CHRONOLOGY - Recent Pacific Rim Earthquakes
Date: 18-Jul-06
Country: INDONESIA
The US-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake, which hit at 0819 GMT, was of 7.2 magnitude.
Following is a list of some earthquakes which have hit the Pacific Rim region in recent years:
Dec 12, 1992 - INDONESIA - A quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale kills at least 2,200 on a string of islands in the province of East Nusa Tenggara.
June 6, 1994 - COLOMBIA - A quake brings down buildings, triggers mudslides and kills about 1,000 in the Paez River valley in south-western Colombia.
Jan 17, 1995 - JAPAN - A quake measuring 7.2, the country's worst in half a century, rocks Kobe, killing 6,430.
May 28, 1995 - RUSSIA - Russia's worst earthquake, measuring 7.5, kills 1,989 in the oil-producing Far East.
July 17, 1998 - PAPUA NEW GUINEA - An undersea quake measuring 7.1 creates three tsunamis which kill at least 2,100.
Jan 25, 1999 - COLOMBIA - A quake measuring 6.3 kills at least 1,170 in the central coffee-growing region.
Sept 21, 1999 - TAIWAN - At least 2,000 people are killed and hundreds of thousands made homeless by a quake measuring 7.6 in central Taiwan.
Dec 26, 2004 - Nearly 230,000 people are killed and 43,000 listed as missing in a 9.15 magnitude earthquake off Indonesia and a tsunami triggered by it in the Indian Ocean region.
March 28, 2005 - INDONESIA - Nearly 1,000 were believed killed after a quake of magnitude 8.7 struck the coast of Sumatra.
May 27, 2006 - INDONESIA - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake devastated a wide area around Indonesia's ancient royal city of Yogyakarta, killing more than 5,000 people and destroying or damaging some 150,000 homes.