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Table 1. The Most Destructive Earthquakes on Earth in 1999–2015 (EM-DAT, http://www.emdat.be)
Date and country Magnitude, Depth of Number of Number of sufferers
Mw focus, km deaths, people
17 August 1999, Turkey 7.6 15 17,127 1,358,953
21 May 2003, Algeria 6.8 12 2266 10,261
26 December 2003, Iran 6.6 15 26,796 267,628
26 December 2004, Indonesia 9.0 30 230,000 532,898
12 May 2008, China 7.9 10 87,476 45,610,000
6 April 2009, Italy 6.3 10 295 56,000
11 March 2011, Japan 9.1 29 15,897 237,552
25 April 2015, Nepal 7.8 8.28831 5,639,722

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Citation: Osipov V. I., N. A. Rumyantseva, O. N. Eremina (2019), Living with risk of natural disasters, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 19, ES6011, doi:10.2205/2019ES000673.
 

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