Below is a list of some of the world`s strongest earthquakes in the past 30 years.
April 25, 2015: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal kills almost 8,900 people and destroys about half a million homes. A massive aftershock with a magnitude of 7.3 follows in May, killing dozens more.
August 11, 2012: Twin earthquakes with a magnitude 6.3 and 6.4 leave 306 dead and more than 3,000 injured near the Iranian city of Tabriz.
March 11, 2011: Nearly 18,900 are killed when a tsunami triggered by a massive magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake slams into the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant.
October 23, 2011: An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocks eastern Turkey, leaving more than 600 dead and at least 4,150 injured.
January 12, 2010: Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits Haiti, leaving between 250,000 and 300,000 dead.
April 14, 2010: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Yushu county in northwest China`s Qinghai province leaving 3,000 people dead and missing.
May 12, 2008: A earthquake measuring 8.0 hits China`s southwest province of Sichuan, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing.
May 27, 2006: A powerful earthquake in Indonesia`s Yogyakarta region kills 6,000 and leaves 1.5 million homeless.
October 8, 2005: An earthquake of 7.6 kills more than 75,000 people, the vast majority of them in Pakistan`s North West Frontier Province and the Pakistani-administered zone of Kashmir state. Some 3.5 million are displaced.
March 28, 2005: An earthquake on Indonesia`s Nias island off Sumatra leaves 900 dead.
December 26, 2004: A massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra island triggers a tsunami which kills 220,000 in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.
December 26, 2003: A earthquake measuring 6.7 hits the Iranian city of Bam, killing at least 31,884 people and injuring 18,000.
January 26, 2001: A massive 7.7 earthquake hits the western Indian state of Gujarat, killing 25,000 people and injuring 166,000.
September 30, 1993: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake hits the western Indian state of Maharashtra, killing 7,601.
October 20, 1991: A earthquake measuring 6.6 hits the Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh state in India, killing 768.
August 20, 1988: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits eastern Nepal, killing 721 people in Nepal and at least 277 in the neighbouring Indian state of Bihar.
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