EARTHQUAKE TRENDS - Reference Material Used in Main Report.

Below we have listed those earthquakes we counted with greater than 6.99 magnitude from 1901 to 1939. Earlier earthquakes are not yet shown.
Sorry, but the dates for earthquakes listed here are in reverse order to accepted international usage (ie they are in US format which is YYYY-MM-DD).

1938 11 10 - Shumagin Islands, Alaska - M 8.2 1938 02 01 - Banda Sea, Indonesia - M 8.5 1937 07 22 - Central Alaska - M 7.3 1935 05 30 - Quetta, Pakistan - M 7.5 Fatalities 60,000 1935 04 20 - Formosa - M 7.1 Fatalities 3,280 1934 05 04 - Chugach Mountains, Alaska - M 7.1 1934 01 15 - Bihar, India - M 8.1 Fatalities 10,700 1933 11 20 - Baffin Bay, Canada - M 7.4 1933 08 25 - China - M 7.4 Fatalities 10,000 1933 03 02 - Sanriku, Japan - M 8.4 Fatalities 2,990 1932 12 25 - Gansu, China - M 7.6 Fatalities 70,000 1932 12 21 - Cedar Mountain, Nevada - M 7.2 1931 02 02 - Hawke's Bay, New Zealand - M 7.9 Fatalities 256 1930 05 06 - Iran - M 7.2 Fatalities 2,500 1929 11 18 - Grand Banks, Nova Scotia, Canada - M 7.3 1929 05 26 - South of Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada - M 7.0 1929 05 01 - Iran - M 7.4 Fatalities 3,300 1929 03 07 - Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska - M 7.8 1927 11 04 - Lompoc, California - M 7.1 1927 10 24 - Southeast Alaska - M 7.1 1927 05 22 - Tsinghai, China - M 7.9 Fatalities 200,000 1927 03 07 - Tango, Japan - M 7.6 Fatalities 3,020 1925 03 16 - Yunnan, China - M 7.1 Fatalities 5,000 1923 09 01 - Kanto (Kwanto), Japan - M 7.9 Fatalities 143,000 1923 03 24 - China - M 7.3 Fatalities 5,000 1923 02 03 - Kamchatka - M 8.5 1923 01 22 - Humbolt County, California - M 7.2 1922 11 11 - Chile-Argentina Border - M 8.0 1922 01 31 - Eureka, California - M 7.3 1920 12 16 - Gansu, China - M 7.8 Fatalities 200,000 1918 12 06 - Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada - M 7.0 1918 10 11 - Mona Passage - M 7.5 Fatalities 116 1918 02 13 - Kwangtung (Guangdong), China - M 7.3 Fatalities 10,000 1917 01 21 - Bali, Indonesia   - MMI of IX . Fatalities approx 15,000 1915 10 03 - Pleasant Valley, Nevada - M 7.1 1915 01 13 - Avezzano, Italy - M 7.0 Fatalities 30,000 1912 08 09 - Marmara Sea - M 7.8 Fatalities 1,950 1912 07 07 - Paxson, Alaska - M 7.2 1910 09 09 - Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska - M 7.0 1909 01 23 - Iran - M 7.3 Fatalities 5,500 1908 12 28 - Messina, Itlay - M 7.2 Fatalities 70,000 1908 05 15 - Gulf of Alaska - M 7.0 1907 10 21 - Tajikistan - M 8.0 Fatalities 12,000 1906 08 17 - Valparaiso, Chile - M 8.2 Fatalities 20,000 1906 04 18 - San Francisco, California - M 7.8 Fatalities 3000 1906 03 16 - Kagi, Formosa - M 7.1 Fatalities 1,300 1906 01 31 - Off the Coast of Ecuador - M 8.8 Fatalities 1,000 1905 09 08 - Calabria, Italy - M 7.9 Fatalities 2,500 1905 07 09 - Mongolia - M 8.4 1905 04 04 - Kangra, India - M 7.5 Fatalities 19,000 1904 08 27 - Fairbanks, Alaska - M 7.3 1902 04 19 - Guatemala - M 7.5 Fatalities 2,000 1901 12 31 - Cook Inlet, Alaska - M 7.1 notes: the earthquake of 21st Jan 1917 does not show a magnitude on same scale, it has been assumed this earthquake was over M 7.0, although this might not be the case

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