Top 3 earthquakes disasters in the world

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This information was from NBC News. This source is reliable because this earthquake already happened and so many people who were survived from earthquake can prove this information.

1: Shensi, China, Jan. 23, 1556

Magnitude about 8, about 830,000 people died. This earthquake happened in the Shaanxi province (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. More than 830,000 people were killed. This earthquake made a big hole, uplift, subsidence, liquefaction and landslides on the ground. Most towns in the damage area reported city walls collapsed, most houses collapsed and many people reported ground fissures with water gushing out. Same as this website:


2: Aleppo, Syria, Aug. 9, 1138

Magnitude not known, about 230,000 deaths.Syria’s second-largest city destroyed and rocks fallen into the streets and killed hundreds of people. Aleppo was the largest community affected by the earthquake. A Muslim fort at Al-Atarib was destroyed as well, and several smaller towns and manned forts were reduced to rubble. The quake was said to have been felt as far away as Damascus, about 220 miles to the south. The Aleppo earthquake was the first of several occurring between 1138 and 1139 that destroyed areas in northern Syria and western Turkey.

SOURCE: www.nbcnews.com

 
3: Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 26, 2004

Magnitude 9.1, about  227,898 people died.This was the third largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska temblor. In total, 227,898 people were killed or were missing and 1.7 million people were killed by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 14 countries in South Asia and East Africa. (In January 2005, the death toll was 286,000. In April 2005, Indonesia reduced its estimate for the number missing by over 50,000.).

ANALYSIS:
From this information everyone can see that all of this earthquakes were really dangerous that millions of people died. I thought only in Japan huge earthquakes occur. Because I heard so many times about earthquake happened in Japan. So I learned that most huge earthquake happened in China. Also it was really interesting for me to search about this topic.

Reference: www.nbcnews.com

FUTURE RESEARCH: For my next blog post I plan on learning more about earthquakes in Japan by interviewing a classmate.