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1957 Hazanderan earthquake
The 1957 Hazanderan earthquake, also known as the Sangchal earthquake, was a magnitude 7.1 quake that struck the High Alborz mountains of northern Iran on 2 July 1957.
1960 Agadir earthquake
The 1960 Agadir earthquake struck Agadir, Morocco, on 29 February 1960, almost destroying the city and killing roughly 12,000 to 15,000 people, Morocco's deadliest earthquake.
1960 Lar earthquake
The 1960 Lar earthquake (زمینلرزه ۱۳۳۹ لار) struck Lar in Fars province, southern Iran, on 24 April 1960, destroying most of the city and killing several hundred people.
1960 Puerto Montt earthquake
The 1960 Puerto Montt earthquake, usually known as the Valdivia earthquake, struck Chile on 22 May 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest instrumentally recorded, devastating Puerto Montt and Valdivia.
1960 Valdivia earthquake
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake, also called the Great Chilean earthquake, was a magnitude 9.5 quake off southern Chile on May 22, 1960, the largest ever recorded.
1962 Buyin-Zara earthquake
The 1962 Buyin-Zara earthquake, also spelled Buin Zahra, was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Qazvin, Iran, on 1 September 1962, killing roughly 12,000 people.
1963 Libya earthquake
The 1963 Libya earthquake struck near Barce, today Al-Marj, in northeastern Libya on 21 February 1963, destroying the town, killing several hundred people, and leaving 10,000 homeless.
1963 Skopje earthquake
The 1963 Skopje earthquake was a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck Skopje, Yugoslavia, on 26 July 1963, killing 1,070 people and destroying much of the city.
1964 Alaska earthquake
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also called the Good Friday earthquake, was a magnitude 9.2 megathrust quake centered in Prince William Sound that killed 131 people on March 27, 1964.
1965 Central Chile earthquake
The 1965 Central Chile earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck near La Ligua, Chile, on 28 March 1965, killing hundreds through the El Cobre tailings dam failure.
1966 Hebei earthquake
The 1966 Hebei earthquake, known in Chinese as the Xingtai earthquake (邢台地震), killed 8,064 people in a 21-day swarm that struck southern Hebei, China, in March 1966.
1966 Peru earthquake
The 1966 Peru earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 thrust earthquake off Callao on October 17, 1966, killing about 125 people and generating a Pacific-wide tsunami.
1966 Tashkent earthquake
The 1966 Tashkent earthquake (Toshkent zilzilasi) was a shallow magnitude 5.2 quake that struck central Tashkent on 26 April 1966, leaving about 300,000 people homeless.
1966 Varto earthquake
The 1966 Varto earthquake was a destructive magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Varto in eastern Turkey on 19 August 1966, killing 2,529 people and leaving about 100,000 homeless.
1967 India earthquake (Koynanagar)
The 1967 Koynanagar earthquake was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck near the Koyna Dam in western Maharashtra, India, on 10 December 1967, killing more than 200 people.
1967 Venezuela earthquake
The 1967 Venezuela earthquake, known in Venezuela as the Caracas earthquake, was a magnitude 6.3 to 6.6 earthquake that struck off the northern coast on July 29, 1967, killing over 200 people.
1968 Dasht-E-Bayaz earthquake
The 1968 Dasht-e-Bayaz earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 strike-slip earthquake that struck Khorassan province in northeastern Iran on August 31, 1968, killing an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 people.
1968 Ferdow earthquake
The 1968 Ferdow earthquake was a pair of earthquakes, magnitude 6.3 and 5.5, that struck near Ferdows in eastern Iran on 1 and 4 September 1968, killing about 900 people.
1968 Manila earthquake
The 1968 Manila earthquake, known in the Philippines as the Casiguran earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 quake that killed about 270 people, 268 of them in the Ruby Tower collapse.
1968 Sicily earthquake
The 1968 Sicily earthquake, also called the Belice earthquake, struck the Belice river valley in western Sicily in January 1968, killing about 370 people and destroying fourteen towns.
1968 Tambu earthquake
The 1968 Tambu earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake and tsunami that struck the coast of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on August 14, 1968, killing about 200 people.
1969 Parasanga earthquake
The 1969 Parasanga earthquake, more commonly called the 1969 Majene earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 thrust earthquake that struck Majene on Sulawesi, Indonesia, on 23 February 1969, killing at least 64 people and generating a tsunami.
1969 Yangjiang earthquake
The 1969 Yangjiang earthquake (阳江6.4级地震) was a magnitude 6.4 intraplate earthquake that struck the coast of Guangdong Province, China, killing 33 people and collapsing more than 10,000 houses.
1970 Ancash earthquake
The 1970 Ancash earthquake was a magnitude 7.7–8.0 earthquake off north-central Peru on May 31, 1970, killing roughly 70,000 people, the worst Western Hemisphere disaster to that time.
1970 Gediz earthquake
The 1970 Gediz earthquake, also called the 1970 Kütahya-Gediz earthquake, struck Kütahya province in western Turkey on 28 March 1970, killing about 1,086 people and forcing Gediz's relocation.
1970 Tonghai earthquake
The 1970 Tonghai earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 strike-slip earthquake that struck Yunnan Province, China, on 5 January 1970, killing 15,621 people; the government suppressed the news until 2000.
1971 Bingol earthquake
The 1971 Bingöl earthquake was a magnitude 6.7 strike-slip earthquake that struck Bingöl in eastern Turkey on 22 May 1971, destroying most of the city and killing 755 people.
1972 Nicaragua earthquake
The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake was a destructive shallow earthquake that struck the capital, Managua, on December 23, 1972, killing about 10,000 people and destroying most of the city center.
1972 Qir earthquake
The 1972 Qir earthquake, also called the Ghir or Qir-Karzin earthquake, struck Fars Province in southern Iran on 10 April 1972, killing roughly 5,000 people.
1973 Veracruz earthquake
The 1973 Veracruz earthquake, also called the Orizaba earthquake, struck Veracruz and Puebla in southeast Mexico on 28 August 1973, killing roughly 400 to 1,200 people.