March 2011
A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes off the northeast coast of Japan, sending a tsunami across the Pacific and killing a still-undetermined number of people.<br> <em>Caption: Vehicles are crushed by a collapsed wall at a carpark in Mito city, in Ibaraki prefecture on March 11, 2011, after a massive earthquake rocked Japan. (JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
October 2011
A 7.1 magnitud earthquake strikes eastern Turkey near the city of Van. More than 604 people are kiled, more than 4,100 injured. <br> <em>Caption: Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Van, Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Bertan Ayduk)</em>
October 2010
A volcanic eruption and a tsunami kill more than 500 people in Indonesia.<br> <em>Caption: Misbah, sits with her two year old daughter Sylvia in her collapsed house at Tumalei village in the Metawai islands, West Sumatra, on October 31, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
February 2010
A 8.8 magnitude quake shakes Chile, generating a tsunami and killing 524 people.<br> <em>Caption: A man removes earthquake debris from his home near a ship sitting in the middle of the road in Talcahuano, Chile, on Sunday, March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)</em>
September 2009
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake unleashes tsunamis of up to 40 feet (12 meters) and killing 194 people in the South Pacific, including 34 in American Samoa.<br> <em>Caption: This photo taken on September 29, 2009, after an 8.0-magnitude quake and tsunami struck in the early morning offshore shows a damaged building and truck in Pago Pago, on American Samoa. (JOHN NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
September 2007
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rattles Sumatra Island, triggering regional tsunami alerts and damaging scores of buildings.<br> <em>Caption: Vehicles pass a damaged road littered with cracks in Ketahun, on 16 September, 2007, four days after the first massive temblor rocked the region. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
September 2007
An earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.4 near Sumatra triggers a wave in the coastal city of Padang. The tremor kills at least 25 people and injures around 50. <br> <em>Caption: A man rides his bicycle past a collapsed house in Lubuk Pinang, Muko Muko, on 16 September, 2007. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
April 2007
At least 28 people in the Solomon Islands die in a tsunami and earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.1.<br> <em>Caption: Children walk through their destroyed homes as aid starts arriving in Gizo after it was hit by a tsunami earlier in the week, on 07 April, 2007. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
July 2006
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake triggers a tsunami off Java Island's southern coast, killing at least 600 people.<br> <em>Caption: A hotel owner sits next to rubbles in Pangandaran, 19 July, 2006, after a earthquake-triggered tsunami hit south coast of Java island, on 17 July. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
March 2005
A magnitude 8.6 quake in northern Sumatra kills about 1,300 people.<br> <em>Caption: People mourn the loss of members of their family on March 31, 2005, in Gunungsitoli on the Island of Nias, Indonesia, after a massive earthquake struck on March 28. (Ian Waldie/Getty Images)</em>
December 2004
An Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, kills 230,000 in a dozen countries.<br> <em>Caption: Hands stretch out for bags food as it is given out at a refugee camp for people who have become homeless after a massive tsunami wave swept across coastal Sri Lanka on December 31, 2004, in Tangalle, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)</em>
December 2003
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Iranian city of Ban in the southeastern Kerman province, killing more than 26,271 people and injuring 30,000. <br> <em><br>An elderly Iranian woman gestures in front of the ruins of the quake-devastated Iranian city of Bam. (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)</em>
August 1976
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake hits near the islands of Mindanao and Sulu in the Philippines, generating a tsunami and leaving at least 5,000 dead.<br> <em>Caption: Aerial views of damaged buildings in Cotobato City, Philippines, in August 1976. (AP Photo)</em>
May 1960
A magnitude 9.5 earthquake in southern Chile and ensuing tsunami kill at least 1,716 people.<br> <em>Caption: A soldier stands guard nearrubble strewn around an electrical shop which was shattered by an earthquake in Concepcion, Chile, on May 24, 1960. (AP Photo)</em>
March 1964
A 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the resulting tsunami kill 131 people. <br> <em>Caption: A photographer looks over wreckage as smoke rises in the background from burning oil storage tanks at Valdez, Alaska, on March 29, 1964. (AP Photo)</em>
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/chile-earthquake-61-magnitude_n_2174106.html
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