Hundreds are feared dead after a powerful 7.8 magnitude quake rocked Nepal on Saturday. Below is a list of some of the world's deadliest earthquakes in the past 30 years.
August 11, 2012:
Twin earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.3 and 6.4 on the Richter scale leave 306 dead and more than 3,000 injured near the Iranian city of Tabriz
March 11, 2011:
Nearly 18,900 are killed when a tsunami triggered by a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea quake slams into the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant
October 23, 2011:
An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocks eastern Turkey, leaving more than 600 dead and at least 4,150 injured
January 12, 2010:
A 7.0-magnitude quake hits Haiti, leaving between 250,000 and 300,000 dead
April 14, 2010:
A 6.9-magnitude quake hits Yushu county in northwest China's Qinghai province leaving 3,000 people dead and missing
May 12, 2008:
A quake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale hits China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing
May 27, 2006:
A powerful quake in Indonesia's Yogyakarta region kills 6,000 and leaves 1.5 million homeless
October 8, 2005:
An earthquake of 7.6 magnitude kills more than 75,000 people, the vast majority of them in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
March 28, 2005:
An earthquake on Indonesia's Nias island off Sumatra leaves 900 dead
December 26, 2004:
A massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra island triggers a tsunami which kills 220,000 in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia
December 26, 2003:
A quake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale hits the Iranian city of Bam, killing at least 31,884 people and injuring 18,000
January 26, 2001:
A 7.7- magnitude earthquake hits Gujarat, killing 25,000 people and injuring 166,000.
September 30, 1993:
A 6.3-magnitude quake hits the western Indian state of Maharashtra, killing 7,601
October 20, 1991:
A quake measuring 6.6 hits the Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh state in India, killing 768
August 20, 1988:
A 6.8-magnitude quake hits eastern Nepal, killing 721 people in Nepal and at least 277 in the neighbouring Indian state of Bihar
July 28, 1976:
A 7.8-magnitude quake hits Tangshan, in China's Hebei province. Officials said 242,000 people died
January 15, 1934:
A 8.1-magnitude quake hits eastern Nepal and Bihar in neighbouring India killing 10,700 people
