25 Worst Earthquakes In History

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1. Earthquakes are not destructive! Building Inferior buildings on a fault line should not lay blame to earthquakes! Earthquakes are natural and should not be controlled! The earth is alive and just like our skin as it sheds dead skin the earth as well, slowly (If to compare is like one second of our life is 2000 years) The answer is simple, Don't build on Fault lines or at the base of a Volcano. If you do then make sure you have an exit strategy and expect to loose all your belongings.

2. I live in western NC, and in the mid 2000's, I think, I was just sitting still on the couch one day when I felt a real light one… It was enough to jiggle my surroundings a bit, but not enough to knock anything down… I think that was due to one in Tennessee somewhere, if I'm not mistaken…

3. #16 That was March11, 2011 not March11, 2001.

4. Dang, people just do not like comments on this channel
   It's a bit lonely out here….

5. Waaaah I can't beleive I missed this one X.x shame on me!!!!! Liking the vid and sorry for missing it.

6. The Chile earthquake. What size atomic bombs? This quake was not felt in Hawaii. It generated a tsunami that struck the islands. Mostly Hilo.

7. There are so many mistakes in this video. Did they even do their research?

8. Hawaii is 435 miles from Chile? I don't think so.

9. Intensity = Strength of Shaking

   Magnitude = Total amount of energy released.

10. Long story short..stay away from China and Japan.

11. Top 25 Most Devastating Tornadoes; please? This video made me want one about tornadoes.

12. You get the Dates wrong.

13. Would have thought the New Madrid quakes qualified .

14. We’re all stunned when there is an earthquake. I live in San Francisco, we will have a huge earthquake one day. Maybe tomorrow ?? Be prepared.

15. i just need to know how….100's of years ago did they know what magnitude the earthquake was?? is it a guess??? does it go by damage? i know they didn't have the knowledge that we have now….i need to know…it's irritating me!!! LOL

16. 21st of July 365 a magnitude 8,5-8,7 quake hit the Mediterranean Sea west of Krete, rising the island 6,5 meters high. the tsunami that caused, brought death and destruction in the countries to the east Mediterranean, tossed huge boats on the roofs of houses and drowned around 5000 of people. the quake and tsunami affected also Israel, Egypt, Italy, Sicily and Grece. for the next 200 years the 21st of July was celebrated as "The day of terror"

    8th of August 1303 in the Mediterranean sea between the island of Krete end Rhodes had a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, caused a tsunami of 5-10 meters high, destroyed many structures, killed many people and triggered a domino of historic events. the tsunami in about one hour reached the city of Alexandria and Middle East. the quake gave the opportunity to Turkes to storm the island of Rhodes.

    Alaska, 1964 a quake 9,2 on the Richter scale hit the country near town Valdez, lasted almost 6 minutes and caused 130 or more deaths, many of them in California because of lots of tsunamis that the quake caused and reached to the very south of the Latin America to Chele and also hit Hawaii, Japan and Australia. in the town of Valdez the waves reached 60 meters and wiped out the town from the map. the seismic waves were felt many thousand Km away, even in New York city. survivors from that day say that the quake was so intense, they could see the seismic waves with their own eyes.

17. You left out Alaska, 1964.

18. i was in the loma prieta earthquake october 17, 1989, a 6.9 richter scale. it wasn't too bad where i was, but i had to slap back 6 fish bowls while it went on. living in california there are a lot of earthquakes.
    the weird thing was that i was driving home from work and the sky looked odd and i thought, "hm, earthquake weather". i got home, let the dog out, let the dog in and had just closed the glass door when the earthquake hit. i thought i'd done something wrong. . .
    another time, i was at work and had just put more paper in the xerox machine and shut the door when an earthquake hit. the machine started rocking and i looked at my coworker and asked if the machine always did that with new paper in it. he looked at me like i'd done something really, really wrong, then we noticed the overhead lights were swinging, so we knew it was an earthquake. that was funny!

