The toll of recent earthquakes.
December 12th, 1992 Indonesia: A magnitude 6.8 quake killed at least 2,200 people.
September 30th, 1993 India: A series of quakes killed almost 10,000 people in western and southern India.
June 6th, 1994 Colombia: A quake kills about 1,000 people in the Paez River valley in southwestern Colombia.
January 17th, 1995 Japan: A magnitude 7.2 quake rocks Kobe, killing 6,430 people.
May 28th, 1995 Russia: Russia's worst earthquake, magnitude 7.5, kills 1,989 people in the oil-producing Far East.
February 28th, 1997 Iran: A 5.5 quake kills about 1,000 people in northwestern Iran.
May 10th, 1997 Iran: A magnitude 7.1 quake kills 1,560 people in rural areas of eastern Iran near the Afghan border.
February 4th, 1998 Afghanistan: At least 4,500 people are killed in Takhar province in a 6.1 quake.
May 30th, 1998 Afghanistan: A magnitude 6.9 quake kills up to 4,000 people in Takhar province.
July 17th, 1998 Papua New Guinea: An undersea quake of magnitude 7.1 creates three tsunami waves, killing at least 2,100 people.
January 25th, 1999 Colombia: A magnitude 6.3 quake kills at least 1,170 people.
August 17th, 1999 Turkey: More than 17,800 people are killed by a magnitude 7.4 quake.
September 21st, 1999 Taiwan: At least 2,000 people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 quake.
January 26th, 2001 India: An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 strikes the western state of Gujarat killing at least 19,700 people and causing damage in neighbouring Pakistan.
March 26th, 2002 Afghanistan: At least 1,500 people are killed when a series of quakes of between magnitude five and six strike northern Afghanistan.
May 21st, 2003 Algeria: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Algiers and nearby towns to the east, killing 2,251.
December 26th, 2003 Iran: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the historic city of Bam, 1,000km (600 miles) southeast of Tehran. 30,948 were killed in the quake.
December 26th, 2004 Asia: The number of dead and missing in an Asian earthquake and tsunami is at least 232,010. The wave crashed into Sri Lanka and India, drowning thousands and swamping tourist isles in Thailand and the Maldives. The quake measured 9.15 in magnitude.
March 28th, 2005 Indonesia: Nearly 1,000 people are killed after a quake of magnitude 8.7 struck Sumatra. - (Reuters)