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Lisbon Earthquake - Portugal
Magnitude of the earthquake was 9 and the death toll was 20,000. Waves that crossed the Atlantic got as high as 23 feet. The epicenter of the earthquake was 120 miles away. -
Krakatoa Eruption - Java/Sumatra
The magnitude came from a volcano, and it needed up killing 36,000 people. The tsunami waves got up to 35 meters and destroyed 165 villages.. The volcano set off 4 different explosions as well. -
Aleutian Earthquake - Alaska
With a magnitude of 8.1, the earthquake and tsunami ended up killing 160 people. The waves reached up to 42 m high and had people in Hawaii feeling it -
Great Chilean Earthquake - Chile
The magnitude was a record of 9.5 killing a total of 1655 people. The earthquake traveled for 15 hours and the tsunami waves were about 25 m high. -
Good Friday Earthquake - Alaska
The magnitude of this was 9.2 and ended up killing 130 people. This earthquake generated a tsunami all the way in California. There were also multiple small tsunamis. -
Hokkaido Earthquake - (Japan)
The magnitude of the earthquake was 7.8 magnitude and the death toll was 120. It was not as dangerous as the others. The earthquake had 130 aftershocks. -
Papua New Guinea Earthquake - (Papua New Guinea)
The magnitude of the earthquake was a 7.1 and had a death toll of 2100. The tsunami that was created was from a landslide. The wave ended up being a total of forty nine feet tall. -
Sumatra Earthquake - (Indonesia)
The death toll was a total of 230,000 people because of a 9.1 magnitude earthquake. The waves were being pulled at about 45 km per second and was classified as max intensity. -
Samoa Earthquake - (Samoan Islands)
The magnitude of 8.1 ended up killing 200 people. A lot of the people were able to escape and most of the tsunami warnings were called off because they thought it was missing. -
Chile Earthquake -(Chile)
With the magnitude of 8.8, it ended up killing 700 people. It hit mostly all the costal towns and was a megathrust earthquake. -
Tohoku Earthquake - (Japan)
With the magnitude of 9.1, 20,000 people ended up dying. It costed 360 billion dollars in damages and the waves was about 113 feet tall. -
Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)
The magnitude of 7.5 ended up killing 4,340 people. The earthquake ended up having 32 aftershocks and multiple landslides.