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1879 Bojnurd earthquake
The 1879 Bojnurd earthquake (بجنورد) was a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck the town of Bojnurd in northeastern Iran on April 2, 1879, killing about 700 people.
1879 Bozqush earthquake
The 1879 Bozqush earthquake, estimated at magnitude 6.7, struck the Bozqush Mountains of northwestern Iran on 22 March 1879, destroying villages and killing between 500 and more than 3,200 people.
1879 Gansu earthquake
The 1879 Gansu earthquake, known as the southern Wudu earthquake, was a magnitude 8 event that struck Longnan, China, on July 1, 1879, killing over 20,000 people.
1881 Cesme earthquake
The 1881 Cesme earthquake, also called the Chios-Cesme earthquake, was a magnitude 6.5 quake that killed about 5,000 people on Chios and the Cesme peninsula in April 1881.
1881 Gansu earthquake
The 1881 Gansu earthquake was a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck eastern Gansu Province, China, on 20 July 1881, killing several hundred people near Zhouqu and Lixian.
1883 Ayvalik earthquake
The 1883 Ayvalik earthquake was a destructive shock of about magnitude 6.8 that struck the Çeşme peninsula near Urla on 15 October 1883, collapsing some 3,600 houses.
1883 Casamicciola earthquake
The 1883 Casamicciola earthquake struck the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples on 28 July 1883, killing 2,333 people and destroying most of Casamicciola.
1884 Qeshm I earthquake
The 1884 Qeshm I earthquake struck central Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf on 19 May 1884, ruining 15 villages and 34 mosques and killing several hundred people.
1884 Spain earthquake
The 1884 Spain earthquake, also called the Andalusian or Arenas del Rey earthquake, struck Granada and Málaga on Christmas Day 1884, killing 750 to 900 people.
1885 Srinagar earthquake
The 1885 Srinagar earthquake, also called the 1885 Baramulla earthquake, struck the Kashmir Valley northwest of Srinagar on 30 May 1885 with magnitude about 6.3, killing around 3,000 people.
1886 Triphylie (Peleponese) earthquake
The 1886 Triphylie earthquake was a large, destructive earthquake that struck the southwestern Peloponnese of Greece on August 27, 1886, destroying Filiatra and killing at least 326 people.
1887 Italy earthquake
The 1887 Italy earthquake, also called the 1887 Ligurian earthquake, was a magnitude-6.5-to-7-class earthquake that struck offshore of Imperia on 23 February 1887, killing at least 600 people and generating a small tsunami.
1887 Yunnan earthquake
The 1887 Yunnan earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Shiping County in Yunnan Province, China, on 16 December 1887, killing at least 2,000 people.
1890 Tash earthquake
The 1890 Tash earthquake was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the eastern Alborz mountains of northern Iran on July 11, 1890, devastating the village of Tash.
1891 Mino-Owari earthquake
The 1891 Mino-Owari earthquake (Nobi earthquake) struck central Japan on 28 October 1891, killing more than 7,000 people and remaining the largest recorded inland earthquake in Japanese history.
1893 Malatya earthquake
The 1893 Malatya earthquake struck the Malatya region of the Ottoman Empire on 3 March 1893, destroying more than 10,000 buildings and killing 885 people.
1893 Quchan earthquake
The 1893 Quchan earthquake destroyed the town of Quchan in northeastern Iran on 17 November 1893, killing more than 5,000 people, about half the town's population.
1893 Sichuan earthquake
The 1893 Sichuan earthquake was a magnitude about 7 earthquake that struck the Daofu–Qianning (道孚–干宁) area of western Sichuan, China, on 29 August 1893, killing over 200 people.
1894 Locride earthquake
The 1894 Locride earthquake, also called the Atalanti earthquake sequence, was a pair of shocks in April 1894 in Central Greece that killed more than 250 people.
1894 Syonai earthquake
The 1894 Syonai earthquake (庄内地震), also called the Sakata earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 quake in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on 22 October 1894 that killed 726 people.
1894 Turkey earthquake
The 1894 Turkey earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck Istanbul and the eastern Sea of Marmara on 10 July 1894, collapsing buildings and killing hundreds.
1894 Venezuela earthquake
The 1894 Venezuela earthquake, known as the Gran Terremoto de los Andes, struck the Venezuelan Andes on 28 April 1894, heavily damaging Mérida and killing hundreds.
1895 Quchan earthquake
The 1895 Quchan earthquake was a large right-lateral strike-slip earthquake that struck Quchan in northeastern Iran on 17 January 1895, again destroying the town rebuilt after the 1893 earthquake.
1896 Khvoy (Khoy) earthquake
The 1896 Khvoy earthquake was a destructive historical earthquake that struck the Khoy area of northwestern Iran on 5 January 1896, with a recorded death toll of 800.
1896 Sanriku earthquake
The 1896 Sanriku earthquake (Meiji Sanriku earthquake) struck off northeastern Japan on June 15, 1896, generating the deadliest tsunami in Japanese history and killing about 22,000 people.
1897 Assam earthquake
The 1897 Assam earthquake, also called the 1897 Shillong earthquake, struck northeast India on 12 June 1897, killing 1,542 people and ranking among the largest earthquakes of the nineteenth century.
1905 Kangra earthquake
The 1905 Kangra earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 thrust earthquake that struck the Kangra valley of British India on 4 April 1905, killing about 20,000 people.
1906 Ecuador earthquake
The 1906 Ecuador earthquake was a magnitude 8.8 megathrust quake off Esmeraldas on 31 January 1906, generating a Pacific-wide tsunami that killed roughly 1,000 to 1,500 people.
1906 Meishan earthquake
The 1906 Meishan earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck the Chiayi region of southwestern Taiwan on March 17, 1906, killing more than 1,200 people.
1906 San Francisco earthquake
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake, also called the San Francisco earthquake and fire, was a magnitude 7.9 quake that struck on April 18, 1906, killing about 3,000 people.