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Lisbon Earthquake
Location: Portugal
Magnitude: 8.5–9.0 M
Death Toll: between 10,000 and 50,000 people
Description: Crossed the Atlantic Ocean, reached the height of 7m (23 ft) or more in West Indies. The shaking was felt as far as Morocco. -
Krakatoa Eruption
Location: Java/Sumatra
Magnitude: 8.5-9.0
Death Toll: more than 36,000 people
Description: In Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra caused the peak of the volcano collapse into the ocean. It produced a huge tsunami more than 35 m (115 ft.), it destroyed 165 villages. -
Aleutian Earthquake
Location: Alaska
Magnitude: 8.1 M
Death Toll: 160 people
Description: It occurred near the Hawaiian islands. The wave proximately at nearly 100 feet high smashed onto the shore. The wave was advancing to the Southern Pacific at 500 miles per hour. -
Great Chilean
Location: Chile
Magnitude: 9.5 M
Death Toll: 61 people
Description: It caused a Tsunami in Hawaii after traveling for 15 hours across the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of Chile. A sequence of foreshocks the previous day that warned the people of the disaster. -
Good Friday Earthquake
Location: Alaska
Magnitude: 9.2 M
Death Toll: 130 people killed, 119 died in tsunamis
Description: It occurred in Alaska and California, the biggest tsunami wave height was 219 feet (67 m) in Shoup Bay in the Valdez Inlet.
25 of the village's 76 locals were engulfed in a tsunami. Three-quarters of the Aleutian subduction zone cracked in the extent of eight years. -
Hokkaido Earthquake
Location: Off the west coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Magnitude: 7.8 M
Death Toll: 120 people
Description: In the sea of Japan on Okushiri Island, Japan.Maximum felt the strength of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. In two to five minutes the tsunami, one of the biggest in Japan's history, consumed the shore of Okushiri Island and the central west coast of Hokkaido. -
Papua New Guinea Quake
Location: Papua New Guinea
Magnitude: 7.1 M
Death Toll: more than 21,000 people
Description: It triggered a submarine landslide that produced a tsunami. There was no warning system in place. Locals of the coastal area after coastal area near the Indian Ocean were struck by a series of tsunami waves without notice. Hundreds of thousands injured, millions displaced in more than a dozen countries along the Indian Ocean. -
Sumatra Earthquake
Location: Indonesia
Magnitude: 8.1 M
Death Toll: about 230,000 people
Description: The crack was more than 600 miles long, shifting the seafloor by 10 yards horizontally and several yards vertically. The outcome was trillions of tons of rock moved, generating the largest magnitude earthquake in 40 years. -
Samoa Earthquake
Location: Samoan Islands
Magnitude: 8.1 M
Death Toll: 200 people
Description: It was categorized as a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). It was the biggest earthquake of 2009. the waves reach 14 meters (46 ft) at their highest on the Samoan coast. -
Chile Earthquake
Location: Chile
Magnitude: 8.8 M
Death Toll: 700 people
Description: The epicenter was placed some 200 miles (325 km) southwest of the Chilean capital of Santiago.There was a rupture of a 300-375-mile (500-600-km) bend of the fault. Two divergent dense rock structures below the South American Plate, previously undiscovered, had presumably slowed the rupture and, produced enhanced shaking at the exterior. -
Tohoku Earthquake
Location: Japan
Magnitude: 9.1 M
Death Toll: 15,890 people died
Description: The earthquake produced a tsunami which reached heights of 30 feet, it damaged nuclear reactors in the area. It is the biggest earthquake to hit Japan. 231 miles northeast of Tokyo and a range of 15.2 miles.
