According to Agence France Presse, the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria and killed more than 41,000 people was one of the ten worst earthquakes in terms of loss of life in the last hundred years, so what is it?
– 1976 .. 242 thousand dead in ChinaAn earthquake of 7.8 degrees and 7.5 degrees according to the US Geological Survey hit the industrial city of Tangshan, 200 km east of Beijing, bringing the official death toll to 242,000, but 700,000 died, according to estimates of Western experts, according to Chinese officials. It was also the second deadliest earthquake in human history in terms of death toll, after the earthquake that struck Shanxi, northern China, in 1556, which killed an estimated 830,000.
– In 2004… 230,000 died in Southeast Asia: On December 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a massive tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people along the coasts of ten Southeast Asian countries, including 170,000 in Indonesia. reach a speed of 700 km per hour and thirty meters high.
– In 2010… 200,000 dead in Haiti: The magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 1.5 million, destroying the capital Port-au-Prince after the earthquake, which killed more than 1,000 people. this happened. ten thousand people.
– In 1923… 142,000 died in Japan: At noon on September 1, 1923, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook the Kanto Plain, leaving over 142,000 dead, missing, and over 100,000 injured; many of them died or were injured in the fires that hit Tokyo and Yokohama over the course of two years. day.
– In 1948… 110,000 dead in Turkmenistan: On October 5, 1948, at least 110,000 people died in a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, which was then part of the Soviet Union.
– In 2008… 87 thousand died in Sichuan: On May 12, 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake killed more than 87,000 people and injured more than 4.45 million, and devastated large areas of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. Thousands of students died as victims when poor schools collapsed.
– In 2005… 73,000 people were killed in Kashmir: On October 8, 2005, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed more than 73,000 people and displaced 3.5 million people, mostly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. The entire health care infrastructure has almost collapsed.
– In 1932… 70,000 dead in China: On December 25, 1932, 70,000 people died in a 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the city of Gansu in northwestern China.
– 67,000 people were killed in Peru in 1970: On May 31, 1970, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck the northern coast of Peru, killing 67,000 people. The city of Yungay, 450 km north of Lima, was swept away by an avalanche of mud and snow, and the mountain town of Huaraz was the worst affected.
– By 2023… More than 41,000 temporary deaths in Turkey and Syria: On February 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and neighboring Syria, followed by a powerful 7.5-magnitude aftershock, which brought the death toll to more than 41,000 on Friday, according to an unspecified that count.
Source: “AFP”
Source: Arabic RT
