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AFP
25 April, 2015, 16:49
Update: 25 April, 2015, 17:10
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Nepal Quake: 1896 dead, 4718 injured
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Deadliest earthquakes of the past 30 years

AFP
25 April, 2015, 16:49
Update: 25 April, 2015, 17:10
Hundreds are feared dead after a powerful 7.9 magnitude quake rocked Nepal on Saturday. Photo courtesy: Telegraph

Chrono: India: Hundreds are feared dead after a powerful 7.9 magnitude quake rocked Nepal on Saturday. Below is a list of some of the world's deadliest earthquakes in the past 30 years.

-- 11 August 2012: Twin earthquakes with a magnitude 6.3 and 6.4 leave 306 dead and more than 3,000 injured near the Iranian city of Tabriz.

-- 11 March 2011: Nearly 18,900 are killed when a tsunami triggered by a massive magnitude 9.0 undersea quake slams into the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant.

-- 23 October 2011: An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocks eastern Turkey, leaving more than 600 dead and at least 4,150 injured.

-- 12 January 2010: Magnitude 7.0 quake hits Haiti, leaving between 250,000 and 300,000 dead.

-- 14 April 2010: A 6.9-magnitude quake hits Yushu county in northwest China's Qinghai province leaving 3,000 people dead and missing.

-- 12 May 2008: A quake measuring 8.0 hits China's southwest province of Sichuan, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing.

-- 27 May 2006: A powerful quake in Indonesia's Yogyakarta region kills 6,000 and leaves 1.5 million homeless.

-- 8 October 2005: An earthquake of 7.6 kills more than 75,000 people, the vast majority of them in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and the Pakistani-administered zone of Kashmir state. Some 3.5 million are displaced.

-- 28 March 2005: An earthquake on Indonesia's Nias island off Sumatra leaves 900 dead.

-- 26 December 2004: A massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra island triggers a tsunami which kills 220,000 in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.

-- 26 December 2003: A quake measuring 6.7 hits the Iranian city of Bam, killing at least 31,884 people and injuring 18,000.

-- 26 January 2001: A massive 7.7 earthquake hits the western Indian state of Gujarat, killing 25,000 people and injuring 166,000.

-- 30 September 1993: A 6.3-magnitude quake hits the western Indian state of Maharashtra, killing 7,601.

-- 20 October 1991: A quake measuring 6.6 hits the Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh state in India, killing 768.

-- 20 August 1988: A magnitude 6.8 quake hits eastern Nepal, killing 721 people in Nepal and at least 277 in the neighbouring Indian state of Bihar.

- 28 July 1976: A magnitude 7.8 quake hits Tangshan, in north China's Hebei province. Officials said 242,000 people died, although some western sources said the toll was higher.

-- 15 January 1934: Magnitude 8.1 quake hits eastern Nepal and Bihar state in neighbouring India killing 10,700 people.

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