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  // Author - Brenden West; updated 3-18-03

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worstquakesofcentury.sPubDate = "12/16/2005 9:23:40 PM GMT";
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worstquakesofcentury.appHeader = "fact file|Deadliest earthquakes";
worstquakesofcentury.appDeck = "Earthquakes that caused the most loss of life since 1900.";
worstquakesofcentury.appFooter = "Source: Associated Press, Reuters, <a href=http://www.usgs.gov>United States Geological Survey</a>, MSNBC research<br>1 - Many were killed in the Great Tokyo Fire caused by the earthquake.<br>2 - Iran&#146;s official Islamic Republic News Agency put the Bam quake at 6.3 on the Richter Scale.";
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worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("255,000","7.8 to 8.2","Tangshan, China","1976");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("200,000","8.3","Xining, China","1927");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("200,000 (est)","8.6","Gansu, China","1920");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("170,000\+ ","9.0","Off Sumatra's west coast","2004");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("143,000<sup>1</sup>","8.3","Kwanto, Japan","1923");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("110,000","7.3","Turkmenistan","1948");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("87,000","7.6","Pakistan/India/Afghanistan","2005");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("70-100,000 (est)","7.2","Italy, Messina","1908");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("70,000","7.6","Gansu, China","1932");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("66,000","7.9","Northern Peru","1970");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("50,000","7.3 to 7.7","Northwest Iran","1990");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("30-60,000","7.5","Pakistan, Quetta","1935");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("35,000","7.7","Iran, Gilan","1990");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("33,000","7.9","Erzincan province, Turkey","1939");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("31,000","6.6<sup>2</sup>","Bam, Iran","2003");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("28,000","8.3","Chillan, Chile","1939");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("25,000","6.9","Turkish-USSR border","1988");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("25,000","7.7","Northeast Iran","1978");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("22,778","7.5","Guatemala","1976");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("20,000","8.6","Santiago/Valparaiso, Chile","1906");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("19,000","8.6","Kangra, India","1905");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("15,613","7.8","Turkey","1999");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("12,000","8.1","Central Asia","1907");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("10,700","8.4","India/Nepal","1934");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("9,500","8.1","Michoacan, Mexico","1985");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("6,000\+","7.2","Kobe, Japan","1995");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("45,000","9.5","Chile","1960");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("5,000\+","7.3","Algeria","1980");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("5,000","6.1","Northeast Afghanistan","1998");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("2,990","8.9","Sanriku, Japan","1933");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("2,500","7.1","Varto, Turkey","1966");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("2,300","6.7","Turkey","1975");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("2,000\+","6.8","Taiwan","1999");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,700\+","6.8","Algeria","2003");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,530","8.7","India/Assam/Tibet","1950");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,500","7.1","Northern Iran","1997");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,330","8.4","Tonankai, Japan","1946");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,300","6.9","Turkey","1983");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,300","6.0","Turkey","1946");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,171","6","Western Colombia","1999");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,100","7.3","Gediz, Turkey","1970");
worstquakesofcentury.rows[i++] = new Array("1,000","8.9","Colombia","1906");

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