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 .. Shaanxi (Shensi) China (Magnitude 8.0)
On January 23, 1556, a massive 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Shaanxi (Shensi) China destroying buildings, wrecking cities and killing more than 830,000 people. The earthquake was reported to have collapsed most houses, caused city walls to tumble down and was felt in Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shandong and Shanxi also known as the nine provinces. This massive quake caused ground fissures, sandblows, liquefaction, subsidence, landslides and ground uplifts that also resulted in ground water to explode to the earthâ?™s surface.
 .. Tangshan China (Magnitude 7.5)
On July 27, 1976 in Tangshan China, a terrifying 7.5 magnitude quake sent people scrambling for safety. The Tang-Shan area experienced extensive infrastructure damage that extended to Beijing and more than 255,000 people were confirmed dead and another 799,000 people suffered injuries. .. Sumatra (Magnitude 9.1)
On December 26, 2004, a record earthquake measuring 9.1 magnitude struck near Sumatra causing a tsunami that swept across fourteen countries in South Asia and East Africa; that resulted in 227,898 deaths and left more than 1.7 million survivors homeless. The tsunami that roared on the Indonesia shores and coastlines was the worst of its kind in recorded history and this is one record that no one wants to see broken. .. Haiyuan, Ningxia (Ninghsia) China (Magnitude 7.8)
On December 16, 1920, the ground began to shake violently resulting in fast-moving landslides which buried villages and dammed rivers and caused the earth to split apart swallowing anyone and anything that it came near. This earthquake left an estimated 200,000 people dead and thousands more injured and even changed the course of some rivers in the area. .. Kanto (Kwanto) Japan
On September 01, 1923, a powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake triggered firestorms from deep within the bowels of the earth and burned to the ground an estimated 381,000 homes or about half the known houses in the Yokohama area of Japan. This earthquake caused the earth to permanently uplift some six feet changing the observable north shore of Sagami Bay, which caused a monster tsunami wave measuring 39 feet to pound O-shima and 20 foot waves to storm Izu and Boso Peninsulas simultaneously. The Great Tokyo Earthquake killed more than 142,800 people and completely destroyed more homes and buildings than Godzilla could have done on his best day.
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Earthquakes strike without warning and can kill thousands of people within just a few seconds. With waves of violent shakes that start miles beneath the earth’s surface as the tectonic plates shift or collapse atop of one another; this sudden movement can destroy buildings, roads and entire cities.
Earthquakes can be more destructive and deadly than any other natural disaster and history has recorded the massive destruction on grand scale. A single earthquake event can rock, roll and shake entire cities in to piles of concrete powder and yards deep of steel and concrete rubble within seconds. Earthquakes leave terrified survivors homeless, hurt and hungry amongst rotting dead bodies and equally frightening aftershocks that roar and rumble throughout the days and nights following the earth’s first strike.
Shaanxi (Shensi) China (Magnitude 8.0)
On January 23, 1556, a massive 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Shaanxi (Shensi) China destroying buildings, wrecking cities and killing more than 830,000 people. The earthquake was reported to have collapsed most houses, caused city walls to tumble down and was felt in Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shandong and Shanxi also known as the nine provinces. This massive quake caused ground fissures, sandblows, liquefaction, subsidence, landslides and ground uplifts that also resulted in ground water to explode to the earth’s surface.
Tangshan China (Magnitude 7.5)
On July 27, 1976 in Tangshan China, a terrifying 7.5 magnitude quake sent people scrambling for safety. The Tang-Shan area experienced extensive infrastructure damage that extended to Beijing and more than 255,000 people were confirmed dead and another 799,000 people suffered injuries.
Sumatra (Magnitude 9.1)
On December 26, 2004, a record earthquake measuring 9.1 magnitude struck near Sumatra causing a tsunami that swept across fourteen countries in South Asia and East Africa; that resulted in 227,898 deaths and left more than 1.7 million survivors homeless. The tsunami that roared on the Indonesia shores and coastlines was the worst of its kind in recorded history and this is one record that no one wants to see broken.
Haiyuan, Ningxia (Ninghsia) China (Magnitude 7.8)
On December 16, 1920, the ground began to shake violently resulting in fast-moving landslides which buried villages and dammed rivers and caused the earth to split apart swallowing anyone and anything that it came near. This earthquake left an estimated 200,000 people dead and thousands more injured and even changed the course of some rivers in the area.
