Earthquakes caused more than 22,000 deaths worldwide in 1999. More than 17,000 people were killed as a result of the magnitude 7.4 Izmit, Turkey, earthquake on Aug. 17. A typical year for earthquakes consists of 18 major temblors (magnitude 7.0 to 7.9) and one great quake (8.0 or higher), according to the USGS, which also estimates that several million earthquakes occur in the world each year. Many go undetected because they hit small or remote areas.
Here
are some startling statistics:
1998
Landslides And El Nino Storm
63
landslides across California
35 counties declared federal disaster areas
1500 families evacuated
200 structures destroyed
$22 million paid by Federal Government to landslide victims
Floods
Hurricane
Floyd: September 17, 1999
- Largest
peacetime evacuation in the history of the United States
- 1.8
Million Households in nine states were without power
28 deaths in 24 hours
- Estimated
property and agricultural damage in the billions
History's
Costliest Quakes
Turkey
- August 17, 1999
- 7.4
Magnitude
- 16,000
People Dead/Injured
- Damage
In Dollars Still Unknown
Taiwan
- September, 1999
- 7.6
Magnitude
- 2100
People Killed
- 8100
Injured
- $5
To $10 Billion Reconstruction Damages
California
Quakes:
Long
Beach, 1923
Loma
Prieta Quake On October 17, 1989
Sylmar,
1971
- 65
Deaths
- $500
Million Property Damage
Oakland,
1989
Northridge
Quake On January, 1994
- 6.7
Magnitude
- 50
Deaths
- $40
Billion In Damage
- Most
Costly Natural Disaster In The History Of The U.S.
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