APPENDIX 23              MAJOR WORLD EARTHQUAKES: 1900-2004


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Appendix for the paper The Number 56 & Earthquake/Volcanic Cycles


Kazuya Fujita
of the Michigan State University presented a listing of 45 biggest earthquakes occurring around the world between 1900 to 2004. Of this total figure 15 happened within the 8.5 months to August 22 of those 9/56 years in Table B this appendix (significant p < .01). 


Table A      MAGNITUDES OF THE LARGEST EVENTS: 1900 - 2004

Rank

Date

Location

Mw

1a

1960.05.22

Chile Mainshock (a)

9.6

1b

1960.05.22

Chile "Precursor" (a)

9.5

2

1964.03.28

Prince William Sound, Alaska

9.2

1c

1960.05.22

Chile "Afterslip"(a)

9

3

2004.12.26

Northern Sumatra

9

4

1952.11.04

Kamchatka

9

5

1965.02.04

Aleutian Islands

8.7

6

1950.08.15

Assam, India

8.7

7

1933.03.02

Sanriku, Japan

8.6

8

1957.03.09

Aleutian Islands

8.6

9

1906.01.31

Ecuador-Colombia

8.6

10

1963.10.13

Etorofu, Kurile Islands

8.5

11

1938.02.01

Banda Sea

8.5

12

1906.08.17

Valparaiso, Chile

8.5

13

1923.02.03

Kamchatka

8.5

14

2001.06.23

Near coast of Peru

8.4

15

1958.11.06

Etorofu, Kurile Islands

8.4

16

1922.11.11

Atacama, Chile

8.4

17

1952.03.04

Tokachi-oki, Japan

8.4

18

1977.08.19

Sumbawa, Indonesia

8.3

19

2003.09.25

Hokkaido, Japan

8.3

20

1924.06.26

Macquarie Ridge

8.3

21

1920.12.16

Kansu, China

8.3

22

1994.10.04

Etorofu, Kuriles

8.3

23

1905.07.09

Mongolia

8.3

24

1905.07.23

Mongolia

8.3

25

1946.04.01

Aleutian Islands

8.3

26

1979.12.12

Colombia-Ecuador

8.3

27

1923.09.01

Kanto (Tokyo), Japan

8.3

28

1968.05.16

Tokachi-oki, Japan

8.3

29

1938.11.10

Alaska

8.3

30

1919.04.30

Tonga

8.3

31

1994.06.09

Bolivia

8.3

32

1950.12.09

Argentina

8.3

33

1959.05.04

Kamchatka

8.2

34

1940.05.24

Peru

8.2

35

1918.08.15

Mindanao, Philippines

8.2

36

1996.02.18

West Irian, Indonesia

8.2

37

1989.05.23

Macquarie Ridge

8.2

38

1949.08.22

Queen Charlotte Island

8.2

39

1928.06.17

Oaxaca, Mexico

8.2

40

1918.09.07

Urup, Kurile Islands

8.2

41

1969.08.11

Shikotan, Kurile Islands

8.2

42

1960.05.21

Chile Foreshock

8.2

43

1966.10.17

Northern Peru

8.2

44

1970.07.31

Columbia

8.2

45

1924.04.14

Philippines

8.2

(a) Taken as one event.
Years in bold contained major worldwide earthquakes in the 8.5 months ending August 22 of those years in Table B.
Source: Kazuya Fujita

 


Table B         MAJOR WORLD EARTHQUAKES & 9/56 YEAR CYCLES: 1900 - 2005

    Sq 52 Sq 05     Sq 32 Sq 41 Sq 50 Sq 03 Sq 12 Sq 21
              1904

1913

1922

1931

1940

1949

1906
**
1915 1924
**

1933

1942 1951 1960
**

1969

1978

1987

1996

 2005
1962 1971 1980

1989

1998  2007                 

The 56 year sequences are separated by an interval of 9 years.
Years in bold contained major worldwide earthquakes in the 8.5 months ending August 22 of those years in the table.
Source of Raw Data:
Kazuya Fujita