What is the strongest earthquake ever recorded?

Question

What is the strongest earthquake ever recorded?

Answer 1

The 1960 Valdivia Earthquake intensity 9.5.

Answer 2

Deadliest: Shaanxi Earthquake (1556). Deadliest known earthquake in history, estimated to have killed 830,000 in China.

Strongest:

1. Great Chilean Earthquake (1960). Strongest earthquake ever recorded, 9.5 on Moment magnitude scale, and generated tsunamis throughout the Pacific ocean. It measured 9.6 on the Richter scale.

2. Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake (26 December 2004). By some estimates, the second largest earthquake in recorded history (estimates of magnitude vary between 9.1 and 9.3).

3. Kamchatka earthquakes (1737) The third biggest earthquake on record measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale.

4. Good Friday Earthquake (1964) In Alaska, it was the fourth biggest earthquake recorded, measuring 9.2M. and generated tsunamis throughout the Pacific ocean.