what country had the most earthquakes?
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i didn't find numbers for any country, but i guess it's the United States according to USGS
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north side of india, mainly kashmir which is on border of pakistan.\nPeople in kashmir felt mild earthquake shocks even after 1 month. Many villages in Kashmir region got completely destroyed.\nIt was felt in whole northern region, including, Delhi, HAryana, and punjab, but they were not affected much.
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The USGS lists this earthquake as the 6th most destructive earthquake in terms of lives lost that is on record in the world. You may also find this by using the province name of  Tsinghai. Alternate spellings are: (Wade-Giles)  Ch'ing-hai,  (Pinyin)  Qinghai. Also, most search engines combine the name into one word, Nanshan. These varied spellings of Chinese in English are maddening when searching for information. You might do better searching in Chinese if possible.\n\nHere is a list of Chinese search engines, including Google China, Yahoo China, and Baidu. \nhttp://www.searchenginecolossus.com/China.html\n\nHere's one academic article in Chinese that I found:\nhttp://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/qikan/periodical.Articles/zgdz/zgdz2004/0404/040405.htm\n\n\nHere is the listing on US Geological Survey:\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/most_destructive.php\nHere is a page on USGS that lists most of the major earthquakes for comparison:\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/top10.php\n\nI found a few vague references on china.org.cn at:\nhttp://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Search_Qry_E.Run_Query?p_qry=earthquake+1927\n\nThis is a tough one. I tried one major University library and didn't find much I liked. You can search most major libraries online, for example:\nThe University of Texas\nhttp://utdirect.utexas.edu/lib/utnetcat/\nThe University of California Los Angeles\nhttp://www2.library.ucla.edu/\nThe University of Southern California\nhttp://www.sc.edu/library/catalog/\nIf you find something that looks like it might be helpful you can go to a public library and request an interlibrary loan. \n\nGood luck.
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The earthquake originated in the Indian Ocean just north of Simeulue island, off the western coast of northern Sumatra. The resulting tsunami devastated the shores of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries with waves up to 30 m (100 ft). It caused serious damage and deaths as far as the east coast of Africa, with the furthest recorded death due to the tsunami occurring at Rooi Els in South Africa, 8,000 km (5,000 mi) away from the epicentre. In total, eight people in South Africa died due to abnormally high sea levels and waves.
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cambodia\n\ntrust me on this one :P
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USA has the highest per 100,000\n1. usa 34.2 \n2. england & wales 14.69\n3. France 13.38\n4. S. korea 4.38\n5. spain 3.23\n\nand according to Crisis Connectors.org, the US has the worlds higest rape rate.
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Bolivia.\n\nThe richest is Brazil.
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the largest earthquake in the states was about an 8.3. the epicenter was near new madrid, missouri. it hit in 1812... before the richter scale was invented, so we aren't 100% sure what it would measure on that scale.\n\nthe two aftershocks were more destructive than the original quake, though they were not as strong.
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ALL nations have some natural hazards.  Anything from flooding, earthquake, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, take you pick.  Mongolia is VERY unlikely to ever have a hurricane, by the way
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These links provide earthquake info to the countries that border the Nazca Plate.\n\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world.php?regionID=8&region=Chile\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world.php?regionID=18&region=Peru\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world.php?regionID=72&region=Ecuador\n\nThis link gives you access to a database which you can select specific time periods and regions.  Selecting South America and August through September produces a huge list.  You can then cross reference that to the countries.\n\nhttp://neic.usgs.gov/neis/epic/epic_global.html
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this site is the best\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/
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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.15, triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on  December 26, 2004 that killed approximately 230,000 people (including 168,000 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.[7] The tsunami killed people over an area ranging from the immediate vicinity of the quake in Indonesia, Thailand and the north-western coast of Malaysia to thousands of kilometres away in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and even as far as Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Africa. The disaster prompted a huge worldwide effort to help victims of the tragedy, with billions of dollars being raised for disaster relief.\n\nUnlike in the Pacific Ocean, there was no organized alert service covering the Indian Ocean. This was in part due to the absence of major tsunami events between 1883 (the Krakatoa eruption, which killed 36,000 people) and 2004. In light of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, UNESCO and other world bodies have called for a global tsunami monitoring system.
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I think this is more an opinionated question.  But the least corrupted country i have been to is Iceland.  People there do not carry guns or lock their doors, no one has murdered anyone in the last 20 years.
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It's definitely not the USA- Mexico is a lot tougher than us. I think it is Japan. (Because of the amount of people and the size of their country).
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Yes. \n\nThe earthquake starts when the two massive land masses on each side of the fault line break loose, as the Masses are trying to move and build up tremendous pressure in the fault (The actual crack between land Masses) builds and finally releases when the land Masses suddenly jolt apart causing an oscillation  resulting in an earthquake. \n\nGood question, \n\nDarryl S.
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9.5 magnitude, Chile, 1960. Biggest since 1900, modern measures.\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php\n\nNo. Faults or potential faults would rupture before they could build up enough energy to have a magnitude 20 quake.  Maybe a huge meteor impact could cause such an earthquake. It hasn't happened in recorded history.
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Magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960.\n\nMore than 2,000 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile; tsunami caused 61 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damage in Japan; 32 dead and missing in the Philippines; and $500,000 damage to the west coast of the United States.