302160 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/6/the-worlds-deadliest-earthquakes-since-2000A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing thousands of people. Here is a list of the world’s deadliest earthquakes since 2000: June 22, 2022: In Afghanistan , more than 1,100 people die in a magnitude 6.1 earthquake. August 14, 2021: In Haiti, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake September 28, 2018: A magnitude 7.2023-02-06T22:38+0100aljazeera-en-89ebb907732e654e5c2849b5c0e175c220230206223800https://www.independent.co.uk/news/syria-ap-turkey-afghanistan-indonesia-b2276901.htmlSept. 28, 2018: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Indonesia , killing more than 4,300 people. Aug. 24, 2016: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake in central Italy kills more than 300 people. April 25, 2015: In Nepal, more than 8,800 people are killed by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Aug. 3, 2014: A magnitude 6.2023-02-06T20:35+0100independent-UK-67ffb3fb810d6f900dda1de3ef76cd1320230206203500https://www.thedailystar.net/news/world/news/major-earthquakes-past-two-decades-3241181Some of the world's most deadly earthquakes in the past two decades are listed below, after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria yesterday and killed hundreds of people. Aug 14, 2021 - HAITI. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying or damaging about 13,000 homes.2023-02-06T20:09+0100thedailystarBD-d092280dd9877a0bb162db4cf50eae0720230206200900https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/16519354/earthquake-causes-magnitude/Earthquakes are caused by plate movements in the earth's crust Credit: Getty What causes an earthquake? The earth's crust is made up of different pieces known as tectonic plates. These plates fit together like a jigsaw and continuously move at a rate of a few centimetres a year, in different directions and at different speeds.2023-02-06T19:15+0100thesun-4ed8f722f641ba4ea87920cd74deccc020230206191500