Earthquake Time line

By DamekSzustak

  • 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake

    1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake
    The 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska on April 1. The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI. It resulted in 165–173 casualties and over $26 million in damage.

  • 1960 Chile earthquake

    The event was named after the city most affected by the quake, Valdivia. The Valdivia earthquake left two million people homeless, injured at least 3,000, and killed approximately 1,655.

  • 1964 Alaska Earthquake

    magnitude 9.2 (moment magnitude) occurred in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska. The epicenter was about 10 km east of the mouth of College Fiord, approximately 90 km west of Valdez and 120 km east of Anchorage.

  • 1993 Japan Earthquake

    Okushiri earthquake occurred at 13:17:12 UTC on 12 July 1993 in the Sea of Japan near the island of Hokkaido. ... The island of Okushiri was hardest hit, with 165 casualties from the earthquake, the tsunami and a large landslide.

  • 1993 New guinea Earthquake

    struck the island of Papua New Guinea at 5:49 p.m. local time. ... The earthquake and tsunami that struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, struck along its northern coast. The height of the orange bars are relative to wave height and the red dot is the epicenter.

  • 2004 sumatra earthquake

    Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake) occurred at 07:58:53 in local time (UTC+7) on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

  • 2009 Samoa Earthquake

    On September 29, 2009, two large earthquakes struck midway between Samoa and American Samoa, a U.S. territory. The earthquakes generated tsunami waves of up to 22 meters (72 feet) that engulfed the shores, killing at least 192 people—149 in Samoa, 34 in American Samoa, and 9 in Niuatoputapu, Tonga.

  • 2010 Chile Earthquake

    2010 Chile Earthquake
    Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time, having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes. About 700 deaths and many more causalities.

  • 2010 Chile Earthquake

    The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time, having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes.

  • 2011 Japan earthquake

    earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.