| 21st Century Quakes
Quakes have been recorded as long as time has been recorded. The 21st Century has already seen a number of killer events. Due to population density, seismological advances, and prevalence of cell videos and cameras, 21st Century disasters will be highly-chronicled and witnessed by global audiences.
Three of recent history's most destructive quakes erupted in the past few years: the 2004 Indian Ocean event that killed more than 200,000 people in 14 countries, the devastating 2010 Haiti quake and the nightmarish events of March, 2011 in Japan.
Thousands of people from far-flung places have died in quakes in recent years. Some of the deadlier earthquakes of the 21st Century (by year):
2001: Gujarat (India), Peru, El Salvador
2002: Hindu Kush, Turkey, Iran, Italy
2003: Iran, Algeria, China, Mexico
2004: Indian Ocean tsunami, Morocco, Niigata (Japan)
2005: Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran
2006: Java
2007: Chincha Alta (Peru), Solomon Islands, Sumatra
2008: China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Lake Kivu (Congo)
2009: Sumatra, Java, Samoa, L'Aquila (Italy), Costa Rica
2010: Haiti, Chile, China, Turkey, Sumatra
2011: Japan, New Zealand, Myanmar, Spain, Fiji, Turkey, Peru
The United States has been spared a deadly quake of those proportions, but has experienced damaging events nonetheless:
2001: Washington State
2002: Alaska
2003: Alabama, California, Virginia
2004: LaSalle County (Illinois)
2006: Hawaii, Gulf of Mexico (west of Florida coast)
2007: Alaska, California
2008: Wabash Valley seismic zone (southeast Illinois)
2009: California
2010: California, Indiana, Sandwich Fault (Illinois) 2011: Arkansas, Missouri, Mineral (Virginia), Alaska, Oklahoma
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