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In China. It was during the Xia dynasty,it happened in the year 1831 BC.
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Date: May 526
Location: Antioch (Syria, Turkey regions)
Death Toll: 250,000
The Event: Not much is known about the Antioch earthquake beyond its staggering death toll of a quarter-million people. Historians estimate that the event occurred between May 20 and May 29 of 526. It remains one of the most brutal earthquakes in recorded history, despite coming in at VIII on the Mercalli scale, four notches below No. 5 on this list. The tremor reportedly set off a fire that caused widespread property damage to structures within the hold of the Byzantine Empire, a portion of the Roman Empire that at the time boasted a population in excess of 34 million. In just a few minutes nearly 1 percent of them were gone. By comparison, that would be like losing the entire city of Chicago, Illinois, in one fell swoop.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe largest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 in 1960 in Valdivia, Chile.
The Valdivia earthquake in Valdivia, Chile, which measured a 9.5 on the Richter scale
that would be the earthquake in Chile in 1960. rating 9.5 on the magnitude scale
killing 6000
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∙ 14y agoThis question is impossible to answer since dust in space (castoff of star matter) is coalescing together to violently form a planet. At what point do you call it a world and which particular shake that is constantly happening do you call the first earthquake? The matter where this stuff is has since been reformed numerous times throughout earth's history such that it could be spread everywhere.
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∙ 14y agoWe will never know when the first earthquake was.
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∙ 12y agoSince the dawn of the earth earthquakes have shaped the earth. This is before recorded time or man.
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∙ 12y agoAbout 1831 B.C.E in China
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i depends where the earthquake is.
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How big was the first earthquake on the 4th September 2010?
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AN EARTHquake first reaches a place that is focus strong earthquakes are in the epicentre but this is not the place from where earthquake originates i.e focus
What is focus and epicenter of an earthquake?
The focus of an earthquake is the point along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.The epicenter of an earthquake is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point, or focus.
Where did the first earthquake that occurred in 2010?
The first earthquake that occurred in 2010 was in Haiti (PORT AU PRINCE) on January 12, 2010
