2023年1月27日 · From the devastating Sumatran quake and tsunami of 2004 to a monstrous temblor in Siberia that, thankfully, killed no one, here are the 20 largest earthquakes ever recorded, according to the...

Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history.

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The biggest earthquake ever recorded occurred in 1960 near the city of Valdivia, Chile. With a magnitude of 9.5, it was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, killing an estimated 5,700.

The world's largest earthquake with an instrumentally documented magnitude occurred on May 22, 1960 near Valdivia, in southern Chile. It was assigned a magnitude of 9.5 by the United States Geological Survey.

2011年3月14日 · Most of the largest known earthquakes have been centred around the Pacific's Ring of Fire. Image credit: WIkimedia/Gringer. Here are the 10 biggest earthquakes detected since records began.

The biggest earthquake ever recorded, of magnitude 9.5, happened in 1960 in Chile, at a subduction zone where the Pacific plate dives under the South American plate.

2022年5月27日 · Here are the 10 biggest earthquakes in history with the largest magnitudes ever recorded. An estimated 500,000 detectable earthquakes take place around the world each year, about 100,000 of which can be felt and 100 of which cause damage.

2018年4月2日 · The 10 largest magnitudes in recorded history 1. Valdivia, Chile 22 May 1960 (magnitude 9.5) This earthquake killed 1655 people, injured 3000 and displaced two million. It caused US$550 million damage in Chile, while the tsunami that it spawned caused deaths and damage as far away as Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.

2023年11月14日 · Two of them occurred in the past two decades (the 2004 Indonesia and 2011 Japan quakes, both of which triggered large deadly tsunamis). The very largest quake ever to be recorded was the Great Chilean Earthquake (Valdivia Earthquake) on 22 May 1960. At magnitude 9.5, it was about as large as an earthquake according to geophysical laws can be.