Here is a list of major earthquakes to have struck India following a quake in Sikkim that rocked northeast India and the surrounding region late on Sunday.

September 18, 2011: Border between India's Sikkim state and Nepal, magnitude 6.9, kills at least 45 people in India, Nepal and Tibet

August 11, 2009: Off India's Andaman Islands, magnitude 7.6, only property damage reported

February 14, 2006: Sikkim, magnitude 5.7, damages historic buildings but causes no deaths

October 8, 2005: Pakistan and India, magnitude 7.6, kills more than 73,000 people, mainly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and 1,300 in Indian Kashmir

December 26, 2004: India's coastal regions hit by Asian tsunami, triggered by massive earthquake off Indonesia, kills at least 11,000 Indians

January 26, 2001: Western state of Gujarat, magnitude 6.7, more than 20,000 people killed

March 29, 1999: Northern state of Uttar Pradesh, magnitude 6.8, more than 100 dead

May 22, 1997: Central state of Madhya Pradesh, magnitude 6.0, 40 dead

September 30, 1993: Western state of Maharashtra, magnitude 6.3, 7,601 dead

October 20, 1991: Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh state, magnitude 6.6, 768 killed

August 21, 1988: Indo-Nepal border, magnitude 6.5, about 1,000 killed

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