Indonesia is the second country most frequently hit by earthquakes. A release from the disaster research institution, the *Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters* (CRED), states that between 1900 and 2016, 116 earthquake disasters occurred in Indonesia. This number is higher than the number of earthquakes in Japan during the same period, which was 61.
China is the country most affected by earthquakes worldwide, experiencing 156 earthquake events. Iran is ranked third with a record of 106 earthquake events. Earthquakes are ground shaking caused by the sudden release of energy from within the Earth, creating seismic waves. The largest earthquake in history, measuring 9 on the Richter scale, occurred in Japan in 2011.
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