The death toll from the Sendai earthquake continues to climb.
NHK reported that as of March 22, 2011, the official death toll had been raised to more than 8,600 with more than 13,000 missing. The final toll is expected to reach nearly 20,000.
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According to historical records, approximately 15,000 people died in the Xian, China earthquake that occurred in 1556.
Chinese estimate that, in total, 69,181 people were killed.
There were also 18,498 people listed as missing, and 374,176 people were injured.
The Shaanxi earthquake in 1556 is considered the deadliest earthquake in recorded history, with estimates of over 800,000 fatalities. It caused widespread destruction in the Shaanxi, Henan, and Gansu provinces in China.
Approx. 6400 people died in the Kobe earthquake most suffocated or were burnt to death in the flames that spread through Kobe on the 17th January 1995. So far the amount of people that have died in the Japanese earthquake is 10,000 people.
The Shaanxi earthquake in China on January 23, 1556 had the largest number of recorded deaths. The number of deaths was between 820,000 and 830,000 people due to a magnitude 8.0 quake in a densely populated area.
The Izmit earthquake that occurred in Turkey in 1999 resulted in the deaths of around 17,000 people.
The 2010 Chile earthquake, not hurricane, resulted in approximately 525 fatalities.