Estimated Deaths from Earthquakes, 2009 The following table gives the number of people who died in earthquakes in 2009. The magnitude of each earthquake is also shown. Magnitudes listed are moment magnitudes, the newest, most uniformly applicable magnitude scale. DateRegionMagnitudeNumber killed April 6Central Italy6.3287 May 28Offshore Honduras7.37 Sept. 2Java, Indonesia7.072 Sept. 29Samoa Islands Region8.0110 Sept. 30Southern Sumatra, Indonesia7.61100 Source:Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology: Earthquake Events 2009: IRIS