Ten tremendous temblors:
- Great Kanto earthquake (1923, magnitude ~8.2)
- Great Mexican earthquake (1995, magnitude 8.1)
- Baku earthquake (2000, magnitude 7.0)
- Fukuoka Prefecture Western Offshore earthquakes (2005, magnitude 7.0)
- Charleston earthquake (1886, magnitude ~6.9)
- Tangshan earthquake (1976, magnitude ~7.9)
- Düzce earthquake (1999, magnitude 7.2)
- Indian Ocean earthquake (2004, magnitude ~9.2)
- New Madrid earthquake (1811, magnitude ~8.0)
- Ancash earthquake (1970, magnitude 7.5)
Today is the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.