地球每分钟都要发生十几次地震,但绝大多数是微小地震,偶尔发生在人口稠密地区的大地震,则形成巨大灾害。据统计,本世纪死亡万人以上的地震已达27次之多,财产损失数以百亿美元计。为帮助广大地学爱好者和科研教学工作者了解震害梗概,现将六十年来世界上有据可查的重大地震(里氏震级8死亡万人以上)简表如下。 More than a dozen earthquakes happen every minute of the earth, but the vast majority are minor earthquakes, occasionally occurring in densely populated areas, causing great disasters. According to statistics, the number of earthquakes that killed more than 10,000 people in this century has reached 27 times, with tens of billions of dollars in property losses. To help vast numbers of geosciences and scientific researchers understand the synopsis of damage, the following is a brief summary of the major evidence-based earthquake in the world in the past 60 years (8 million deaths in the Richter scale).