1. 2007
   2005
2. 2011
   2018

Measuring 7.6 on the magnitude scale, the 2005 earthquake that hit Kashmir, Pakistan claimed the lives of at least 86,000 people. The devastation occurred in the midst of heightened tensions over regional barrier disputes among Indian and Pakistani leaders.

1. 2001
   1988
2. 1981
   2000

One of India's largest states, Gujarat was hit hardest by a 7.9 earthquake on Friday, January 26, 2001. Other districts of India's northwestern region suffered as a result of the quake, which was the strongest to hit India in half a century.

1. 1992
   2002
2. 2015
   1996

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. Mud and brick houses of the Newars, Kathmandu Valley's first inhabitants, suffered the most devastation. It took only 40 seconds for the quake to demolish almost an entire village.

1. 2000
   2013
2. 1998
   2006

Aftershocks from the May 27 quake rippled as far as 250 miles east of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital city. A 6.3-magnitude foreshock hit the Special Province of Yogyakarta at Java Island. Nearly 200,000 Indonesians were left homeless because of the wreckage that ensued.

1. 2002
   1982
2. 2010
   2005

The 2010 7.1 quake hit Qinghai province, which lies 20 miles away from the mostly Tibetan county of Yushu. Eighty-five percent of the homes in the nearby district of Jiegu collapsed. The fiercest of the quake's six aftershocks measured a magnitude of 6.2.

1. 2005
   1919
2. 2018
   1908

The target of the massive March 28, 2005 earthquake was a seabed off the coast of Sumatra, an Indonesian island. The tiny islands of Simeulue and Nias sustained most of the damage.

1. 2019
   2002
2. 2009
   2011

Padang has a population of 900,000 people and dots Sumatra's west coast. Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, and Singapore were also rocked by the September 30 quake in Sumatra.

1. 2005
   2010
2. 2016
   2001

The death toll was comparatively high in Chile's second-largest city of Concepcion after a February 2010 quake rattled southern Chile. Chilean cabinet officials neglected to sound a tsunami warning before a tremendous wave flooded the region.

1. 2006
   2014
2. 2016
   2003

The April 2016 tremblor registered a magnitude of 7.8 and chose the coastal region of Manabi as its epicenter. Meanwhile, in the capital city of Quito, tremors caused signposts to fall along major roads, triggering panic among drivers.

1. 2007
   2000
2. 2013
   2019

The August 2007 quake that hit Peru's southern coast left some 17,000 people homeless and many residents without power in its aftermath. Witnesses reported that moments before a cathedral in San Clemente collapsed, its bell vibrated an eerie chime.

1. 2017
   2004
2. 1763
   1982

The 2017 earthquake off of Mexico's Pacific coast measured 7.1 in magnitude. Over 40 buildings in Mexico City collapsed from tremors that emerged 76 miles southeast of the capital in the town of Raboso.

1. 1945
   2013
2. 1789
   1523

Officials promptly evacuated Moscow, which lies over 4,000 miles west of the 8.3-magnitude quake's origin 373 miles deep into the Okhotsk Sea. Moscow residents in several buildings reported shaking.

1. 1991
   2003
2. 2013
   1983

Japan's northern island of Hokkaido is located roughly 600 miles from Tokyo. A little over a month after the September convulsion, Tokyo was hit with a 5.0 that shut down three runways at Haneda airport.

1. 1972
   2015
2. 1883
   2002

The epicenter of the 2002 Alaska shock occurred 270 miles north of Anchorage and 90 miles south of Fairbanks, along the Denali Fault. Anchorage was affected by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake's strong jolts.

1. 1755
   2017
2. 1991
   2000

The southwest-centered Portugal quake rattled the southern and western areas of the country. Considered one of the longest earthquakes in history, the Lisbon episode totaled three tremblors and lasted approximately nine minutes.

1. 1983
   1850
2. 1679
   1762

In 1762, a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the coastal town of Sitakundu in Bangladesh. Experts anticipate that the area will be hit with a major quake in the region once every 100 years. One in five buildings in the nearby capital city of Dhaka is vulnerable to quakes.

1. 1994
   1773
2. 1542
   2018

The affected building, known as the "Tower of David," featured in the television show "Homeland," had been abandoned and occupied by squatters. The 7.3-magnitude August 21 quake originated off of Venezuela's east coast.

1. 2005
   1963
2. 1985
   2011

Because they were rendered unsafe, multiple buildings in Skopje, North Macedonia's capital city, had to be demolished after the 1963 quake. A great migration into the capital city occurred after it was rebuilt.

