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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.5 and the death toll was 70,000 people. The earthquake happened on All Saints Day. Also, a lot of people were at mass when the earthquake happened. -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
The magnitude of the eruption was VEI of 6 and the death toll was about 36,417. The volcano was a cone-shaped mountain but when the mountain's top was destroyed the pieces made four small islands. The explosions of the eruption was heard 2,200 miles away in Australia. -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.6 and the death toll was 165 people. There was a tsunami that happened 5 hours after the earthquake without warning. Wave heights reached an estimated 115 feet in Alaska. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.5 and the death toll was about 1,655 dead. There were foreshocks that happened the previous day. Two days after the earthquake the Cordón Caulle volcano in chile Lake District erupted after 40 years of inactivity. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.2 and the death toll is 131. The earthquake lasted nearly 3 minutes. Two hundred miles southwest, some areas of coastline were permanently raised by 30 feet. -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
The magnitude of this earthquake was 6.6 and the death toll was 230. -
Papua New Guinea Earthquake
The magnitude of the earthquake was 7.0 ad the death toll was 2,183. The earthquake occurred on a reverse fault near the north coast of Papua New Guinea. Three very big tsunami waves happened after the earthquake.