Earthquake Clouds and Short Term Prediction

EARTHQUAKE CLOUDS AND
SHORT TERM PREDICTION

Table 4. Earthquake Death Toll (since 19900101)

Date	Time	Lat.	Lon.	Dep.	Mag.	Location	Killed	Injured	Refer	PrecursorP (predicted rightly)
19900620	21:00	36.957	49.409	18	7.7	N Iran	50,000 (50,000 *15)	320,000	Zhi-Jiang Daily	P 6/20/90 3:00
19900716	7:26	15.67	121.17	25	7.8	Philippines	1,621		*15
19910628	14:43	34.26	-118	11	5.6	S CA	2		*15
19911019	21:23	30.78	78.77	10	7	N India	2,000		*15
19920628	11:57	34.2	-116.43	1.1	7.3	Landers, CA	3		*15
19920902	0:16	11.74	-87.34	44.8	7.6	Nicaragua	116		*15
19921212	5:29	-8.48	121.89	27.7	7.5	Flores Indonesia	2,500		*15
19930921	3:28 5:45	42.31 42.35	-122.01 -122.04	10.7 5	6 6	Oregon	2		*15
19930929	22:25	18.06	76.45	6.8	6.2	Latur India	9.748		*15
19940117	12:30	34.21	-118.53	18	6.7	Northridge,CA	61 (60*15)		USA Today	P.1 1/8/94
19940609	0:33	-13.84	-67.55	631	8.2	Bolivia	5		*15
19950116	20:46	34.58	135.01	21.9	6.9	Kobe, Japan	5,502		*15
19950203	15:26	41.52	-109.64	1	5.3	Wyoming	1		*15
19950527	13:03	52.62	142.82	11	7.5	Sakhalin Russia	1,989		*15
19970510	7:57	33.82	59.8	10	7.3	N, Iran	1,560		*15
19970521	22:51	23.08	80.04	36	5.8	Jabalpur, India	38		*15
19970926	9:40	43.08	12.81	10	6.4	Central Italy	11		*15
19980204	14:33	37.075	70.089	33	6.1	Rustaq, Afghanistan	4,000 (2,323*15)	16,000	L.A. Times OCHA	P.1 1/1/98
19980530	6:22	37.1	70.11	33	6.6	Afghanistan- Tajikistan	4,000		*15
19980717	8:49	-2.96	141.92	10	7	P.N.G.	2,183		*15
19990125	18:19	4.461	-75.724	17	6.4	Colombia	1,185	4,750	*1
19990615	20:42	18.386	-97.436	70	7	Puebla, Mexico	20	>250	*1	P.1 5/16/99
19990817	1:39	40.748	29.864	17	7.7	Izmit, Turkey	17,118	50,000	*1	P.1 7/16/99
19990920	17:47	23.772	120.982		7.7	ChiChi,Taiwan	2,400	8,700	*1
19991112	16:57	40.79	31.11	33	7.2	Duzce,Turkey	894	5,108	*2	P.1 9/26/99
20000504	4:21	-1.105	123.573	26	7.5	Sulawesi, Indonesia	46	264	*1
20000604	16:28	-4.721	102.087	33	8	Sumatera,Indonesia	103	2,174	*1	P.35/14/00
20001125	18:11	40.167	49.954	33	6.3	Caucasus,Russia	31	439	*1	P.510/1/00
20010113	17:33	13.049	-88.66	60	7.8	El Salvador	844	4,723	*1	P.5 1/10/01
20010126	3:16	23.419	70.232	16	8	Gujarat, India	20,085	166,836	*1	P.5 11/9/00
20010213	14:22	13.671	-88.938	10	6.6	El Salvador	315	3.399	*1	P.5 1/27/01
20010623	20:33	-16.265	-73.641	33	8.4	Peru	75	2,687	*1	P.7 4/30/01
20020203	7:11	38.573	31.271	5	6.5	Turkey	44	318	*1
20020303	12:08	36.502	70.482	226	7.4	Hindu Kush Afganistan	150	several	*1	P.9 2/8/02
20020325	14:57	36.062	69.315	8	6.1	Hindu Kush Afganistan	1,000	several	*1
20020622	2:58	36.626	49.047	10	6.5	W Iran	261	1,300	*1	P.9 4/20,21/02
20021031	10:33	41.73	14.89	10	5.9	Italy	29	some	*1
20021120	21:32	35.53	74.53	33	6.4	Kashmir	19	40	*1	P.9 11/6/02
20030122	2:06	18.84	-103.82	24	7.8	Mexico	29	300	*1	P.12 12/2/02
20030224	2:03	39.61	77.24	11	6.4	XinJiang, China	263	4,000	*1	P.13 2/16/03
20030501	0:27	39.0	40.44	10	6.4	Bingol, Turkey	158	520	*3	P.13 3/29/03
20030521	18:44	36.88	3.73	10	6.8	near Algiers, Algeria	1,467 (2,266*15)	7,000	*3	P.13 3/9,4/8/03
20030721	15:16	25.96	101.19	10	6.0	Yunnan, China	16	584	*3	P.13 4/16/03
20030816	10:58	43.81	119.57	24	5.7	Nei Mongol, China	2	56	*4,5	P.14 7/29/03
20031025	12:41	38.35	100.96	10	5.8	Gansu, China	9	43	*1	P.15 10/22/03
20031222	19:15	35.71	-121.1	7	6.5	San Simeon, California	2	about 40	*1	P.16 10/5/03
20031226	1:56	28.99	58.29	10	6.8Ms(6.5Mb)	Bam, Iran	25,000 (26,200*15)	50,000	Iran Mania	P.16 12/21/03
20040214	10:30,11:56	34.83,34.81	73.26,73.19	10, 10	5.5,5.4	Batgram, Pakistan	20	several	*1	P.16 12/15/03