19. Earthquakes are just nature’s way of saying “Move ya dumbass.”

20. I lived in California so I went through many.

21. Makes me glad I live in the Midwest, we just put up with Tornadoes. At least there you can go in the basement.

22. The Tohoku earthquake was 3-11-2011, not 2001.

23. My 1st earthquake happened On October 17th 1989 . I was in San Francisco for the World Series. Where I sat there was chunks of concrete that I took with photocopies of my ticket and sold chunks with a photocopy for $75 each. That was my only World Series game I attended

24. #10 You said visited like it came for Christmas eve dinner bearing gifts!

25. What about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake-Or Northridge in the mid 90's?

26. 1000th like

27. I've only been through 3 earthquake's.

28. You forgot Alaska Earthquake in 1964
    And Kamchatka Earthquake in 1952

29. My guess is there must be a major fault under or close to china

30. I was in an earthquake in Korea and honestly I didn't really know what was happening I the most that we experience was our table shaking

31. Sitting up late one night about 2am I felt and watched as the ground beneath my house started to move in waves, fair dinkum, you could see the movement in the floor… Esk in Australia is where it came from by the news station…. Very different feeling….

32. Aside from the incorrect date of the earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on March 11th, 2011; the earthquake that struck Izmit, Turkey happened on August 17th, 1999. When it comes to studying earthquakes, getting the date right is of great importance. I was slightly miffed that you forgot the January 17th, 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan. This was the worst earthquake to strike Japan in the 20th century and was- at the time- considered to be the worst disaster Japan experienced after World War II. It was a magnitude 7.2 on the Richter Scale and lasted for twenty seconds. In that time frame; traditional Japanese houses in the suburbs collapsed, fires raged across the city, modern high-rise office buildings were tilted at drunken angles, and potent symbol of the city's plight was a section of the Hanshin Expressway tipped onto its side.

33. This guy definitely eats Chinese pussy!!!

34. You guys missed the earthquake that followed the asteroid impact wiping out most of the dinosaurs. It measured approximately 11.4 on the Richter scale…

35. Meanwhile I'm gonna be over here in Wisconsin where we've only had one earthquake in the state and that was long before I was born

36. 25 worst or expensive hurricanes / natural diaster/ or tornadoes

37. I grew up in the San Fransisco Bay Area, so, YES!!! LOTS of earthquakes.. The worse one was The LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE on Oct. 17th, 1989 (happened during the World Series) … It had a magnitude of 6.9 (7.2 ms) and the intensity of IX .. (9) .. The shaking lasted several minutes. Soooo intense and scary AF!!!!!

38. #25 is the worst or #1 is the worst. They were all bad just want to understand least to most horrible or other way around?

39. What about the earthquake in Alaska in the 1960s? Or the 2011 Mineral, Virginia earthquake? The affects of the Mineral earthquake were felt throughout a good portion of the eastern seaboard. I live in Fairfax County, Virginia, and had friends (and family) in the state of Georgia say they felt the affects of it. Many of the ones that were mentioned in this video were in the eastern hemisphere. Perhaps you could make a part 2 to this video.

40. I experienced the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, it was like we were in the II World War, it was horrible, thousands of people dead. Many buildings and houses down. No electricity, no food in the supermarkets, no phones, and the sound of the ambulances at night, when everything was dark was scaring. No water for many days. It was just horrible.

41. You may have goofed a bit there Mike, the Tohoku quake was in 2011, as you corrected later

42. Wow! Ring of Fire!

43. 1989 quake outside San Francisco. Having lived in an Earthquake zone for decades, I just went into prep mode.

44. Do a Video on the most Dangerous bodies of Water or Caves

45. I was very impressed with your expert pronunciation of the names of the foreign cities. Great job!

46. I live in British Columbia Canada I’ve felt three quakes here scared the living shit out of us

47. @list25 when I was very young living in Guam we had an earthquake happen shortly after a typhoon scared the hell out of me

48. Guess the 89 earthquake in Northern California didn't make it even close to these? Or the Alaskan quake?

49. How close do you think Hawaii is to Chile? I lived in Hawaii and it's only close to Hawaii.

50. Wait, Richter Scale? Are you sure? The Richter Scale has not been used by the USGS in a long time, it is almost exclusively used for small regional quakes below 5.0. The scale used for the last several decades has been the Moment Magnitude Scale. Unfortunately, many journalists still report using the words Richter Scale while that is not what the USGS uses: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/magnitudes_moment_magnitude_explained

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