Kanto (Kwanto) Japan
On September 01, 1923, a powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake triggered firestorms from deep within the bowels of the earth and burned to the ground an estimated 381,000 homes or about half the known houses in the Yokohama area of Japan. This earthquake caused the earth to permanently uplift some six feet changing the observable north shore of Sagami Bay, which caused a monster tsunami wave measuring 39 feet to pound O-shima and 20 foot waves to storm Izu and Boso Peninsulas simultaneously. The Great Tokyo Earthquake killed more than 142,800 people and completely destroyed more homes and buildings than Godzilla could have done on his best day.
Ashgabat (Ashkhabad), Turkmenistan (Turkmeniya, USSR) Magnitude 7.3
On October 05, 1948, a sudden and violent earthquake strikes Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) and nearby villages causing the collapse and impending destruction of brick and concrete buildings, bridges and train tracks to buckle, which resulted in trains to derail and crash. The earth’s surface ruptured creating large deep rips along the ground further causing building damage and deaths. It has been reported that some 110,000 people lost their life and ten of millions of dollars in lost property.
Eastern Sichuan China (Magnitude 7.9)
On May 12, 2008, the earth began to demonstrate its strength in a most frightening and most destructive way. This earthquake wasn’t the most deadly in the string of quakes that have struck China in the last several hundred years, but it was one of the most destructive by far. Killing an estimated 87,587 people and injuring more than 374,177 others; this earthquake caused more than 89 billion dollars in damages to the country’s infrastructure and completely destroyed more than five million buildings and left another twenty-one million buildings partly damaged. More than 2,000 dams sustained varying degrees of damage and roads and water pipelines were damaged and/or destroyed. Nearly 50 million people were directly affected by this monstrous earthquake and resulting landslides and flooding caused by the event.
Pakistan (Magnitude 7.6)
On October 08, 2005, Pakistan experienced an earthquake that left more than 86,000 of its citizens dead and another 69,000 injured. In Kashmir entire villages were leveled and an estimated eighty percent of the town of Uri was erased from the map. More than four million survivors were left homeless and landslides, rockfalls, ground liquefaction and sandblows blocked or damaged roadways, which slowed down rescuers delivering food, medicine and manpower for up to a week or so.
Messina, Italy (Magnitude 7.2)
On December 28, 1908, an unexpected earthquake hit Messina and Reggio di Calabria, which killed 72,000 residents or about one-quarter of the area population of Reggio di Calabria and more than forty percent of Messina’s citizens. The residents of the area were killed by a combination of earthquake building collapses, fires resulting from quake damages and raging tsunamis that pushed 20 to 39 foot waves on the shores of Sicily and Calabria, which killed anyone attempting to find safety along the coastline.
Haiti (Magnitude 7.0)
On January 12, 2010, the tiny country of Haiti experienced the worst earthquake in more than 20 years. The massive 7.0 magnitude quake almost completely destroyed the capitol city of Port-au-Prince, which by some early estimates have left more than 100,000 citizens dead and nearly everyone else that survived homeless, hurt and hungry. The international response to this natural disaster has poured in to the country and continues to provide needed food, medicine, beds, tents, bottled water, doctors and rescuers. Until more information is provided concerning official body counts; this earthquake will remain tenth on this list and hopefully tenth place is where it will remain
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| Added by peacemaker | On February 14, 2010,5:35 pm | Comment(3) |
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kuelemea
hiyo ni changamoto kwetu kwa watu tunaosoma civil engineering, kudesign majengo ambayo kama yakianguka yasiweze kuleta madhara mengi kwa jamii, sio tu kuvuka semister sbb tumepata зачет ili tuijenge tanzania siku za usoni |
| April 26, 2010,4:16 pm |
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kuelemea
hiyo ni changamoto kwetu kwa watu tunaosoma civil engineering, kudesign majengo ambayo kama yakianguka yasiweze kuleta madhara mengi kwa jamii, sio tu kuvuka semister sbb tumepata зачет ili tuijenge tanzania siku za usoni |
| April 26, 2010,4:16 pm |
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peacemaker
ha ha ha umenichekesha kweli mtu wangu(sio tu kuvuka semister sbb tumepata зачет)!
hii nichangamoto kijana!so kaza kamba. |
| April 26, 2010,4:21 pm |
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