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Spain 🇪🇸Recent quakes & seismic zones BarcelonaIs it at risk? Tenerife & Canary Is.Volcanic seismicity AlicanteIs it a seismic zone? MurciaSpain's highest-risk region Greece 🇬🇷Europe's most seismic country Italy 🇮🇹Faults, quakes & volcanoes Turkey 🇹🇷Anatolian faults explained Monterrey 🇲🇽Low seismic risk Guadalajara 🇲🇽Moderate seismic risk Querétaro 🇲🇽Low seismic risk Peru 🇵🇪Extremely seismic region Colombia 🇨🇴Triple-plate boundary Ecuador 🇪🇨High seismic hazard Chile 🇨🇱World's most seismic country Mexico 🇲🇽1985 M8.0 & SASMEX Nepal 🇳🇵2015 Gorkha quake, M7.8 Guatemala 🇬🇹1976 Motagua Fault quake, M7.5 Costa Rica 🇨🇷The Nicoya seismic gap El Salvador 🇸🇻2001 twin earthquakes Panama 🇵🇦1991 Limón & 1882 tsunami quakes Nicaragua 🇳🇮1972 Managua earthquake, M6.3 Bolivia 🇧🇴Deep Andean subduction quakes Venezuela 🇻🇪The Boconó Fault & 1812 Caracas quake Honduras 🇭🇳2009 Roatán earthquake, M7.3 Dominican Republic 🇩🇴1946 Samaná tsunami quake Morocco 🇲🇦2023 Al Haouz & 1960 Agadir quakes

Famous earthquakes in history

Valdivia 1960M9.5 — the strongest ever Tōhoku 2011M9.1 — Japan & Fukushima Sumatra 2004M9.1 — deadliest tsunami ever Kamchatka 1952M9.0 — Russia's strongest Ecuador–Colombia 1906M8.8 — first mega-tsunami studied Tangshan 1976M7.6 — deadliest ever? Mexico City 1985M8.0 — Sept 19 Turkey–Syria 2023M7.8 Messina 1908M7.1 — deadliest in Europe Kashmir 2005M7.6 — Pakistan San Francisco 1906M7.9 — founded modern seismology Kanto 1923M7.9 — Tokyo firestorms Sichuan 2008M7.9 — China Assam–Tibet 1950M8.6 — largest continental quake Shaanxi 1556~M8.0 — deadliest ever, ~830,000 dead Kobe 1995M6.9 — Japan's costliest disaster Bam 2003M6.6 — Iran's ancient citadel destroyed Ancash 1970M7.9 — Peru's deadliest disaster İzmit 1999M7.6 — Turkey, near Istanbul Guatemala 1976M7.5 — Motagua Fault disaster Loma Prieta 1989M6.9 — the World Series quake Armenia (Spitak) 1988M6.8 — opened the USSR to aid Northridge 1994M6.7 — LA's costliest disaster Morocco 2023M6.8 — Al Haouz, deadliest since 1960 Agadir 1960M5.9 — Morocco's deadliest disaster Pisco 2007M8.0 — Peru's coast devastated Managua 1972M6.3 — Nicaragua's capital destroyed L'Aquila 2009M6.3 — Italy's deadliest in decades Palu 2018M7.5 — tsunami & liquefaction disaster Gujarat 2001M7.7 — India's Republic Day quake Chi-Chi 1999M7.6 — Taiwan's 921 disaster Biggest ever →The full ranking
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