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Spain 🇪🇸Recent quakes & seismic zones BarcelonaIs it at risk? Tenerife & Canary Is.Volcanic seismicity AlicanteIs it a seismic zone? MurciaSpain's highest-risk region Granada2020-21 swarm & active faults Almería1522 quake, one of Spain's deadliest MálagaCosta del Sol seismic risk JaénBetic range, moderate risk Greece 🇬🇷Europe's most seismic country Italy 🇮🇹Faults, quakes & volcanoes Turkey 🇹🇷Anatolian faults explained Monterrey 🇲🇽Low seismic risk Guadalajara 🇲🇽Moderate seismic risk Querétaro 🇲🇽Low seismic risk Peru 🇵🇪Extremely seismic region Lima 🇵🇪Nazca subduction risk Colombia 🇨🇴Triple-plate boundary Ecuador 🇪🇨High seismic hazard Chile 🇨🇱World's most seismic country Mexico 🇲🇽1985 M8.0 & SASMEX Nepal 🇳🇵2015 Gorkha quake, M7.8 Kathmandu 🇳🇵The 2015 Gorkha earthquake Guatemala 🇬🇹1976 Motagua Fault quake, M7.5 Costa Rica 🇨🇷The Nicoya seismic gap San Jose, Costa Rica 🇨🇷Central Valley faults & Pacific subduction El Salvador 🇸🇻2001 twin earthquakes San Salvador 🇸🇻Capital earthquake risk Panama 🇵🇦1991 Limón & 1882 tsunami quakes Nicaragua 🇳🇮1972 Managua earthquake, M6.3 Bolivia 🇧🇴Deep Andean subduction quakes Venezuela 🇻🇪The Boconó Fault & 1812 Caracas quake Honduras 🇭🇳2009 Roatán earthquake, M7.3 Dominican Republic 🇩🇴1946 Samaná tsunami quake Cuba 🇨🇺Oriente Fault & 2020 M7.7 quake Puerto Rico 🇵🇷2020 Indios swarm, M6.4 Haiti 🇭🇹2010 Port-au-Prince disaster, M7.0 Jamaica 🇯🇲1692 Port Royal & 1907 Kingston quakes Oaxaca 🇲🇽Guerrero Gap & 2017/2020 quakes Argentina 🇦🇷Andean subduction & 1944 San Juan quake Brazil 🇧🇷Stable interior, minimal seismic risk Paraguay 🇵🇾Stable interior, virtually no earthquakes Uruguay 🇺🇾Stable craton, rarely shakes Mazatlán 🇲🇽Rivera plate & 1932 Jalisco quakes Morocco 🇲🇦2023 Al Haouz & 1960 Agadir quakes Las Vegas 🇺🇸Basin and Range fault risk Memphis 🇺🇸New Madrid Seismic Zone Charleston 🇺🇸The 1886 M7 disaster Sacramento 🇺🇸Low but not zero seismic risk Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱2010 Maule quake & San Ramón fault Quito 🇪🇨Quito Fault System & Andean risk Ambato 🇪🇨1949 Ecuadorian disaster Cuenca, Ecuador 🇪🇨Moderate Andean risk Lisbon 🇵🇹The 1755 great quake & tsunami Istanbul 🇹🇷The overdue Marmara mega-quake Skopje 🇲🇰The 1963 catastrophe Tokyo 🇯🇵1923 Kanto quake & the next Big One Naples 🇮🇹Vesuvius & Campi Flegrei risk San Diego 🇺🇸Rose Canyon Fault risk San Jose 🇺🇸Squeezed between the Hayward & San Andreas faults Rome 🇮🇹Apennine quakes felt in the capital L'Aquila 🇮🇹The 2009 disaster & scientist trial Pakistan 🇵🇰2005 Kashmir quake, M7.6 Iceland 🇮🇸Mid-Atlantic Ridge & Reykjanes Afghanistan 🇦🇫Hindu Kush deep quakes Russia 🇷🇺Kamchatka's 1952 M9.0 megaquake India 🇮🇳Himalayan collision & 2001 Gujarat quake Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬Ring of Fire, 2018 Highlands quake China 🇨🇳Deadliest quake ever, Shaanxi 1556 Myanmar 🇲🇲The Sagaing Fault, 2025 M7.7 quake Vanuatu 🇻🇺2024 Port Vila quake, M7.3 Vancouver 🇨🇦Cascadia's M9 "Big One" risk Reno 🇺🇸Walker Lane fault swarms Salt Lake City 🇺🇸The overdue Wasatch Fault Acapulco 🇲🇽The Guerrero Gap Puerto Vallarta 🇲🇽Near the Rivera plate Chilpancingo 🇲🇽Inside the overdue Guerrero Gap Salina Cruz 🇲🇽Tehuantepec isthmus & the 2017 M8.2 Ensenada 🇲🇽Baja California's active faults Guayaquil 🇪🇨Nazca subduction & soft soils Concepción 🇨🇱2010 Maule quake, M8.8 Guatemala City 🇬🇹1976 Motagua Fault disaster Panama City 🇵🇦Moderate-to-low risk Caracas 🇻🇪Boconó Fault & the 1812/1967 disasters Manzanillo 🇲🇽1995 M8.0 quake & tsunami Managua 🇳🇮Built on the fault that destroyed it in 1972

