Gilgamesh on 13 March 2011
Earthquakes in Japan
1923: 7.9-magnitude, 143000 deaths
1927: 7.6-magnitude, 3000 deaths
1933: 8.4-magnitude, 3000 deaths
1943: 7.4 magnitude, 1200 deaths
1944: 8.1-magnitude, 1000 deaths
1945: 7.1-magnitude, 2000 deaths
1946: 8.1-magnitude, 1400 deaths
1948: 7.3-magnitude, 3800 deaths
1995: 6.9-magnitude, 5500 deaths
2011: 8.9-magnitude, 700 deaths so far.
So for having it's biggest earthquake in the last 100 years the death toll is amazingly good.
