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Famous earthquakes

Name a famous earthquake. Hopdown accepts 528 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper. A well-known or historically significant earthquake, named by place and/or year (for example San Francisco 1906 or Tohoku).

Most common answers

• 1906 San Francisco EarthquakeExtremely common
• 2011 Tohoku EarthquakeExtremely common
• 1755 Lisbon EarthquakeExtremely common
• 2004 Indian Ocean EarthquakeExtremely common
• 2010 Haiti EarthquakeExtremely common
• 1994 Northridge EarthquakeExtremely common
• 1989 Loma Prieta EarthquakeCommon
• 1960 Valdivia EarthquakeCommon
• 1964 Alaska EarthquakeUncommon
• 1923 Great Kanto EarthquakeUncommon
• 1995 Kobe EarthquakeUncommon
• 1994 Bolivia EarthquakeUncommon
• 1970 Ancash EarthquakeUncommon
• 2007 Peru EarthquakeUncommon
• 2016 Ecuador EarthquakeUncommon

Rare answers

• 1954 Dixie Valley EarthquakeRare
• 1927 Jericho EarthquakeRare
• 2020 Simeonof EarthquakeRare
• 1917 Guatemala EarthquakeRare
• 1986 Palm Springs EarthquakeRare
• 1727 Newbury EarthquakeRare
• 1943 Mona Passage EarthquakeRare
• 2017 Ischia EarthquakeVery rare
• 2017 Kos EarthquakeVery rare
• 1909 Lambesc EarthquakeVery rare
• 1992 Suusamyr EarthquakeVery rare
• 2016 Manipur EarthquakeVery rare
• 2018 Hualien EarthquakeVery rare
• 1939 Oga EarthquakeVery rare
• 2019 Davao del Sur EarthquakeVery rare

Deep cuts

The answers almost nobody gives.

• 1938 Banda Sea EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2011 Tarlay EarthquakeDeep cut
• 1968 Meckering EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2013 Santa Cruz Islands EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2021 Loyalty Islands EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2006 Mozambique EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2002 Denali Fault EarthquakeDeep cut
• 1755 Great Lisbon EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2025 Kamchatka Megathrust EarthquakeDeep cut
• 2009 Samoa Earthquake and TsunamiDeep cut

Plus 488 more answers you'll have to find yourself.