"Several of the other threads have been hijacked unfortunately by religious undertones."
What do you mean?
Year Location Magnitude Persons killed
1976 Tangshan, China 7.5 655,000
1927 Qinghai, China 7.7 200,000
1923 Tokyo, Japan 7.9 143,000
1908 Messina, Italy 6.9 110,000
1920 Northern China 8.3 100,000
1932 Gansu, China 7.6 70,000
1970 Peru 8.0 54,000
1990 Iran 7.9 50,000
1935 Quetta, Pakistan 8.1 30,000
1939 Erzincan, Turkey 7.7 30,000
Year Location Magnitude Persons killed
1960 Chile 9.3 22,000
1964 Alaska 9.2 130
1952 Kamchatka 9.0 0
1965 Aleutian Islands 8.7 0
1922 Chile 8.7 0
1957 Aleutian Islands 8.6 0
1950 Himalayan region 8.6 8,500
1906 Ecuador 8.6 500
1963 Kurile Islands 8.6 0
1923 Alaska 8.5 0
You must have thought this was the Marxist Dictatorship web forum. Sorry, but you're not even close.