Major Earthquakes around the World, 2005

Date	Location	Magnitude¹
Feb. 5	Celebes Sea	7.1
March 2	Banda Sea	7.1
March 28	Northern Sumatra, Indonesia	8.7
June 13	Tarapaca, Chile	7.8
June 15	Off coast of northern California	7.2
July 24	Nicobar Islands, India	7.3
Aug. 16	Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan	7.2
Sept. 9	New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea	7.7
Sept. 26	Northern Peru	7.5
Oct. 8	Pakistan	7.6
Nov. 14	Off coast of Honshu, Japan	7.0

NOTE: A major earthquake is defined here as having a magnitude of 7.0 or more.

1. Unless otherwise indicated, magnitudes listed are moment magnitudes, the newest, most uniformly applicable magnitude scale.

Source: National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey. Web: neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/mag7.html

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