The deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century; From Sumatra to Bam – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news

According to the Mehr news agency, quoted by France 24, the devastating earthquake that shook southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria last Monday with a magnitude of 7.7 has left more than 33,000 dead. A tragic disaster that brought the number of deadly earthquakes in the 21st century to 10.

In this report, we review the 10 deadliest earthquakes in the world since 2000 in the order of the number of victims:

2004: Southeast Asia / 230 thousand dead

December 26: A 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Sumatra and a tsunami killed more than 230,000 people across the region, including 170,000 in Indonesia alone.

The waves with a height of 30 meters and a speed of 700 kilometers per hour swallowed everything in their way.

2010: Haiti / 200 thousand dead

January 12: A 7-magnitude earthquake shook Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, and its surrounding areas. A disaster that separated this country from the rest of the world for 24 hours and left more than 200 thousand dead and left 1.5 million people homeless.

Haiti was hit by a cholera epidemic in October of the same year; The disease that spread after the arrival of Nepalese peacekeepers in this country after the earthquake and claimed more than 10 thousand victims.

2008: Sichuan / 87 thousand dead

May 12: A 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province in southwest China killed more than 87,000 people, including 5,335 students.

2005: Kashmir / 73 thousand killed

October 8: A powerful earthquake shook the Kashmir region of Pakistan, killing more than 73,000 people. Also, 3.5 million people were displaced after the earthquake.

2023: Turkey-Syria / 35 thousand dead

February 6: The 7.8-magnitude earthquake near the city of Ghazi Aintab near the Syrian border has left more than 35,000 victims.

This was the biggest earthquake in Turkey in about a century, which was accompanied by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and turned almost all the cities of southeastern Turkey and northern war-torn Syria into a pile of rubble.

2003: Bam / 31 thousand dead

December 26: A 6.6-magnitude earthquake in southeastern Iran destroyed the historical city of Bam and left at least 31,000 dead.

About 80% of the city’s infrastructure was damaged, and the historic Bam citadel, which was once the largest adobe structure in the world, collapsed.

2001: India / 20 thousand dead

January 26: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake in the state of Gujarat in western India killed more than 20,000 people.

2011: Japan / 18,500 killed

March 11: After a massive 9-magnitude earthquake in Japan, a tsunami ripped through and left about 18,500 people dead or missing. In this terrible incident, the waves with the speed of a fighter turned all the residential areas along the northeast coast of Japan into a handful of dirt and sand dunes.

The collapse of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which occurred after the tsunami, contaminated all nearby areas with radioactive radiation and left many cities uninhabited for years and displaced tens of thousands of residents.

2015: Nepal / 9 thousand dead

April 25: A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook central Nepal, triggering avalanches and landslides in the Himalayas and destroying hospitals and schools.

This earthquake killed about 9 thousand people and made millions homeless.

2006: Java / 6 thousand dead

May 26: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the southern coast of Java Island in Indonesia, killing about 6,000 people. More than 420,000 people were displaced and about 157,000 houses were destroyed.