What is the biggest earthquake in the world that shocked everyone?

Often we imagine nature as a kind of "caring grandmother", admiring the flowers, beautiful landscapes and watching the peacefully gurgling brook. The impression is deceptive, since sometimes it shows its true strength.

The most powerful earthquake in the world can serve as an example. More precisely, we will speak about several cases known to us, since different scientists and historians are not very similar in their assessments.

The sad list is crowned by the catastrophe that occurred in India. It happened not so long ago, in 1950. All the old Hindus with horror remember the day when the earth was split, and thousands of people disappeared without a trace in the huge cracks of the earth. There was all this in the city of Assam, which was located on the east coast of the country.

Officially this is the most powerful earthquake in the world in the last millennium. Unfortunately, this event received a sad title for a reason.

In particular, none of the metering devices was able to record its real strength on the Richter scale, since they were simply off scale. Official science later awarded him 9 points, although all surviving Indian scientists from Assam unanimously assert that these figures are false, that in fact this monstrous earthquake was many times stronger.

Their words are fully confirmed by the information of their American colleagues, who, being many thousands of kilometers from the epicenter of the disaster, without any devices recorded its effects, as the tremors of impressive strength reached even the central states! This is really the most powerful earthquake in the world.

On the same day, alarm was sounded in Japan: the ground tremors recorded by the sensors were so strong that the GO forces of the country cut off the tubes, trying to find out in which prefecture such a strong earthquake occurs.

What was their surprise and horror when they found out that the calamity that had occurred in distant India, responded to them with strong subterranean vibrations?

This is the most powerful earthquake in the world, only because of the small size of the city (completely destroyed) cost India a thousand dead. If something similar happened in the same Delhi, the consequences are terrible to imagine ...

Unfortunately, the Chinese were much less fortunate. In 1976, there was something that all historians consider the most terrible cataclysm in the history of modern civilization, meaning an incredible number of victims.

It's about the cataclysm in Hebei Province. Then the power of the underground was only "8.2", which is much weaker than the Indian incident, but only according to official figures, among the dead were about 250 thousand people.

A terrible number. Of course, this is not the most powerful earthquake in history, but analysts believe that the official authorities of China have lowered the figures of losses by 3-4 times.

And what about our country? Are we lucky to live in the most stable place of the planet? Unfortunately, it is not.

The most powerful earthquake in Russia occurred recently - on May 28, 1995 on Sakhalin. This is a black day in our history. On that fateful morning, the force of jerks amounted to 10 points.

Because of the small population, everything could have been dispensed with, but the main force of the strike was taken over by the city of Neftegorsk, which after that ceased to exist. More than two thousand people died.

The most tragic thing is that at the local school that day, graduates gathered. Out of 26 children, only nine remained alive.