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1983 Erzurum earthquake
The 1983 Erzurum earthquake, also called the Horasan-Narman earthquake, was a magnitude 6.8 to 7.1 strike-slip quake that struck northeastern Turkey on 30 October 1983.
1983 Guinea earthquake
The 1983 Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck northwestern Guinea, West Africa, on 22 December 1983, killing several hundred people in a region with little recorded seismicity.
1983 Popayán earthquake
The shallow 1983 Popayán earthquake, magnitude 5.5, struck Popayán, Colombia, on 31 March 1983, killing about 300 people and destroying or damaging more than 14,000 houses, triggering Colombia's first seismic building code.
1985 Chile earthquake
The 1985 Chile earthquake was a magnitude 8.0 megathrust earthquake that struck off central Chile on March 3, 1985, killing 177 people and damaging Valparaíso, Santiago, and surrounding regions.
1985 Mexico City earthquake
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, also called the Great Mexican Earthquake, was a magnitude 8.1 quake off Michoacán on 19 September 1985 that devastated Mexico City, killing thousands.
1986 El Salvador earthquake
The 1986 El Salvador earthquake struck the capital, San Salvador, on October 10, 1986, killing about 1,500 people and causing damage near a quarter of the country's GDP.
1987 Napo earthquake
The 1987 Napo earthquake was a pair of earthquakes that struck Napo Province, Ecuador, on March 5, 1987, triggering landslides that killed about 1,000 people.
1988 Armenian earthquake
The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also called the Spitak earthquake, struck northern Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, on December 7, 1988, killing about 25,000 people.
1988 Nepal earthquake
The 1988 Nepal earthquake, also called the Udayapur earthquake, struck eastern Nepal and Bihar, India, in August 1988, killing about 1,000 people and damaging more than 64,000 buildings.
1988 Yunnan earthquake
The 1988 Yunnan earthquake was a magnitude 7.6 and 7.2 doublet that struck Lancang and Gengma counties, China, on 6 November 1988, killing 748 people.
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, also called the World Series earthquake, was a magnitude 6.9 quake that struck the San Francisco Bay area on October 17, 1989, killing 63 people.
1989 Tajikistan earthquake
The 1989 Tajikistan earthquake, also called the Gissar earthquake, was a moderate magnitude 5.3 quake near Dushanbe, Tajikistan, whose mudflows buried villages and killed 274 people.
1990 Luzon earthquake
The 1990 Luzon earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck central and northern Luzon, Philippines, on 16 July 1990, killing 1,283 people and causing damage of more than P18.7 billion.
1990 Moyabamba-Riojo earthquake
The 1990 Moyabamba-Riojo earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Peru's Alto Mayo valley on 29 May 1990, killing about 70 people and damaging thousands of adobe houses.
1990 Rasht earthquake
The 1990 Rasht earthquake, known as the Manjil–Rudbar earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 quake in northern Iran that killed an estimated 13,000 to 40,000 people.
1991 Badakhstan earthquake
The 1991 Badakhstan earthquake, also called the 1991 Hindu Kush earthquake, was a magnitude 6.4 to 6.9 quake that struck northeastern Afghanistan in 1991, killing about 530 people.
1991 Chamoli earthquake
The 1991 Chamoli earthquake was the Uttarkashi earthquake of 19 October 1991, a magnitude 6.8 thrust event in the Garhwal Himalaya of northern India that killed 768 people.
1991 Georgia (country) earthquake
The 1991 Georgia earthquake, known as the Racha earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Soviet Georgia on 29 April 1991, killing about 270 people.
1991 Manila earthquake
The 1991 Manila earthquake was shaking felt in Manila, Philippines, on June 15, 1991, generated by the climactic eruption of Mount Pinatubo, whose largest event measured magnitude 5.7.
1992 Egypt earthquake
The 1992 Egypt earthquake, also called the Cairo or Dahshur earthquake, struck near Dahshur southwest of Cairo on 12 October 1992, killing at least 490 people.
1992 Erzincan earthquake
The 1992 Erzincan earthquake was a magnitude 6.8 strike-slip earthquake that struck Erzincan in eastern Turkey on 13 March 1992, killing about 541 people and destroying much of the city center.
1992 Flores earthquake
The 1992 Flores earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake off the north coast of Flores Island, Indonesia, on December 12, 1992, generating a tsunami that killed roughly 2,500 people and devastated Maumere and Ende.
1992 Nicaragua earthquake
The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Nicaragua's Pacific coast on September 1, 1992, generating a tsunami up to 10 meters high that killed at least 170 people.
1993 Hokkaido earthquake
The 1993 Hokkaido earthquake, formally the 1993 Hokkaido Nansei-oki earthquake, was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off southwest Hokkaido, Japan, on 12 July 1993, generating a tsunami that devastated Okushiri Island.
1993 Latur-Osmanabad earthquake
The 1993 Latur-Osmanabad earthquake, also called the Killari earthquake, was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck near Killari in Maharashtra, India, killing roughly 8,000 to 11,000 people.
1994 Cauca earthquake
The 1994 Cauca earthquake was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck the Páez River basin in southwestern Colombia on 6 June 1994, killing about 1,100 people.
1994 Java earthquake
The 1994 Java earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 quake off southeastern Java, Indonesia, on June 2, 1994, that generated a tsunami killing more than 200 people.
1994 Mascara earthquake
The 1994 Mascara earthquake struck Mascara province in northwestern Algeria on 18 August 1994, killing 171 people and leaving thousands homeless, Algeria's deadliest earthquake since the 1980 El Asnam earthquake.
1994 Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley on January 17, 1994, killing 33 people and causing about 40 billion dollars in damage.
1994 Southern Sumatera earthquake
The 1994 Southern Sumatera earthquake, also called the Liwa earthquake, was a magnitude-6.8 strike-slip earthquake near Liwa, southern Sumatra, on February 15, 1994, killing at least 207 people.