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M9 in Lisbon, Portugal
With a death toll of 10,000 - 100,000, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake was one of the deadliest in history. With wave heights in areas over 20 meters, it deviates many areas. -
1883 Krakatoa Collapse
over 36,000 people died. Before the major event, major earthquakes were felt, and small eruptions were happening, but stopped a couple weeks before the major event. -
Aleutian Islands Earthquake
with a magnitude of 8.6, and 26 million in damages, it didn't cause as much destruction as some, but with 170 deaths, it still was significant. -
Great Chilean Earthquake
in 1960, the biggest Earthquake was recorded. This caused a huge Tsunami which caused damage in Southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, Eastern New Zealand, Southeast Australia and the Aleutian Islands. -
Great Alaska Earthquake
The earthquake and Tsunami took 131 lives and $2.3 billion in damages. -
Hokkaidō earthquake
With a 7.7 on the MMS, and the Tsunami caused by the earthquake caused 230 deaths. -
Papua New Guinea earthquake
7.0 on the MMS, the earthquake caused a huge undersea landslide, killing over 2183 people. -
Sumatra Earthquake
This earthquake ruptured the longest fault length of any earthquake in history. The tsunami reached a top speed of 620 mph and with waves reaching 100 ft. 227,898 people died, which makes it the worst tsunami in history. -
Samoa earthquake and tsunami
With a 8.1 on MMS, the tsunami after caused 189 deaths, over 170 million in damage. -
Chile earthquake
8.8 on the MMS, the tsunami and earthquake caused 497 deaths, and millions in damages were inflicted. -
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
with a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the tsunami did a plethora of damage. 15,894 deaths, and with over 235 billion in damages, its ranked as one of the costliest natural disasters in history.
