 homeless;
serious damage or destruction to 2,000
housing units, farms and about 10
schools

VIII MSK Benouar 1994

29 Ain

Temouchent
1999

25 dead, 25,000 homeless; Serious
damage to housing units and public
buildings

VII MSK Yelles et al. 2004

30 Zemmouri

21.5.2003

2,278 dead, 1,1450 injured and 250,000
homeless; destruction or serious
damage to 6,000 buildings and 20,800
housing units

X MSK Harbi et al. 2007b