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A 8.6 earthquake struck an area near Tibet in 1950
which destroyed 70 villages with 156 casualties due to landslides. The
Brahmaputra River was blocked causing several villages to be submerged
with a lost of 532 lives 8 days after the earthquake.
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake in 1922 occurred in the
southern part of Atacama Province, central Chile. Locally, a tsunami
caused extensive damage in several coastal Chilean cities that killed
more then 100 people. Another 8.5 earthquake was felt in Indonesia in
1938, with few deaths.
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake is well known throughout the world, but is
neither the largest nor most destructive.
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