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Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal
The magnitude of this earthquake is 9.0. The death toll is 20,000. The Earthquake occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. Tremors could be felt all throughout Europe. Many buildings were destroyed. -
Krakatoa Eruption, Java/Sumatra
The magnitude of this eruption is 6. The death toll is 36,000. The Eruption affected the climate and caused temperatures to drop all over the world. -
Aleutian Earthquake, Alaska
The magnitude of this Earthquake is 8.6. The death toll totaled 165 people. Alaska and Hawaii were both affected. This earthquake generated one of the most destructive Pacific- wide tsunamis of the 20th century. -
Great Chilean Earthquake, Chile
The magnitude of this earthquake is 9.4-9.6. The death toll totaled 5,700 people in South Chile, 61 deaths in Hawaii, 32 dead in the Phillipines. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. It was caused due to subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate. -
Good Friday Earthquake, Alaska
The magnitude of this earthquake is 9.2. It's death toll included the death of 131 people. It was the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded in history. It triggered a swell of devastating tsunamis, landslides, and submarine slumps. -
Hokkaido Earthquake, Japan
The magnitude of the Hokkaido Earthquake is 7.7. The death toll totaled 230 people. The epicenter of the earthquake is in the sea of Japan. The waves of the tsunami ranged from 5 to 10 meters in height. -
Papua New Guinea Quake, Papua New Guinea
The magnitude of this earthquake was a 7.0. The death toll totaled in 2,100 deaths. The epicenter of the earthquake was 12 miles off shore. The northern coast of Papua New Guinea, along the Bismarck Sea where the earthquake occurred, is a very active seismic region involving complex interactions. -
Sumatra Earthquake, Indonesia
The magnitude of this earthquake was a 9.1. The death toll was 227,898. This earthquake was caused by slippage of about 600 miles of the boundary between and India and Burma plates off of the west coast of northern Sumatra. The convergence of other plates had strained the area. -
Samoa Earthquake, Samoan Islands
The magnitude of this earthquake was a 8.1 and the death toll totaled 192 people. It took place in the southern Pacific Ocean, adjacent to the Kermadec- Tonga subduction zone. -
Chile Earthquake, Chile
The magnitude of this earthquakes 8.8 and the death toll was 500. Epicenter was located 200 miles southwest of the Chilean capital of Santiago. The earthquake resulted from the rupture of a 300 to 375 miles stretch f the fault that separates the South American plate from the subduction of the Nazca Plate. -
Tohoku Earthquake, Japan
The magnitude of this earthquake was 9.1 and the death toll was 15,000. At the time of the earthquake, Japan had 54 nuclear reactors and 17 power plants that had produces 80% of Japan's Electricity. The Japanese gov. estimated that the tsunami swept about 5 million tons of debris offshore, but 70% of that sank- leaving 1.5 millions tons of debris in the Pacific Ocean. -
Sulawesi Earthquake, Indonesia
The magnitude of this earthquake was a 7.5 and the death toll was 384. The first place that was hit was at a beach festival named Festival Person at Pauli Nomini. Indonesia's geological and weather r says the tsunami was likely caused by undersea landslides in the Sunda Strait following an eruption by the Krakatoa Volcano.
