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Lisbon Earthquake
Location- Kingdom of Portugal
Magnitude- 9
Death Toll- Killed about 20,000
The Earthquake resulted in a fire. The tsunami waves crossed the Atlantic Ocean which amplified heights of 7 meters. -
Krakatoa Eruption
location- West of Sumatra in Indonesia
Death Toll- Killed more than 36,000 people
Krakatoa was one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded in history. Krakatoa destroyed 165 villages and left a lot of people dead or homeless. -
Aleutian Earthquake
location -Hawaii, Alaska
Death Toll- Killed about 160 people The Aleutian Earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1. It had over 26 million dollars of damage repair. the event was classified as a tsunami earthquake because of the size of the tsunami and the relatively low surface wave magnitude. -
Good Friday Earthquake
Location - Alaska
Death Toll- 139 killed
The earthquake was at 5:36 on Good Friday which is where the nae came from. It had a magnitude of 9.2. -
Great Chilean Earthquake
Location- Chile
Death Toll- 15,953
The earthquakes tremor cause many localized tsunamis. The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.4. -
Hokkaido Eathquake
Location- Hokkaido Japan
Death toll-230
It triggered a major tsunami that caused deaths on Hokkaido and in southeastern Russia. It had a magnitude of 7.7. -
Papua New Guinea Quake
Location- Papua New Guinea
Death toll- 2700 dead and thousands injured
Occurred on a reverse fault near the north coast region of Papua New Guinea caused a large undersea landslide which caused a tsunami that hit the coast. Magnitude of 7.1 -
Sumatra Earthquake
Location- Sumatra Indonesia
Death Toll- 280,00
Indian Plate was subducted by the Burma Plate and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean. Magnitude of 9.1 -
Samoa Earhquake
location- Samoa; American Samoa; Tonga; Cook Islands; Fiji; French Polynesia; New Zealand
Death Toll- 1998
Countries affected by the tsunami in the areas that were hit are American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa -
Chile Earthquake
Location- Chile
Death Toll- 525
Magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes. triggered a tsunami which devastated several coastal towns in south-central Chile and damaged the port at Talcahuano -
Tohoku Earthquake
Location- Japan
Death Toll- 15,000
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 meters
