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1995 Kobe earthquake
The 1995 Kobe earthquake, known in Japan as the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster, struck Kobe on January 17, 1995, killing about 6,400 people and causing over $100 billion in damage.
1995 Neftegorsk earthquake
The 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake, a magnitude 7.6 strike-slip quake, struck northern Sakhalin Island, Russia, on 28 May 1995, destroying the oil town of Neftegorsk and killing about 2,000 people.
1996 Biak earthquake
The 1996 Biak earthquake was a magnitude 8.2 thrust earthquake that struck near Biak Island, Indonesia, on 17 February 1996, generating a tsunami that killed at least 110 people.
1996 Lijiang earthquake
The 1996 Lijiang earthquake, a magnitude 7.0 event, struck Lijiang County in Yunnan Province, China, on February 3, 1996, killing 309 people and damaging the Old Town.
1997 Ardabil earthquake
The 1997 Ardabil earthquake, also known as the Golestan-Ardebil earthquake, struck northwestern Iran on February 28, 1997, killing about 1,000 people and destroying villages on the slopes of Sabalan volcano.
1998 Badakhshan earthquake
The 1998 Badakhshan earthquake was a destructive magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck northern Afghanistan on May 30, 1998, killing about 4,000 people and leaving 70,000 homeless.
1998 Dushanbe earthquake
The 1998 Dushanbe earthquake was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck Takhar Province, Afghanistan, on 4 February 1998, destroying Rostaq and killing at least 2,323 people.
1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake
The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 quake that struck off Aitape on 17 July 1998, triggering a tsunami that killed at least 2,200 people.
1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake
The 1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck Colombia's Eje Cafetero coffee region on 25 January 1999, killing about 1,185 people and damaging more than 100,000 buildings.
1999 Bolu-Duzce-Kaynasli earthquake
The 1999 Bolu-Duzce-Kaynasli earthquake, known in most literature as the Düzce earthquake, was a magnitude 7.1 to 7.2 earthquake that struck Düzce and Bolu in northwestern Turkey on 12 November 1999.
1999 Istanbul earthquake
The 1999 Istanbul earthquake, known as the Kocaeli or İzmit earthquake, was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck northwestern Turkey on 17 August 1999, killing 17,127 people.
1999 İzmit earthquake
The 1999 İzmit earthquake, also called the Kocaeli earthquake, was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck northwestern Turkey on August 17, 1999, killing about 17,000 people.
1999 Nantou earthquake
The 1999 Nantou earthquake, known in Taiwan as the 921 earthquake or Chi-Chi earthquake, struck central Taiwan on September 21, 1999, killing 2,456 people and collapsing more than 10,000 buildings.
2001 El Salvador earthquake
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck within the subducting Cocos plate off El Salvador on January 13, 2001, killing 944 people; a February 6.6 shock brought the total to almost 1,200.
2001 Gujarat earthquake
The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, also called the Bhuj earthquake, was a magnitude 7.7 quake in Kutch, India, on 26 January 2001 that killed roughly 13,800 people.
2001 Nisqually earthquake
The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, or Nisqually Quake, was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Washington State on February 28, 2001, causing about $2 billion in damage.
2002 Ab Garm-Abhar-Avaj-Shirin Su earthquake
The 2002 Ab Garm-Abhar-Avaj-Shirin Su earthquake, also called the Changureh (Avaj) earthquake, was a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck northwest Iran on June 22, 2002, killing several hundred people.
2002 Baghlan earthquake
The 2002 Baghlan earthquake was a magnitude 6.1 quake that destroyed most of Nahrin, Afghanistan, on 25 March 2002, killing an estimated 600 to 1,200 people.
2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes
The 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes were two deadly earthquakes in northern Afghanistan in March 2002, killing several hundred people and destroying the town of Nahrin.
2002 Rwanda earthquake
The 2002 Rwanda earthquake was a sequence of tectonic earthquakes felt across Rwanda during the January 2002 Nyiragongo eruption, killing 45 people and destroying hundreds of buildings.
2003 Bachu earthquake
The 2003 Bachu earthquake, also called the Bachu-Jiashi earthquake (巴楚-伽师地震), struck Bachu and Jiashi counties in western Xinjiang, China, on February 24, 2003, killing 268 people and collapsing about 70,000 rooms of housing.
2003 Bam earthquake
The 2003 Bam earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Bam in southeastern Iran on 26 December 2003, destroying the city and its ancient citadel and killing tens of thousands.
2003 Bingöl earthquake
The 2003 Bingöl earthquake was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck Bingöl province in eastern Turkey on May 1, 2003, killing 176 people, including 84 students in a collapsed boarding school dormitory.
2003 Boumerdès earthquake
The 2003 Boumerdès earthquake, also called the Zemmouri earthquake, was a magnitude 6.8 quake that struck northern Algeria on 21 May 2003, killing about 2,300 people.
2004 Al Hoceima earthquake
The 2004 Al Hoceima earthquake was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck Al Hoceima in northern Morocco on 24 February 2004, killing about 600 people and destroying over 2500 buildings.
2004 Chūetsu earthquake
The 2004 Chūetsu earthquake, formally the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake, was a magnitude 6.8 quake that struck Niigata, Japan, on 23 October 2004, killing 68 people.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, also called the Boxing Day tsunami, was a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake off Sumatra that killed about 230,000 people.
2005 Kashmir earthquake
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake, also called the South Asia Earthquake, struck near Muzaffarabad in northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005, killing more than 80,000 people.
2005 Nias earthquake
The 2005 Nias earthquake, also called the Nias–Simeulue earthquake, was a magnitude 8.6 quake off northern Sumatra on 28 March 2005 that killed more than 1,300 people.
2005 Zarand earthquake
The 2005 Zarand earthquake, also called the Dahuiyeh earthquake, was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that killed 612 people in Kerman province, Iran, in February 2005.