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Deaths from Earthquakes in 2002

Deaths from Earthquakes

Deaths from Earthquakes in 2002
Date
UTC
Region Magnitude Number
Killed *
2002/01/09 Tajikistan 5.3 3
2002/01/10 Near N Coast of New Guinea 6.7 1
2002/01/17 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4.7 Several (7)
2002/01/21 Turkey 4.6 1
2002/01/22 Crete, Greece 6.2 1
2002/02/03 Western Turkey 6.5 44
2002/02/17 Southern Iran 5.4 1
2002/03/03 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan 7.4 166
2002/03/05 Mindanao, Philippines 7.5 15
2002/03/25 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan 6.1 1000
2002/03/31 Taiwan Region 7.1 5
2002/04/01 Eastern New Guinea Region, P.N.G. 5.3 36
2002/04/12 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan 5.9 50
2002/04/22 Near Coast of Peru 4.4 1
2002/04/24 Serbia, Yugoslavia 5.7 1
2002/04/24 Western Iran 5.4 2
2002/04/25 Georgia 4.8 5
2002/05/15 Taiwan 6.2 1
2002/05/18 Lake Victoria Region 5.5 2
2002/06/22 Western Iran 6.5 261
2002/09/06 Sicily, Italy 6.0 2
2002/09/08 Near North Coast of New Guinea, P.N.G. 7.6 4
2002/09/13 Andaman Islands, India Region 6.5 2
2002/10/10 Near the North Coast of Irian Jaya 7.6 8
2002/10/24 Democratic Republic of Congo 6.2 2
2002/10/31 Southern Italy 5.9 29
2002/11/01 Northwestern Kashmir 5.4 11
2002/11/02 Simeulue Indonesia 7.4 3
2002/11/20 Northwestern Kashmir 6.3 19
2002/12/14 Gansu, China 5.6 2
Total 1685

* Includes "missing and presumed dead"; from 2002 Significant Earthquakes of the World


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