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1974 Balakot earthquake
The 1974 Balakot earthquake, also known as the Pattan earthquake, struck the Indus Kohistan region of northern Pakistan on 28 December 1974, killing about 5,300 people.
1974 Yunnan And Sichuan Provinces earthquake
The 1974 Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces earthquake, also called the Daguan earthquake, was a magnitude 7.1 quake in Yunnan, China, that killed at least 1,423 people.
1975 Haicheng earthquake
The 1975 Haicheng earthquake was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck Haicheng, Liaoning Province, China, in February 1975, widely regarded as the first major earthquake successfully predicted, allowing an evacuation that sharply reduced casualties.
1975 Lice earthquake
The 1975 Lice earthquake struck Lice in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey, on September 6, 1975, destroying most of the town and killing more than 2,000 people.
1976 Bali earthquake
The 1976 Bali earthquake, also called the Seririt earthquake, was a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck northern Bali, Indonesia on 14 July 1976, killing several hundred people.
1976 Chimaltenango earthquake
The 1976 Chimaltenango earthquake, also called the 1976 Guatemala earthquake, was a magnitude 7.5 quake that struck Guatemala on 4 February 1976, killing about 23,000 people.
1976 Friuli earthquake
The 1976 Friuli earthquake was a magnitude 6.4–6.5 quake that struck northeastern Italy near Gemona del Friuli on 6 May 1976, killing about 989 people and leaving 150,000 homeless.
1976 Irian Jaya earthquake
The 1976 Irian Jaya earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck the remote Highlands of Irian Jaya, now Indonesian Papua, on 25 June 1976, triggering landslides that killed thousands.
1976 Moro Gulf earthquake
The 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck off Mindanao, Philippines, just after midnight on 17 August 1976, generating the deadliest tsunami in Philippine history.
1976 Muradiye earthquake
The 1976 Muradiye earthquake, also called the Çaldıran earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck eastern Turkey on 24 November 1976, killing about 3,840 people.
1977 Bab-Tangol earthquake
The 1977 Bab-Tangol earthquake was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck Kerman province in southeastern Iran on 19 December 1977, devastating three villages near Zarand and killing hundreds.
1977 Bandar Abbas earthquake
The 1977 Bandar Abbas earthquake, known in seismological literature as the Khurgu earthquake, struck mountains north of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on March 21, 1977, killing 152 people.
1977 Naghan earthquake
The 1977 Naghan earthquake was a magnitude 6 earthquake that struck Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari in the High Zagros of western Iran on 6 April 1977, killing 348 people and injuring about 200.
1977 Sunda Islands earthquake
The 1977 Sunda Islands earthquake, also called the 1977 Sumba earthquake, was a magnitude 8.3 normal-faulting earthquake off Sumba Island, Indonesia, on August 19, 1977, generating a damaging tsunami.
1977 Vrancea earthquake
The 1977 Vrancea earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 intermediate-depth earthquake that struck Romania on March 4, 1977, killing 1,578 people, destroying about 35,000 buildings, and reshaping Romanian seismic design codes.
1978 Tabas earthquake
The 1978 Tabas earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck eastern Iran on 16 September 1978, destroying the town of Tabas and killing about 20,000 people.
1978 Thessaloniki earthquake
The 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake was a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck northern Greece on 20 June 1978, killing about 45 people and collapsing an eight-story apartment building.
1979 Colombia earthquake
The 1979 Colombia earthquake, known as the Great Tumaco earthquake, was a magnitude 8.1 megathrust quake off Colombia's Pacific coast near Tumaco whose tsunami killed 454 people.
1979 Khorasan earthquake
The 1979 Khorasan earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in northeastern Iran on 14 November 1979 that destroyed villages and killed 171 to 280 people.
1980 Avellino earthquake
The 1980 Avellino earthquake, also known as the Irpinia or Irpinia-Basilicata earthquake, was a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck Campania and Basilicata in southern Italy on 23 November 1980.
1980 El Asnam earthquake
The 1980 El Asnam earthquake was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck El Asnam (now Chlef) in northern Algeria on 10 October 1980, killing about 2,633 people.
1980 Huajuapan de León earthquake
The 1980 Huajuapan de León earthquake struck southern Mexico on 24 October 1980, damaging about 90 percent of buildings in Huajuapan de León and killing more than 50 people.
1980 Nepal earthquake
The 1980 Nepal earthquake was a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck Bajhang District in far-western Nepal on 29 July 1980, killing at least 125 people.
1981 Gilgit earthquake
The 1981 Gilgit earthquake was a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck the Gilgit region of northwestern Kashmir, Pakistan, on 12 September 1981, killing at least 220 people.
1981 Golbaft earthquake
The 1981 Golbaf earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Golbaf in Kerman province, Iran, on 11 June 1981, killing hundreds to thousands of people.
1981 Jayawijaya Mts earthquake
The 1981 Jayawijaya Mts earthquake was a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on 19 January 1981, triggering landslides that killed about 1,300 people.
1981 Sirch earthquake
The 1981 Sirch earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Kerman Province, southeastern Iran, on 28 July 1981, killing about 1,500 people and leaving 50,000 homeless.
1982 Chiapas earthquake
The 1982 Chiapas earthquake was the sequence of earthquakes preceding and following the eruption of El Chichón volcano in northern Chiapas, southern Mexico, from 28 March to 4 April 1982.
1982 Hindu Kush earthquake
The 1982 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck near Nahrīn in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan, on December 16, 1982, killing 455 people.
1982 Yemen earthquake
The 1982 Yemen earthquake was a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck Dhamar province in North Yemen on December 13, 1982, killing thousands and displacing about 700,000 people.