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The world's largest quakes since 1900

This is a table of the largest recorded earthquakes since 1900 for which moment magnitude is known. Moment magnitude, which was devised in 1977, measures large earthquakes more accurately than the conventional Richter magnitude, which was devised by American seismologist Charles F Richter in 1935.



Year  Location                                Magnitude

1906 Ecuador 8.8 1922 Central Chile 8.5 1923 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 8.5 Kanto Plain, Japan 7.9 1932 Jalisco, Mexico 8.1 1933 Pacific Ocean floor, near Japan 8.4 1938 Banda sea floor, near Indonesia 8.5 Pacific Ocean floor, near Alaska 8.2 1944 Southern Honshu, Japan 8.1 1946 Pacific Ocean floor, near Japan 8.1 1949 Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia 8.1 1950 Arunachal Pradesh, India 8.6 1951 Southeastern Tibet 7.5 1952 Tokachi-Oki, Hokkaido Island, Japan 8.1 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 9.0 1957 Aleutian Islands 9.1 Southwestern Mongolia 8.1 1958 Kuril Islands 8.3 1960 Southern Child 9.5 1963 Kuril Islands 8.5 1964 Southern Alaska 9.2 1965 Aleutian Islands 8.7 1968 Pacific Ocean floor, near Japan 8.2 1977 Sumbawa Island, Indonesia 8.3 1989 South Pacific Ocean floor, near Macquarie Island, Australia 8.2 1991 Southern California 7.5 1994 Kuril Islands 8.3 Northwestern Bolivia 8.2 1996 Irian Jaya, Indonesia 8.2 2001 Gujarat, India 7.9

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