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The 10 deadliest earthquakes of the XXI century

2023-02-08 20:34:34Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The 10 deadliest earthquakes of the XXI century
View from the earthquake in Turkey

With provisional estimates rising by the hour, following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, below are the 10 deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century:

2004 – 230,000 dead in Southeast Asia

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake in Sumatra (Indonesia) triggered a giant tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people off the coast of 10 countries in Southeast Asia.

Giant waves, with a speed of 700 km/h, reached up to 30 meters in height.

2010 – 200,000 dead in Haiti

On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti and left 1.5 million homeless. The earthquake turns the capital, Port-au-Prince, into a field of rubble.

The country was then hit, since October 2010, by a cholera epidemic, with more than 10,000 deaths by January 2019.

2008 – 87,000 dead in Sichuan

On May 12, 2008, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake killed more than 87,000 people and injured 4.45 million while destroying large areas of Sichuan Province (Southwest China). Among the victims are thousands of students, killed by the collapse of unsafely built schools.

2005 – 75,000 dead in Kashmir

On October 8, 2005, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 73,000 people and left 3.5 million homeless, mostly in the Pakistani-controlled Kashmir area. Medical infrastructure has been reduced to almost nothing.

2003 – 31,000 dead in Bam, Iran

On December 26, 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the city of Bam, in southeastern Iran, killing more than 31,000 people, almost a quarter of the city's population. The old mud-brick city, a wonder of world heritage, has been destroyed.

2001 – 20,000 dead in India

On January 26, 2001, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the state of Gujarat (Western India) and killed more than 20,000 people.

2011 – 18,500 dead in Japan

On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake. Less than an hour later, a giant wave that exceeded 20 meters in places hit the coast of the Tohoku region.

Water flooded the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the cores of three reactors of which melted, causing the worst civilian nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986.

The disaster left an estimated 18,500 dead and missing and forced more than 165,000 people from Fukushima Prefecture to evacuate due to radioactive emissions.

2023 – Already more than 11,200 dead in Turkey and Syria

On February 5, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and neighboring Syria, followed by a very strong 7.5-magnitude aftershock. The still very tentative number is more than 11,200 dead.

2015 – 9,000 dead in Nepal

On April 25, 2015, an estimated 9,000 people died in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Central Nepal. The capital Kathmandu and the epicenter regions, 80 kilometers away, are devastated.

2006 – 6,000 dead on the island of Java

On May 26, 2006, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on the island of Java killed nearly 6,000 people. The disaster left an estimated 38,000 injured and more than 420,000 homeless.


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