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The death toll from the Sendai earthquake continues to climb. NHK reported that as of March 22, 2011, the official death toll had been raised to more than 8,600 with more than 13,000 missing. The final toll is expected to reach nearly 20,000. This answer will continue to be updated.
27/07/1976 Tangshan, China Official casualty figure is 255,000 deaths. Estimated death toll as high as 655,000. 799,000 injured and extensive damage in the Tang-Shan area. Damage extended as far as Beijing. This is probably the greatest death toll from an earthquake in the last four centuries, and the second greatest in recorded history.The sumatra earthquake it happend in,2004.source: my science teacher.
The Shaanxi earthquake in China on January 23, 1556 had the largest number of recorded deaths. The number of deaths was between 820,000 and 830,000 people due to a magnitude 8.0 quake in a densely populated area.
It was one of the greatest natural disasters in history. It killed almost a million people! :')
There is no record of any single earthquake in the 18th or 19th century that caused the death of over 300,000 people. However, there were several major earthquakes during that time that caused significant loss of lives, such as the 1839 India earthquake and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, but the death toll in these events did not exceed 100,000 people.
the death toll is 230,000
The estimated death toll for the March 11, 2011 earthquake is 12,690.
the death toll happened to be 237,418 people.......
>10,000
Better warning systems and improved construction techniques .
The 1964 earthquake in the US, known as the Great Alaska Earthquake, resulted in approximately 139 deaths.
185 people killed and 6,000 people injured
The Haitian government has that estimated 316,000 people died as a result of the 2010 earthquake.
the black death
As of 31 March 2011 it is in excess of 12,000.
The death toll from the Sendai earthquake continues to climb. Currently more than 5,300 are dead (as of 3/17) and more than 8,000 people are still missing. This answer will continue to be updated and is expected to top 10,000.
If you mean the 2011 Tohoku earthquake which struck Japan, the death toll is at 14,416 while there are still 11,889 people missing.