Editing Lists of earthquakes (section)

==Costliest earthquakes==
{{Main|List of costliest earthquakes}}

This is the top ten major earthquakes by the US dollar value of property (public and private) losses directly attributable to the earthquake.

{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header"
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Event
! Location
! scope="col" | Magnitude
! scope="col" | Property damage

|-
! scope="row" | 1
| [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]]
| {{Flag icon|Japan}} [[Japan]]
| data-sort-value="9.0" |9.1
| $360 billion<ref>{{cite web|last=Zhang|first=Bo|title=Top 5 Most Expensive Natural Disasters in History|work=AccuWeather.com|publisher=News & Video|url=http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/47459/top-5-most-expensive-natural-d.asp|access-date=March 29, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110331005015/http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/47459/top-5-most-expensive-natural-d.asp|archive-date=March 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Victoria Kim|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 21, 2011|title=Japan damage could reach $235&nbsp;billion, World Bank estimates|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fgw-japan-quake-world-bank-20110322,0,3799976.story|access-date=March 21, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110331005023/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fgw-japan-quake-world-bank-20110322,0,3799976.story|archive-date=March 31, 2011}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 2
| [[Great Hanshin earthquake|1995 Great Hanshin earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|Japan}} [[Japan]]
| data-sort-value="6.9" |6.9
| $200 billion<ref>{{cite book|title=Emergency response: lessons learned from the Kobe earthquake|last=Tierney|first=Kathleen|publisher=University of Delaware Disaster Research Center|year=1997}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 3
| [[2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes]]
| {{Flag icon|Turkey}} {{Flag icon| Ba'athist Syria}} [[Turkey]]<br>[[Syria]]
| data-sort-value="7.8" |7.8
| $163.6 billion<ref>{{cite news|title=Deprem bölgesinde fatura borçlarının silinmesi için süre uzatıldı|agency=Milat Gazetsi|date=22 August 2023|url=https://www.milatgazetesi.com/haber/deprem-bolgesinde-fatura-borclarinin-silinmesi-icin-sure-uzatildi-4201/|access-date=9 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Political failure has killed people in Syria before and after the earthquakes|publisher=Counsil for Arab-British Understanding|date=10 April 2023|url=https://www.caabu.org/news/article/political-failure-has-killed-people-syria-and-after-earthquakes|access-date=14 April 2023}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 4
| [[2008 Sichuan earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|China}} China
| data-sort-value="8." |7.9
| $150 billion<ref>{{cite web|title=Significant Earthquake Information|last=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|year=1972|publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/7843}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 5
| [[2011 Christchurch earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|New Zealand}} New Zealand
| 6.3
| $40 billion<ref>{{cite web|title=Four years on: Insurance and the Canterbury Earthquakes|date=February 2015|publisher=Deloitte Access Economics|url=https://www.vero.co.nz/sites/default/files/documents/Vero%20NZ%20Report_Four%20Years%20On%20-%20Insurance%20and%20the%20Canterbury%20Earthquakes.pdf|access-date=February 29, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124111031/https://www.vero.co.nz/sites/default/files/documents/Vero%20NZ%20Report_Four%20Years%20On%20-%20Insurance%20and%20the%20Canterbury%20Earthquakes.pdf|archive-date=January 24, 2016}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 6
| [[2004 Chūetsu earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|Japan}} [[Japan]]
| data-sort-value="6.8" |6.6
| $28 billion<ref name="NCEI">{{cite web|title=Significant Earthquake Information|last=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|year=1972|publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/5807}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Guha-Sapir|first1=Debarati|last2=Santos|first2=Indhira|last3=Borde|first3=Alexandre|title=The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters|page=252|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-984193-6}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 7
| [[2011 Sikkim earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|India}} India
| data-sort-value="6.9" |6.9
| $22.3 billion<ref>{{cite journal|title=The September 2011 Sikkim Himalaya earthquake Mw 6.9: is it a plane of detachment earthquake?|journal=Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk|date=March 19, 2014|author=Santanu Baruah|author2=Sowrav Saikia|author3=Saurabh Baruah|author4=Pabon K. Bora|author5=Ruben Tatevossian|author6=J. R. Kayal|volume=7|pages=248–263|doi=10.1080/19475705.2014.895963|doi-access=free|s2cid=128915677}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 8
| [[1999 İzmit earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|Turkey}} [[Turkey]]
| data-sort-value="7.6" |7.6
| $20 billion<ref name="NCEI" />
|-
! scope="row" | 9
| [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake]]
| {{Flag icon|Italy}} [[Italy]]
| data-sort-value="6.3" |6.3
| $16 billion<ref>{{cite news|title=Italy Quake Reconstruction to Cost at Least $16 Billion|publisher=[[Fox News]]|date=April 15, 2009|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/italy-quake-reconstruction-to-cost-at-least-16-billion|access-date=October 23, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419231821/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C515989%2C00.html|archive-date=April 19, 2009}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | 10
| [[2012 Northern Italy earthquakes]]
| {{Flag icon|Italy}} [[Italy]]
| data-sort-value="6.1" |6.1
| $15.8 billion<ref name="NGDC">{{cite web|title=Significant Earthquake Database|author=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS)|publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]|year=1972|type=Data Set|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search}}</ref>
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