Abstract
The number of significant earthquakes and of earthquake deaths in the world rose sharply in 1978 over the previous year, but for the first time in four years the world went without a ‘great’ earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or larger, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The Survey's National Earthquake Information Service (NEIS), Golden, Colorado, said that the number of significant earthquakes (6.5 or greater on the Richter scale or lesser ones that cause casualties or considerable damage) in the world rose from 36 in 1977 to 62 the following year. Deaths caused by earthquakes increased more than fivefold, from 2800 in 1977 to 15,195 last year, with most of them occurring in a major earthquake in Iran.
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