7.8-magnitude earthquake hits Ecuador
A magnitude-7.8 convulsion befuddled Ecuador's axial bank on Saturday. The country's carnality admiral alleged it the arch to hit the country in decades. Here is a account of some of the world's arch earthquakes back 1900: |
| The world's strongest earthquakes since 1900 |
March 28, 1964: A magnitude-9.2 convulse in Prince William Sound, Alaska, kills 131 people, including 128 from a tsunami.
Dec. 26, 2004: A magnitude-9.1 convulse in Indonesia triggers an Indian Ocean tsunami, killing 230,000 humans in a dozen countries.
March 11, 2011: A magnitude-9.0 convulse off the northeast bank of Japan triggers a tsunami, killing added than 18,000 people.
Nov. 4, 1952: A magnitude-9.0 convulse in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East causes accident but no appear deaths admitting ambience off 9.1-meter (30-foot) after-effects in Hawaii.
Feb. 27, 2010: A magnitude-8.8 convulse all-overs Chile, breeding a tsunami and killing 524 people.
Jan. 31, 1906: A magnitude-8.8 convulse off the bank of Ecuador generates a tsunami that kills at atomic 500 people.
Feb. 4, 1965: A magnitude-8.7 convulse strikes Alaska's Rat Islands, causing an 11-meter (35-foot) -high tsunami.
March 28, 2005: A magnitude-8.6 convulse in arctic Sumatra in Indonesia kills about 1,300 people.
Aug. 15, 1950: A magnitude-8.6 convulsion in Tibet kills at atomic 780 people.
April 11, 2012: A magnitude-8.6 convulse off the west bank of arctic Sumatra in Indonesia triggers tsunami warnings in added than two dozen nations.
March 9, 1957: A magnitude-8.6 convulse strikes the Andreanof Islands in Alaska triggers a 16-meter (52-foot) -high tsunami.
Sept. 12, 2007: A magnitude-8.5 convulse abreast Sumatra in Indonesia kills at atomic 25 people.
Feb. 1, 1938: A magnitude-8.5 convulse in Banda Sea, Indonesia, generates a baby tsunami.
Feb. 3, 1923: A magnitude-8.5 convulse in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East triggers a tsunami.
Nov. 11, 1922: A magnitude-8.5 convulse forth the Chile-Argentina bound triggers a tsunami that causes accident forth Chile's coast.
Oct. 13, 1963: A magnitude-8.5 convulse in the Kuril Islands triggers a tsunami.
Sept. 16, 2015: A magnitude-8.3 convulsion in Illapel, Chile, killing 14 people.
Dec. 12, 1979: A magnitude-8.2 convulsion abreast the Ecuadorean anchorage city-limits of Tumaco. It triggered a tsunami.
Recent above earthquakes:
April 25, 2015: a magnitude-7.8 convulsion in Nepal, killing added than 8,000 people.
March 2, 2016: A magnitude-7.8 convulsion strikes in the Indian Ocean, 800 kilometers (500 miles) southwest of Sumatra in Indonesia. Tsunami warnings were briefly issued for Indonesia and Australia.
April 16, 2016: A magnitude-7.8 convulsion on Ecuador's axial bank abreast the boondocks of Muisne.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
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