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What are some places in the world where earthquakes have occurred?
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
The following countries have had earthquakes of Magnitude 8 or higher in recent history:
- Argentina (1922)
- Bolivia (1994)
- Canada (1700 & 1949)
- Chile (1730, 1835, 1868, 1877, 1906, 1943, 1960 & 2010)
- China (1556, 1931 & 1950)
- Colombia (1970)
- Dominican Republic (1946)
- Ecuador (1906)
- Greece (1903)
- India (1897, 1934 & 1950)
- Indonesia (1938, 2004, 2005, 2007 & 2012)
- Japan (1891, 1896, 1911, 1933, 1944, 1946, 1952, 1968, 2003 & 2011)
- Leeward Islands (1843)
- Macquarie Islands (2004)
- Mexico (1932 & 1985)
- Mongolia (1905 & 1957)
- New Zealand (1855)
- Pakistan (1945)
- Papua New Guinea (2000)
- Peru (1687, 1821, 1868, 1908, 1940, 1942, 1966, 1974, 2001 & 2007)
- Portugal (1755)
- Puerto Rico (1787)
- Russia (1923, 1952, 1958, 1963, 2006 & 2007)
- Samoa (2009)
- Solomon Islands (2007)
- Taiwan (1920)
- Tajikistan (1907)
- Tonga (2006)
- Turkey (1668)
- United States (1700, 1899, 1938, 1946, 1957, 1964 & 1965)
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