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Question
Name some Earthquakes which caused great damage.
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Solution
Some Earthquakes which caused serious damage to property and life are :
- Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
- South Carolina Earthquake of August 1886
- The Japan Earthquake of Oct. 28, 1891
- Kanga (Himachal Pradesh) Earthquake of April 1905
- Tokyo (Japan) Sep. 1923
- Quetta 1935
- Bihar 1934
- California Earthquake of April 1966
- Turkey Sep. 1975
- Iran 1968
- Peru 1970
- Tangshan (China) Earthquake of July 1976
- Broach Earthquake of 1970 affected part of Gujrat.
- Earthquake of 1988, had its epicentre near Darbhanga and affected parts of North Bihar, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
- The Bhuj earthquake of 2001 devastated many cities of Gujarat.
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