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Losses when occurred |
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| Rank |
Date |
Location |
Overall |
Insured |
Fatalities |
| 1 |
Jan. 17, 1994 |
USA: CA: Northridge, Los Angeles, San Fernando
Valley, Ventura, Orange |
$44,000 |
$15,300 |
60 |
| 2 |
Feb. 27, 2010 |
Chile: Central; South. Includes Tsunami |
30,000 |
8,000 |
520 |
| 3 |
Sep. 3, 2010 |
New Zealand: Christchurch |
6,500 |
5,000 |
0 |
| 4 |
Jan. 17, 1995 |
Japan: Prefecture Hyogo, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto |
100,000 |
3,000 |
6,430 |
| 5 |
Dec. 26, 2004 |
Sri Lanka; Indonesia; Thailand; India; Bangladesh;
Myanmar; Maldives; Malaysia. Includes tsunami (2) |
10,000 |
1,000 |
220,000 |
| 6 |
Oct. 17, 1989 |
USA: CA: Loma Prieta, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Oakland Berkeley, Silicon Valley |
10,000 |
960 |
70 |
| 7 |
Oct. 23, 2004 |
Japan: Honshu, Niigata, Ojiya, Tokyo, Nagaoka,
Yamakoshi (2) |
28,000 |
760 |
45 |
| 8 |
Sep. 21, 1999 |
Taiwan: Nantou, Hsinchuang, Taichung, Puli, Touliu,
Yun-lin, Chunghwa |
14,000 |
750 |
2,400 |
| 9 |
Dec. 28, 1989 |
Australia: New South Wales, Newcastle, Sydney |
1,200 |
670 |
13 |
| 10 |
Aug. 17, 1999 |
Turkey: Izmit, Istanbul, Golcuk, Kocaeli, Sakarya
Yalova |
12,000 |
600 |
17,100 |
(1) As of February 2011.
(2) Multiple earthquakes.
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