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Deadly Tsunamis - McKenna Best

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  • Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)

    Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
    Magnitude: ~M9
    Death Toll: 20,000
    Facts: Produced waves as high as 20 meters that swept along the coast of North Africa, and struck Martinque and Barbados across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)

    Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
    Magnitude: VEI 6
    Death Toll: 36,000
    Facts: One eruption on August 27 was heard 2800 miles away. It caused fiery red sunsets around the world up to three years afterwards.

  • Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)

    Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
    Magnitude:M8.1
    Death Toll: 160
    Facts: The wave reached Kauai, Hawaii 4.5 hours after the quake, and Hilo, Hawaii 4.9 hours later.

  • Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)

    Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
    Magnitude: M9.5
    Death Toll: 61
    Facts: It was caused due to the subduction of Nazca plate under the South American plate. Waves set off it by bounced back and forth across the pacific for a week.

  • Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)

    Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
    Magnitude: M9.2
    Death Toll: 130
    Facts: In Chenega, 25 of the village's 76 residents drowned in a tsunami. The only building that survived the wave intact was the schoolhouse.

  • Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)

    Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
    Magnitude: M7.8
    Death Toll: 120
    Facts: It took between two to seven minutes after the earthquake for the first of the destructive tsunami waves to strike the coastlines of Okushiri Island.

  • Papua New Guinea Earthquake (Papua New Guinea)

    Papua New Guinea Earthquake (Papua New Guinea)
    Magnitude: M7.1
    Death Toll: 2100
    Facts: The villages on the slender spit of land which separates the Sissano lagoon from the sea completely disappeared.

  • Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)

    Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
    Magnitude: M9.1
    Death Toll: 230,000
    Facts: The rupture was more than 600 miles long, displacing the seafloor by 10 yards horizontally and several yeards vertically.

  • Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)

    Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
    Magnitude: M8.1
    Death Toll: 200
    Facts: It was caused by at least two separate earthquakes occurring within 2-3 minutes of each other near the Tonga Trench.

  • Chile Earthquake (Chile)

    Chile Earthquake (Chile)
    Magnitude: M8.8
    Death Toll: 700
    Facts: Thrust faulting by the South American Plate as it overrides the Nazca Plate created the megathrust earthquake.

  • Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)

    Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
    Magnitude: M9.1
    Death Toll: 20,000
    Facts: People in Japan felt strong shaking for three to five minutes.

  • Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)

    Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)
    Magnitude: M7.5
    Death Toll: 105
    Facts: Aftershocks continued in central Sulawesi into November, with a magnitude 5 quake occurring on Nov. 3