Often we imagine nature in the role of a kind of “caring grandmother, ” admiring the flowers, beautiful landscapes and watching the peacefully murmuring brook. This impression is misleading, because sometimes it shows its true strength.
An example of this is the strongest earthquake in the world. More precisely, we will talk about several cases known to us, since different scientists and historians are not too similar in their assessments.
A sad list is crowned by the disaster that occurred in India. It happened not so long ago, in 1950. All the old Indians with horror remember the day when the earth was cracked, and thousands of people disappeared without a trace in the huge cracks of the earth. All this happened 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 could record its real strength on the Richter scale, since they simply went through the roof. Official science later assigned him 9 points, although all the surviving Indian scientists from Assam unanimously say that these numbers are false, that in fact this monstrous earthquake was many times stronger.
Their words fully confirm the information of American colleagues, who, being many thousands of kilometers from the epicenter of the disaster, without any instruments recorded its consequences, as tremors of impressive force reached even the central states! Already really, the most powerful earthquake in the world.
An alarm was sounded in Japan that day: the tremors recorded by the sensors were so strong that the country's civil defense forces broke pipes, trying to find out in which prefecture such an earthquake was taking place.
What was their surprise and horror when they learned that the disaster that had occurred in faraway India was echoed by strong underground vibrations even among them!
This is the strongest earthquake in the world only because of the small size of the city (completely destroyed) cost India a thousand dead. If something like this happened in the same Delhi, the consequences are scary to imagine …
Unfortunately, the Chinese were much less fortunate. In 1976, what happened is what all historians consider the most terrible cataclysm in the entire history of modern civilization, bearing in mind the incredible number of victims.
This is a cataclysm in Hebei. Then the power of underground rumors was “only” 8.2 points, which is much weaker than the Indian incident, only according to official figures, about 250 thousand people were among the dead.
Scary figure. Of course, this is not the most powerful earthquake in history, but analysts believe that the Chinese authorities underestimated the loss figures by 3-4 times.
But what about our country? Are we really lucky to live in the most stable place on the planet? Unfortunately, this is not the case.
The most powerful earthquake in Russia occurred recently - on May 28, 1995 on Sakhalin. This is a rainy day in our history. On that fateful morning, the strength of the tremors was up to 10 points.
Due to the small population, everything could have been dispensed with, but the main force of the blow was taken over by the city of Neftegorsk, which after that ceased to exist. Killed more than two thousand people.
The most tragic thing is that graduates gathered at the local school that day. Of the 26 children, only nine survived.
