Peak Ground Acceleration - Notable Earthquakes

Notable Earthquakes

PGA
single direction
(max recorded)		 PGA
vector sum (H1, H2, V)
(max recorded)		 Mag Depth Fatalities Earthquake
2.7g 2.99 g 9.0 30 km >15000 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2.2g 6.3 5 km 185 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
2.13g 6.4 6 km 1 June 2011 Christchurch earthquake
4.36g 6.9/7.2 8 km 12 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake
1.7g 6.7 19 km 57 1994 Los Angeles earthquake
1.47g 7.1 42km 4 April 2011 Miyagi earthquake
1.26g 7.1 10 km 0 2010 Canterbury earthquake
1.01g 6.6 10 km 11 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake
1.01g 7.3 8 km 2,415 1999 Jiji earthquake
1.0g 6.0 8 km 0 December 2011 Christchurch earthquakes
0.8g 6.8 16 km 6,434 1995 Kobe earthquake
0.78g 8.8 23 km 521 2010 Chile earthquake
0.6g 6.0 10 km 143 1999 Athens earthquake
0.51g 6.4 612 2005 Zarand earthquake
0.5g 7.0 13 km 92,000-316,000 2010 Haiti earthquake
0.438g 7.7 44 km 27 1978 Miyagi earthquake (Sendai)
0.367g 5.2 1 km 9 2011 Lorca earthquake
0.25 - 0.3g 9.5 33 km 1,655 1960 Valdivia earthquake
0.24g 6.4 628 2004 Morocco earthquake
0.18g 9.2 23 km 143 1964 Alaska earthquake

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