20040224	2:27	35.22	-3.95	1	6.4	Morocco	226	120	*6	P.17 2/14/04
20040528	12:38	36.28	51.57	28.3	6.3	Baladeh, Iran	6	8	*3	P.17 2/26/04
20040810	10:26	27.2	103.74	10	5.2 (5.6 China)	Yunnan, China	4	594	*1	P.19 6/19/04
20041023	8:56	37.2	138.81	15.8	6.9	Niigata, Japan	23	over 2,000	*3, 7	P.20 7/13/04
20041126	2:25	-3.58	135.3	10	7.0	Papua, Indonesia	17	130	*1	P.20 8/18/04
20041226	0:58, 4:21	3.3, 6.9	95.78,92.95	10, 10	9.0, 7.3	Sumatra, Indonesia,Nicobar, India	283,106		*15	P.22 12/13/04
20050222	2:22	30.73	56.82	10	6.4	Kerman, Iran	400	950	*1,7	P.22 12/15/04
20050328	16:09	2.06	97.01	30	8.7	Nias,Sumatra,Indonesia	1,313	340	*1	P.241/6/05
20051008	3:50	34.43	73.54	26	7.6	Pakistan	47,700Central(79,000 Local9,10) 80,36115	41,188	*7, 9,10	P.289/28/05
20051126	0:49	29.69	115.68	10	5.4	Jiangxi,China	14	370	*11	P.2910/22/05
20060222	22:19	-21.32	33.58	11	7	Mozambique	4		*15	P.2912/25/05
20060314	6:57	-3.59	127.21	30.1	6.7	Seram Indonesia	4		*15	P.292/28/06
20060331	1:17	33.5	48.78	7	6.1	W Iran	66(70*15)	1,200	*11	P.292/16/06
20060526	22:53	-7.97	110.45	10	6.3	Java, Indonesia	443(5,749*15)	2,800	*11	P.292/18/06
20060717	8:19	-9.22	107.32	34	7.7	Java, Indonesia	650(tsunami)(730*15)		*12	P.295/17/06
20060722	1:10	27.97	104.07	66	5.2	Yunnan, China	19	106	*13	P.297/12/06
20061217	21:39	0.64	100.04	30	5.8	Sumatra, Indonesia	4	100	*14	P.3011/28/06
20061226	12:26	21.82	120.54	10	7.1	Taiwan, China	2		*14	P.3012/22/06
20070121	11:27	1.07	126.28	7.5	7.5	Molucca Sea	4		*15	P.3012/30/06
20070306	3:49	-0.47	100.57	30	6.4	Sumatra, Indonesia	70		*16,15	P.3012/19/06
20070325	0:41	37.27	136.6	5	6.7	Japan	1		*15	P.3112/3/06
20070401	20:39	-8.48	156.98	10	8	Solomon	12(tsunami)58		*3,15	P.313/26/07
20070602	21:34	23.01	101.05	10	6.2	Yunnan, China	2	200	*13	P.323/16/07
20070716	1:13	37.57	138.44	55	6.7	Chiigala, Japan	7	800	*18	P.325/27/07
20070815	23:40	-13.36	-76.52	30.2	8.0	Peru	519		*15	P.327/8/07
20070912	11:10	-4.52	101.37	34	8.4	Sumatra, Indonesia	25		*15	P.328/14/07
20071114	15:40	-22.22	-69.88	40	7.7	Chile	2		*15
20071125	16:02	-8.29	118.38	42	6.5	Sumbawa, Indonesia	3		*15
20071129	19:00	14.97	-61.23	147	7.4	Windward	1		*15
20071120	7:55	-38.86	178.52	36	6.6	New Zealand	1		*15

Note:

Lat.: Latitude, Lon.: Longitude, Dep.: Depth (km), Mb: A unit of magnitude, Mag.: magnitude, A Homeless: Homeless number, B.HouseDes.: destroyed house number, "-": South for latitude, and West for longitude.
The death number of the Caucasus earthquake on Nov. 25, 2000 consisted of 5 by falling debris, 23 by heart attacks, and 3 by an explosion on the next day.
The death number of the India earthquake on Jan. 26, 2001 consisted of 20,005 Indian and 18 Pakistani
The death number of the Peru earthquake on Jun. 23, 2001 included 26 by a tsunami

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*2 http://www.adrc.or.jp/latestinfo/
*3 http://www.reliefweb.int/
*4 http://www.ananova.com/news/
*5 http://www.news.com.au/
*6 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle
*7 http://www.cnn.com/
*8 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/
*9 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
*10 http://news.yahoo.com/
*11 http://www.hznews.com.cn/ Hangzhou Daily, ZheJiang, China
*12 http://www.alertnet.org/ AlertNet
*13 http://news.xinhuanet.com/ Xinhua online China
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*15 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php Historic Worldwide Earthquakes (USGS)(20070223)
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*18 http://www.nola.com/newsflash/international/ News Flash (20070716)