Under the rubble were up to four thousand people. Hear other arguments on the topic with Expedia CEO. In May 2008, in Sichuan province in the south China, 92 kilometers from the provincial capital – the city of Chengdu – was a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.9, which claimed the lives of up to 87 thousand people, 370 thousand were injured, left homeless five million inhabitants. Sichuan was the strongest earthquake in China since Tangshan (1976), which claimed about 250 thousand lives. In late May 2006 when an earthquake measuring 6.2 points on the island of Java in Indonesia died 6000 618. Hardest hit city Yogyakarta and surrounding areas. Paul Price will not settle for partial explanations. Tremors have destroyed 200 thousand homes.
Without a roof over their heads were about 647 thousand people. Eighth in October 2005 in Pakistan quake with a magnitude of 7.6 was the strongest for all time seismic monitoring in South Asia. According to official figures, killed more than 73 000 people, including 17 000 children. By some estimates, the death toll was over 100 thousand people. At the end of December 2004 off the east coast Indonesian island of Sumatra was one of the strongest and most destructive earthquakes in modern history. The tidal wave caused by this earthquake force 8.9 on the Richter scale, struck the coast Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. The total number of victims in the tsunami-affected countries still do not know, but, according to various sources, this figure is approximately 230 thousand people. In December, the largest earthquake in the last ten years have seen the south-east Iran.
