After the Emirates feel the tremors of deadly Iran earthquake, Arabian Business looks at some of the worst in history.
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IN PICS: World’s worst earthquakes
Picture taken in Castro, on Chiloe Island of collapsed houses after an earthquake struck the area on 21 April 1960. An earthquake measuring 9.5 on Richter Scale struck Santiago and Concepcion, triggering tidal waves and volcanic eruptions. Some 5,000 people were killed and two million made homeless. (Getty Images)
March 28, 1964: Alaska – An earthquake and ensuing tsunami claimed 125 lives and caused about $311 million in property loss. The quake, measuring 9.2, was felt over a large area of Alaska and in parts of western Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada. (Wikimedia)
One of the large cracks on the Tok Cutoff Highway, caused by an 7.9 magnitude earthquake on November 3, 2002 that rocked a sparsely populated area of interior Alaska, near Mentasta. The earthquake, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the United States, knocked out some of the pipelines supports forcing the flow of oil to be shut down. (Getty Images)
A resident walks through his collapsed house at Air Besi in North Bengkulu, in September 2007, a day after a massive 8.4 magnitude earthquake shook the region and sowed panic as far away as East Africa. Huge aftershocks rumbled across Indonesia’s Sumatra island as rescue teams sped to the area. The earthquake killed at least six people. (Getty Images)
Jan 31, 1906: Ecuador – An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck near the coast of Ecuador and Colombia, generating a strong tsunami that killed up to 1,000 people. (Wikipedia)
A young Indian boy makes his way past a building which was destroyed by a massive earthquake five years ago in Bhuj, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, in January 2006. Five years after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake which claimed the life of over 25,000 people and left millions of homeless, the western Indian state of Gujarat was on the route to recovery with large reconstructions. (Getty Images)
A general view of Kamchatka. On Feb 3, 1923, Kamchatka in Russia was struck by a quake with a magnitude of 8.5. (Getty Images)
A man examines his collapsed house in Lais, 17 September 2007. The death toll from a series of major earthquakes striking Indonesia’s Sumatra continued to rise while officials counted more than 15,000 collapsed or damaged buildings. (Getty Images)
