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What are the ten biggest earthquakes in the history of the earth?
1. 1556 Wenchuan earthquake in China: 8.0, causing more than 80,000 deaths.

2. 1730 Chattislam earthquake in India: magnitude 8.7, causing more than 30,000 deaths.

3. 1755 Lisbon earthquake: 8.7, causing more than 654.38+10,000 deaths.

4. 1868 kamakura earthquake in Japan: 8.4, causing more than 220,000 deaths.

5. 1906 San Francisco earthquake: 7.8, causing more than 30,000 deaths.

6. 1920 Jiujiang earthquake in Jiangxi, China: 8.6, causing more than 300,000 deaths.

7. 1923 Tokyo earthquake: magnitude 7.9, causing more than10.4 million deaths.

8. 1960 Sarajevo earthquake in Chile: 9.5, causing16,000 deaths.

9. 1964 Alaska earthquake: 9.2, causing 130 deaths.

10.2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: 9. 1 magnitude, causing more than 2.3 million deaths.