What are the strongest earthquakes ever recorded? | Earthquakes

One of the most powerful earthquakes that have been recorded so far hit Russia’s Far East on Wednesday and caused the tunami waves to be destroyed in Japan and Alaska, and wants people around the Pacific to be awake or higher ground.

He launched warnings on the Pacific Islands towards Hawaii, North and Central America and Southern Zealand.

According to the US Geology Survey, a view of the most powerful earthquakes previously recorded.

1. Biobío, Chile

In 1960, an earthquake of 9.5 magnitude was shot in a central region of Chile. Valdivia earthquake or the Great Chile earthquake, so far the largest exemption, many of them in the country caused by the Great Tsunami’nin more than 1,600 deaths resulted in deaths. Thousands of people were injured.

2. Alaska

In 1964, an earthquake of 9.2 magnitude took almost five minutes of Alaska’s prince William Sound. More than 130 people and subsequent tsunami were killed in the largest registered earthquake in the USA. There were large landslides and rising waves that caused severe floods. Thousands of aftershocks followed the event during the weeks after the first earthquake.

3. Sumatra, Indonesia

After 2004 Tsunami, Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia remains. Photo: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

A 9.1 earthquake and the emerged tsunami killed 230,000 people in 2004, ruining Southeast and South Asia and East Africa. Only Indonesia recorded more than 167,000 deaths as all communities deleted.

4. TohokuJapan

In 2011, an earthquake of 9.1 magnitude from the coast of North East Japan and triggered a rising tsunami that hit the nuclear power plant. In the three reactors, it overturned power and cooling systems and triggered melts. More than 18,000 people were killed in the earthquake, and some of them have never been saved.

5. KamchatkaRussia

In 1952, an earthquake of 9.0 caused significant damage, but caused the deaths reported despite a tsunami that hit Hawaii with 9.1 meters (30FT) waves.

6. Biobío, Chile

In 2010, the earthquake of 8.8 magnitude hit Central Chile in 2010, shook the capital for one and a half minutes and established a tsunami. More than 500 people were killed in the disaster.

7. Esmeraldas, Ekvador

In 1906, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude and tsunami killed 500 to 1,500 people. The effects were felt on the coast of Central America and miles to San Francisco and Japan.

8. Alaska

In 1965, he hit an 8.7-large Alaska’s rats and caused a tsunami with waves of 11 meters (35FT). There were relatively minor damage, including cracks in the buildings and asphalt track.

9. Tibetan

At least 780 people were killed in 1950 when an earthquake of 8.6 was shot. Dozens of villages, including at least one of them entering a river, were destroyed. There were also large landslides stuck in the Subajaniri River in India. When the water was finally broken, the deadly 7 meters (23) resulted in a wave.

10. Sumatra, Indonesia

In 2012, an earthquake of 8.6 magnitude was shot from the west coast of Northern Sumatra in Indonesia. Although the earthquake caused very little damage, it increased the pressure on an error, which is the source of destructive 2004 tsunami.