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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
Magnitude: 8.5-9.0m (est.)
Death Toll: 10,000-100,000
-Occured on all Saints day, many were in churches.
-fired burned for 5 days after tsunami -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
Magnitude: VEI 6; 116 ft high waves
Death toll: 36,000 people
-generated loudest sound ever reported in history
-Hot ash fired 50ft in air -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
Magnitude: 8.1m
Death Toll: 160 people
-caused a major pacific-wide tectonic tsunami with wave heights of 40ft -
Great Chilean Earthquake ( Chile)
-Triggered 53 Countries tsunami warnings to go off. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
Magnitude: 9.2m
Death toll: More than 2,100 people
-earthquake that triggered tsunami
-Occured Southwest (lattitude 42.47 north and longitude 139.12 east) of Hokkaido in Sea of Japan -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
Magnitude: 7.8m
Death Toll: 2,100
-earthquake that triggered tsunami occurred Southwest (at latitude 42.47 north and longitude 139.12 east) of Hokkiado in Sea of Japan -
Papua New Guinea Quake(Papua New Guinea)
Magnitude: 7.1m
Death toll: 2,100 people
-500 people went missing
-waves estimated at being 15m (49ft) with an average height being 10.5m (34 ft) -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
Magnitude: 9.1m
Death Toll: 230,000 people
- 10 year old girl, Tilly smith, warned and saved over a 100 people after learning about plate tectonics in school and knowing a tsunami was coming -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
Magnitude: 8.1m
Death Toll: 200 people
-largest earthquake of 2009
-Generated by unusual type of earthquake that was caused by stress on subduction oceanic plate that was bending into the trench. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
Magnitude: 8.8m
Death Toll: 700 people
-caused from Nazca plate subduction under south american plate -
Tohoku Eathquake (Japan)
Magnitude: 9.1m
Death Toll: 20,000 people
-more than 5,000 aftershocks hit Japan in the year after Earthquake. -
Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)
Magnitude: 7.5m
Death toll: 832 people
-earhtquake caused soil liquefaction
-caused by mega-thrust violent vertical motion caused thrust and displace of water.
