.svg)     Approximate epicenters of the earthquakes in 2010
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| Strongest magnitude | 8.8 Mw  Chile | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadliest | 7.0 Mw  Haiti160,000 deaths | ||
| Total fatalities | 164,627[1] | ||
| Number by magnitude | |||
| 9.0+ | 0 | ||
← 2009 2011 → | |||
Earthquakes in 2010 resulted in nearly 165,000 fatalities. Most of these were due to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which caused an estimated 160,000 deaths,[2] making it the 8th deadliest earthquake in recorded history. Other deadly quakes occurred in China, Indonesia or Turkey. The 2010 Chile earthquake registered 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale,[3] ranking it as the 6th strongest earthquake since 1900. The tsunami associated with the Chile earthquake caused tsunami advisories and warning across the entire Pacific Ocean rim, also known as the Ring of Fire.
- ^ "USGS 2010 earthquake death, revised to 316,000 Jan 2011 Haitian Gov't stats". United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 2015-01-24. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ Kolbe, Athena R.; Hutson, Royce A.; Shannon, Harry; Trzcinski, Eileen; Miles, Bart; Levitz, Naomi; Puccio, Marie; James, Leah; Noel, Jean Roger; Muggah, Robert (2010). "Mortality, crime and access to basic needs before and after the Haiti earthquake: A random survey of Port-au-Prince households". Medicine, Conflict and Survival. 26 (4): 281–297. doi:10.1080/13623699.2010.535279. PMID 21314081. S2CID 26000167.
- ^ Milyukov, V (2015). "The Free Oscillations of The Earth Excited By Three Strongest Earthquakes of the Past Decade According To Deformation Observations". Physics of the Solid Earth. 51 (2): 176–190. Bibcode:2015IzPSE..51..176M. doi:10.1134/S1069351315010097. S2CID 129004353 – via Academic Search Complete.