The deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century

With the provisional tallies rising by the hour, o earthquake in Turkey and Syria already ranks among ten more polydeceas of the 21st century.

APE-MPE gathered the most deadly earthquakeswith hundreds of thousands dead, of the 21st century.

2004: 230,000 dead in Southeast Asia

At December 26, 2004a magnitude earthquake 9.1 Richter in front of her Sumatra (Indonesia) causes one giant tsunami, killing more than 230,000 people off the coasts of ten Southeast Asian countries, including 170,000 in Indonesia.

The giant waves, starting at 700 km/h, reach up to 30 meters in height.

2010: 200,000 dead in Haiti

At January 12, 2010an earthquake 7 points killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti and left 1.5 million people homeless. The earthquake transforms the capital, Port-au-Prince, into a pile of rubble.

The country was then hit from October 2010 by a cholera epidemic, introduced by peacekeepers from Nepal who had arrived after the earthquake. The epidemic will cause more than 10,000 deaths by January 2019.

2008: 87,000 dead in Sichuan

On May 26, 2006, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on the island of Java killed nearly 6,000 people. The disaster leaves an estimated 38,000 injured and more than 420,000 homeless.

Source: News Beast

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