Strongest earthquakes ever recorded — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of strongest earthquakes ever recorded, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Moment magnitude, instrumental record only — so nothing before about 1900 is here, however violent it was. The scale is logarithmic: a 9.0 releases roughly thirty times the energy of an 8.0, not ten per cent more.
Ranked from published, countable figures.
100 entries, in order.
- Valdivia 1960
- Alaska 1964
- Sumatra 2004
- Tohoku 2011
- Kamchatka 1952
- Maule 2010
- Ecuador-Colombia 1906
- Rat Islands 1965
- Assam-Tibet 1950
- Indian Ocean 2012
- Nias 2005
- Andreanof Islands 1957
- Atacama 1922
- Banda Sea 1938
- Kuril Islands 1963
- Sumatra 2007
- Kamchatka 1923
- Kuril Islands 2006
- Chile 1939
- Tonga 1917
- Colima 1932
- Sanriku 1933
- Aleutian Islands 1946
- Kamchatka 1959
- Peru 1974
- Peru 2001
- Sumatra 2010
- Solomon Islands 2007
- Sumatra 2009
- Java 2006
- Chile 2015
- Chiapas 2017
- Papua New Guinea 2000
- Vanuatu 2009
- Samoa 2009
- Fiji 2018
- Bolivia 1994
- Argentina 1949
- Sea of Okhotsk 2013
- Sea of Okhotsk 2008
- Kermadec Islands 1976
- Kermadec Islands 1986
- Tonga 2006
- Vanuatu 1999
- Santa Cruz Islands 2013
- Sumatra 2000
- Sumatra 2016
- Sumatra 2012 Aftershock
- Nicobar 2005
- Andaman 2004
- Alaska 2018
- Alaska 1938
- Alaska 1965
- Aleutian 1996
- Kodiak 2018
- Mexico 1985
- Mexico 1932
- Mexico 1995
- Guerrero 1957
- Oaxaca 2020
- Guatemala 1976
- Nicaragua 1972
- El Salvador 2001
- Costa Rica 2012
- Panama 1991
- Haiti 2010
- Dominican Republic 1946
- Jamaica 1907
- Puerto Rico 1918
- Cuba 1932
- Turkey 1939
- Turkey 1999
- Turkey 2023
- Iran 1990
- Iran 2003
- Iran 1978
- Pakistan 1935
- Pakistan 2005
- Pakistan 2013
- Nepal 2015
- Bhuj 2001
- Latur 1993
- Uttarkashi 1991
- Sikkim 2011
- Assam 1897
- Tangshan 1976
- Sichuan 2008
- Haiyuan 1920
- Yushu 2010
- Lushan 2013
- Kobe 1995
- Niigata 2004
- Kanto 1923
- Hokkaido 1993
- Noto 2024
- Christchurch 2011
- Kaikoura 2016
- Napier 1931
- Messina 1908
- Lisbon 1969
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