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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal0
Magnitude: 9 (estimated)
Death Toll: 20,000
Details: the earthquake resulted in a fire -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
Death Toll: 36,000
Details: top of the volcano collapsed into the ocean -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
Magnitute: 8.1
Death Toll: 160
Details: over $26 million in damage -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
Magnitute: 9.5
Death Toll: 61
Details: traveled for 15 hours across the Pacific Ocean -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
Magnitude: 9.2
Death Toll: 130
Details: also hit California -
Sea of Japan Earthquake (Japan)
Magnitute: 7.8
Death Toll: 120
Details: near the Island of Hokkaido -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
Magnitute: 7.1
Death Toll: 2100
Details: maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
Magnitude: 9.1
Death Toll: 230,000
Details: ruptured the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake -
Somoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
Magnitude: 8.1
Death Toll: 200
Details: largest earthquake of 2009 -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
Magnitude: 8.8
Death Toll: 700
Details: off the coast of central chile -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
Magnitude: 9.1
Death Toll: 20,000
Detais: near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
