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9.0 North America Earthquake
This quake affectde 1,000 kilometres of coastline caused a Tsunami that crossed the Pacific ocean and damaged coastal villages in Japan. -
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8.7 Chile Earthquake and Tsunami
A quake struck the city of Valparaiso 120km off the capital Santiago, Creating a Tsunami which hit 1000 km of coastline. -
8.7 Portugal Earthquake
Portugals capital Lisbon was struck by a quake which killed a quarter of the cities population. -
9.0 Peru Arica Earthquake
The port of Arica was hit by a quake 1,400 kilometres away. -
8.8 Ecuador Earthquake
An earthquake off the coast of Ecuador and Columbia. -
9.0 East Russian Earthquake
A quake off the coast of Kamchatka peninsula caused pacific wide Tsunamis. -
9.5 Chile Earthquake
A southern Chile quake killed over 1,600 people and left 2,000,000 people homeless. -
9.2 Earthquake and Tsunami in Alaska
The quake and tsunami killed 128 people and caused major damage to Alaskas largest city Anchorage. -
8.7 Alaska quake
A quake in the Rat Islands created a 10 metre high Tsunami. -
9.1 Indonesia Underwater quake.
An undersea Earthquake which caused a massive Tsunami which destroyed coast lines in countries around the Indian ocean killing over 220,000 people. -
8.8 Chillean coast
An offshore earthquake and tsunami killed over 500 mostly in the coastal area of Maul -
8.9 Northeast Japan underwater quake
A northeastern undersea quake in Japan caused a giant 10 metre high Tsunami which destroyed parts of Japan.