Famous earthquakes in history

Valdivia 1960M9.5 — the strongest ever Tōhoku 2011M9.1 — Japan & Fukushima Sumatra 2004M9.1 — deadliest tsunami ever Haiti 2010M7.0 — one of the deadliest ever Kamchatka 1952M9.0 — Russia's strongest Ecuador–Colombia 1906M8.8 — first mega-tsunami studied Tangshan 1976M7.6 — deadliest ever? Mexico City 1985M8.0 — Sept 19 Turkey–Syria 2023M7.8 Messina 1908M7.1 — deadliest in Europe Kashmir 2005M7.6 — Pakistan San Francisco 1906M7.9 — founded modern seismology Kanto 1923M7.9 — Tokyo firestorms Sichuan 2008M7.9 — China Assam–Tibet 1950M8.6 — largest continental quake Shaanxi 1556~M8.0 — deadliest ever, ~830,000 dead Kobe 1995M6.9 — Japan's costliest disaster Bam 2003M6.6 — Iran's ancient citadel destroyed Ancash 1970M7.9 — Peru's deadliest disaster İzmit 1999M7.6 — Turkey, near Istanbul Guatemala 1976M7.5 — Motagua Fault disaster Loma Prieta 1989M6.9 — the World Series quake Armenia (Spitak) 1988M6.8 — opened the USSR to aid Northridge 1994M6.7 — LA's costliest disaster Morocco 2023M6.8 — Al Haouz, deadliest since 1960 Agadir 1960M5.9 — Morocco's deadliest disaster Pisco 2007M8.0 — Peru's coast devastated Managua 1972M6.3 — Nicaragua's capital destroyed L'Aquila 2009M6.3 — Italy's deadliest in decades Palu 2018M7.5 — tsunami & liquefaction disaster Gujarat 2001M7.7 — India's Republic Day quake Chi-Chi 1999M7.6 — Taiwan's 921 disaster Erzincan 1939M7.8 — Turkey's deadliest disaster Ecuador 2016M7.8 — Pedernales disaster New Madrid 1811-12M7.5-7.8 — largest quakes in the eastern US Christchurch 2011M6.3 — New Zealand's deadliest disaster Cascadia 1700~M9 — the Pacific NW's last megaquake Nankai 1946M8.1 — Japan's last Nankai Trough rupture Hawaii 1868M7.9 — the Big Island's strongest ever Alaska 1964M9.2 — the strongest ever in North America Lisbon 1755~M8.5 — the quake that changed Europe Lorca 2011M5.1 — Spain's deadliest in decades Nepal 2015M7.8 — Gorkha disaster Maule 2010M8.8 — Chile's strongest quake Haiti 2021M7.2 — another Port-au-Prince disaster Irpinia 1980M6.9 — Italy's deadliest modern quake Tabas 1978M7.4 — Iran's deadliest quake Latur 1993M6.2 — India's deadliest intraplate quake Amatrice 2016M6.2 — central Italy's deadliest modern quake Herat 2023M6.3 — Afghanistan's deadliest in years Arica 1868M~8.5 — tsunami crossed the whole Pacific Assam 1897M8.1 — the quake that founded seismology Hōei 1707M~8.6 — Japan's biggest before 2011 Sicily 1693M7.4 — deadliest quake in Italian history Calabria 1783M~7.0 — five-quake sequence, up to 50,000 dead Ashgabat 1948M7.3 — up to 110,000 dead, hidden for decades Quetta 1935M7.7 — South Asia's deadliest before 2005 Haicheng 1975M7.3 — the only quake ever predicted Chillán 1939M8.3 — Chile's deadliest quake El Salvador 2001M7.7 — the Las Colinas landslide Peru 2001M8.4 — the Camaná tsunami Nias 2005M8.6 — Indonesia's aftershock megaquake Manjil-Rudbar 1990M7.4 — Iran's deadliest modern quake Skopje 1963M6.1 — North Macedonia's deadliest disaster El Asnam 1980M7.1 — Algeria's strongest recorded quake Haiyuan (Gansu) 1920M7.8 — China's deadliest landslide disaster Bihar-Nepal 1934M8.0 — the Himalaya's deadliest modern quake Boumerdès 2003M6.8 — Algeria's deadliest since 1980 Puebla 2017M7.1 — struck on the 1985 quake's anniversary Yogyakarta 2006M6.3 — Java's Opak Fault disaster Afghanistan 2022M5.9 — Paktika's deadliest in decades Napier 1931M7.8 — New Zealand's deadliest disaster Tōnankai 1944M8.1 — Japan's wartime quake hidden by censorship Biggest ever →The full ranking
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