Most disastrous earthquakes after year 1900



China P Rep 1976
(Tangshan, Pek.,Tientsin), 242000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Haiti 2010
(Port-au-prince, Kenscoff, .), 222570 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1927
(Nanchang (Jiangxi)), 200000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1920
(Gansu province), 180000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Indonesia 2004
(Aceh province (Sumatra)), 165708 deaths (Wikipedia)


Japan 1923
(Kanto plaine (Yokohama,To .), 143000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Soviet Union 1948
(Ashkabat (Turkmenistan)), 110000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 2008
(Wenchuan country, Wencgua .), 87476 deaths (Wikipedia)


Italy 1908
(Messina (Sicilia)), 75000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Pakistan 2005
(Bagh, Muzzafarabad, Poonc .), 73338 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1932
(Gansu province), 70000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Peru 1970
(Chimbote), 66794 deaths (Wikipedia)


Pakistan 1935
(Quetta (Baluchistan)), 60000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Iran Islam Rep 1990
(Rasht, Astara, Zanjan, Gh .), 40000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Sri Lanka 2004
(), 35399 deaths (Wikipedia)


Turkey 1939
(Erzincan (Anatolia)), 32962 deaths (Wikipedia)


Chile 1939
(Chillan region (Concepcio .), 30000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Italy 1915
(Avezzano), 29980 deaths (Wikipedia)


Iran Islam Rep 2003
(Bam (Kerran province)), 26796 deaths (Wikipedia)


Iran Islam Rep 1978
(Tabas (Khorasan province) .), 25000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Soviet Union 1988
(Armenia, Leninakan, Kirov .), 25000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Guatemala 1976
(Guatemala city), 23000 deaths (Wikipedia)


India 2001
(Kachch-Bhuj, Ahmedabad, R .), 20005 deaths (Wikipedia)


Chile 1906
(Valparaiso), 20000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1974
(Yunnan, Sichuan), 20000 deaths (Wikipedia)


India 2005
(Kangra), 20000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Turkey 1999
(Izmit, Kocaeli, Yalova, G .), 17127 deaths (Wikipedia)


India 2004
(Tamil Nadu state, Andaman .), 16389 deaths (Wikipedia)


Indonesia 1917
(Bali), 15000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1907
(Tien Shan), 12000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Iran Islam Rep 1962
(Qazvin), 12000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Morocco 1960
(Agadir), 12000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Soviet Union 1907
(Samarkand (Uzbekistan), T .), 12000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Argentina 1944
(San Juan), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1975
(Anshan Liaoning province), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1970
(Yunnan province), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1933
(), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


China P Rep 1918
(Kwangtung (Guangdong)), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Iran Islam Rep 1968
(Khorasan province), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Nicaragua 1972
(Managua), 10000 deaths (Wikipedia)


India 1993
(Killari, Haegoan, Sostour .), 9748 deaths (Wikipedia)


Mexico 1985
(Mexico city, Michoacan, J .), 9500 deaths (Wikipedia)


Nepal 1934
(Eastern Nepal), 9040 deaths (Wikipedia)


Thailand 2004
(Krabi, Phang Nga, Phuket, .), 8345 deaths (Wikipedia)


Chile 1960
(Puerto Montt, Valdivia (A .), 6000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Ecuador 1949
(Pelileo, Ambato), 6000 deaths (Wikipedia)


India 1934
(Bihar province), 6000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Philippines 1976
(Gulf of Moro, Sulu), 6000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Taiwan (China) 1906
(Kagi, Toroku), 6000 deaths (Wikipedia)


Turkey 1903
(Malazgirt), 6000 deaths (Wikipedia)





Earthquakes themselves are brown, tsunamis are blue.
This infographic was produced during the first HSOpen workshop/hackathon (#HSOpen) on March 14, 2011. The data used was obtained from EM-DAT, The International Disaster Database. It was annotated with appropriate Wikipedia links and scrubbed from annoying little errors by Salla Laaksonen (@jahapaula) and Jussi Pullinen (@jussi_). Actual representation is a quick hack™ by Atte Hinkka (@guaq). Jyry Suvilehto made another visualization of the same data set using IBM's Many Eyes.