(Part 4) North, East, and Central Asian Earthquakes

Asia has many earthquakes. Being the largest continent, Asia has most major quakes. Sorry for the inconvenience of splitting this hub up (The second part is up). Below are some selected earthquakes that happened in Asia.

On January 23, 1556 a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the Shaanxi Province, China. With 800,000 to 830,000 fatalities, the 1556 Shaanxi Earthquake still remains the deadliest earthquake in history.

On June 8, 1887, a magnitude 7.3 strikes Kazakhstan.

On June 15, 1896, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Sanriku, Japan. This earthquake was the most powerful earthquake up to the 2011 Honshu earthquake.

On July 9, 1905, a magnitude 8.4 struck Mongolia.

On February 3, 1923 a magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck Kamchatka, Russia.

On August 10, 1931, a magnitude 8 struck Xinjiang Province, China. About 10000 fatalities were reported.

On March 2, 1933, a magnitude 8.4 earthquake struck Sanriku, Japan. About 3000 fatalities were reported.

On August 15, 1950, a magnitude 8.6 strikes the China and India border region or the Assam-Tibet border region.

On November 4, 1952, a magnitude 9.0 struck the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.

On November 6, 1958, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Kuril Islands of Russia.

On October 10, 1963, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck the east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.

On May 16, 1968, a magnitude 8.2 struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan.

On Thursday, September 25, 2003 a magnitude 8.3 struck near the Japanese island of Hokkaido. This earthquake was the second most recent 8+ earthquake in Japan.

On Wednesday, November 16, 2006, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Kuril Islands of Russia.

On Friday, March 11, 2011, at 05:46:23, a magnitude 9.0 strikes near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. This earthquake is the most powerful earthquake in 2011 and has caused significant damage in Japan and the regions surrounding the Pacific Ocean. This, so far, is the largest earthquake ever to occur near or on Japan. The tsunami is what killed most people in Japan. One person in California was killed as well. The tsunami also struck the Fukushima I power plant. More than 1000 aftershocks occurred in the time span from March 11 to July 11, 2011.

The 2011 Kyrgyzstan earthquake is depicted in another hub.