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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 23rd January
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1

IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The diagram below shows information about the world’s biggest earthquakes.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

SAMPLE ANSWER
The table presents detailed information on the ten worst earthquakes in the world. These are spread over a period of a little more than 100 years with the majority of them located in the Americas.
The most powerful earthquake occurred on May 22nd, 1960 in southern Chile and hit with a force of 9.5. North Sumatra, Tibet and the Adreanof Islands all experienced an 8.6 quake and were ranked last in this list. Both the 1950s and 1960s have three quakes each in the top ten list with all of them happening over a 16-year period between 1950 and 1965. Sumatra experienced two earthquakes, ranked third and eighth largest, in 2004 and 2005 with a magnitude of 9.1 and 8.6 respectively. The majority of these ten quakes, six of them, took place in the months of January, February or March. Both Chile and Ecuador experienced an 8.8 quake but these took place 104 years apart.