1. 1997
   2013
2. 1981
   1872

Voice of Lebanon radio station announced that the 2013 shock was felt at 3:00 a.m. It was one of many jolts the country experienced since a more serious 1956 quake that hit the area, destroying 6,000 homes.

1. 2006
   1991
2. 1983
   1997

An earthquake that measured 7.6 on the Richter scale rattled the Costa Rican destination of Limon on April 22, 1991. The tremblor destroyed 10,000 homes, and the Caribbean nation sustained $160 million in damage.

1. 1880
   1904
2. 1956
   2018

The Great Zagreb earthquake of 1880 destroyed the cathedral of Mary's Ascension. Planners rebuilt the cathedral in Croatia's capital city using stone from the old building. It took 22 years to erect the new neogothic temple, which was completed in 1902.

1. 1874
   1906
2. 1621
   1967

Some scholars insist that the May 5, 1906, San Francisco earthquake was several hundred times stronger than the atomic bomb catastrophe that rocked Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Quake tragedy struck San Francisco at 5:10 a.m. in 1906, and a massive fire erupted one minute later.

1. 1773
   2004
2. 1945
   1969

Windows rattled and shattered in Georgetown, the capital city in the world-famous Cayman Islands, after a 2004 earthquake ripped through the island. Experts say the 6.7 shake was the strongest of several tremors that struck at the time.

1. 2010
   1764
2. 2005
   1973

More than one million Haitians were moved to tent cities after losing their homes during the 2010 tremblor. Many of the tents were posted in Leogane, which was near the quake's epicenter.

1. 1946
   1978
2. 2003
   2012

To commemorate the 450th anniversary of Santo Domingo, the urn of Christopher Columbus was opened at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo on August 4, 1946 at 1:00 p.m. Seconds later, the island nation was rattled by its worst quake of the 20th century.

1. 2011
   2003
2. 1992
   2004

The epicenter of the Cairo 5.9-magnitude quake was approximately 44 miles southwest of the city. Islamic monuments that suffered most of the damage trailed across Sharia Saliba, a major stretch of road in the area.

1. 2015
   1845
2. 2003
   1972

The 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua demolished close to 80 percent of the capital's infrastructure. The National Cathedral in the city was just one of the quake's concrete casualties.

1. 1795
   2015
2. 1862
   1908

The 1908 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southern Italy, the Ionian Sea and the Messina Straits on December 28 at 5:20 a.m. and lasted for at least 30 seconds. Major trembles emanated from under the Messina Straits.

1. 2006
   1999
2. 2010
   1772

The 1999 foreshock trapped thousands of people in Turkey's largest western cities; scores of people sustained injuries in Istanbul, alone. The country's most devastating quake, measuring 7.9 in magnitude, rocked Turkey's Erzinican province on December 26, 1939.

1. 1881
   1976
2. 2006
   1603

China's 1976 quake catastrophe erupted in the country's northeast region in the city of Tangshan. Several decades after the disaster razed most of its buildings, the city is comprised of some of the most contemporary structures you will find in the country.

1. 2005
   1804
2. 1912
   1978

Social scientists have determine that the 1978 earthquake in Tabas continues to have a rippling effect on the desert town. Recent data has shown that since the quake, literacy in the region decreased by at least 65 percent compared to culturally similar districts.

1. 2017
   2006
2. 1976
   1995

The February 4, 1976 Guatemalan earthquake caused ground breakage that spread for 143 miles. The same ground depression that triggered the quake approximately 100 miles from Guatemala City runs through Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador.

1. 1879
   1990
2. 2001
   1740

With an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, the 7.6-magnitude quake hit San Salvador at 11:35 a.m. Razed buildings and dangerous landslides plagued the region in its wake. So powerful was the San Salvador tremblor that structures shook 600 miles away in Mexico City.

1. 1935
   2016
2. 2009
   1968

Geologists speculate that the 7.7-magnitude Quetta earthquake emanated from what they've classified as India's western transform system. Scientists designate structural systems of the earth to assist in the study and prediction of geological phenomena.

1. 1923
   2008
2. 1986
   2011

Scientists have estimated that energy released during the 1923 Toyko earthquake was 300 times more powerful than that of the Hiroshima bomb explosion of 1945. Tremors that emerged along the Kanto Plain during the massive foreshock measured as high as 8.3 on the Richter scale.