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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
A (M-9) Earthquake produced by the sudden vertical displacement of water. The tsunami was 7 meters or 23 feet high. It killed 20,000 people. -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java Sumatra)
When the top of a volcano collapsed in the water it created a tsunami that was 35 meters or 115 feet high, it destroyed 165 villages and killed 36,000 people. -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
A (M 8.1) Earthquake produced a tsunami in the Hawaii islands that killed 160 people. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
A (M 9.5) Earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii after traveling for 15 hours across the pacific ocean. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
(M 9.2) Second most powerful earthquake created a tsunami 220 feet high killing 139 people. -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
(M 7.7) An earthquake caused a tsunami that killed 230 people. -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
(M 7.0) An earthquake causing a tsunami to kill 2,180-2,700 people. -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
(M 9.1-9.3) A tsunami that was caused by the sixth deadliest earthquake killing 250,000 people -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoa Islands)
(M 8.1) An earthquake generated a tsunami killing 189 people. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
(M 8.8) Earthquake triggering a tsunami that killed 525 people. -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
(M 9.0-9.1) 15,894 people died from a tsunami that was caused by a earthquake.