Deadliest earthquakes on record

Rank	Name	Date	Location	Fatalities	Magnitude	Comments
1	"Shaanxi"	January 23, 1556	Shaanxi, China	830,000	8
2	"Tangshan"	July 28, 1976	Tangshan, China	255,000 (official)	7.5	Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.
3	"Aleppo"	August 9, 1138	Aleppo, Syria	230,000		Death toll disputed as first mention of 230,000 dead was in the 15th century.
	"Indian Ocean"	December 26, 2004	Off west coast northern Sumatra, Indonesia	230,000	9.3	Deaths from earthquake and tsunami.[3]
5	"Damghan"	December 22, 856	Damghan, Iran	200,000
	"Gansu"	December 16, 1920	Ningxia-Gansu, China	200,000	8.6	Major fractures, landslides.
	"Tsinghai"	May 22, 1927	Tsinghai, China	200,000	7.9	Large fractures.
8	"Ardabil"	March 23, 893+	Ardabil, Iran	150,000
9	"Great Kantō"	September 1, 1923	Kantō, Japan	143,000	7.9	Great Tokyo fire.
10	"Ashgabat"	October 6, 1948	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	110,000	7.3
11	"Kashmir"	October 8, 2005	Kashmir & N.W.F.P, Pakistan	100,000 (estimated) , 80,000 (official)	7.6 or 7.8	3.5 million people homeless, 100,000 feared dead