Earthquake update

On the internet, I found a list of major earthquakes since 1923. What is strange is that there were no major quakes from 1939 to 1976, but since then there has been almost one major quake every year. The worst was in China in Tangshan with almost quarter of a million killed.

I know people like Gordon-Michael Scallion predict massive earth changes but so many of his predictions have failed to happen, almost all of them really, so it is quite hard to take him seriously. But there might be some kind of disturbance of the earth’s balance, that when viewed over a long period of time like eighty years, shows a trend.

I found the list quite interesting, here it is below.

Major Earthquake List
compiled by The Associated Press

Date	Location	Magnitude	Number Killed
Dec. 26, 2003	Southeastern Iran	6.5	at least 20,000
May 1, 2003	Southeastern Turkey	6.4	167
Feb. 24, 2003	Western China	6.3 or 6.8	at least 266
June 22, 2002	Northwestern Iran	6	at least 500
March 25, 2002	Northern Afghanistan	5.8	up to 1,000
Jan. 26, 2001	India	7.9	at least 2,500 killed. Estimates put death toll as high as 13,000
Sept. 21, 1999	Taiwan	7.6	2,400
Aug. 17, 1999	Western Turkey	7.4	17,000
Jan. 25, 1999	Western Colombia	6	1,171
May 30, 1998	Northern Afghanistan and Tajikistan	6.9	as many as 5,000 killed
May 10, 1997	Northern Iran	7.1	1,500
Jan. 17, 1995	Kobe, Japan	7.2	more than 6,000
Sept. 30, 1993	Latur, India	6.0	as many as 10,000
June 21, 1990	Northwest Iran	7.3-7.7	50,000
Dec. 7, 1988	Northwest Armenia	6.9	25,000
Sept. 19, 1985	Central Mexico	8.1	more than 9,500
Sept. 16, 1978	Northeast Iran	7.7	25,000
July 28, 1976	Tangshan, China	7.8-8.2	240,000
Feb. 4, 1976	Guatemala	7.5	22,778
Dec. 26, 1939	Erzincan province, Turkey	7.9	33,000
Jan. 24, 1939	Chillan, Chile	8.3	28,000
May 31, 1935	Quetta, India	7.5	50,000
Sept. 1, 1923	Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan	8.3	at least 140,000