Deadly Tsunamis-Paolo

Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)

Nov 1, 1755

This earthquake was of a 8.5-9.0 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 50,000 people. It killed more than the third of the entire population of the Portuguese.

Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)

Aug 26, 1883

This eruption created an earthquake of a 8.5 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 36,417 people. The explosion fired up hot ash 50 miles into the air. The force was about 13,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima explosion.

Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)

Apr 1, 1946

This earthquake was of a 8.1 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 165 people. This earthquake generated one of the most destructive Pacific-Wide tsunamis of the 20th century.

Great Chilean earthquake (Chile)

May 23, 1960

This earthquake was of a 9.5 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 1,655 people. This quake left about two million people homeless.

Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)

Mar 27, 1964

This earthquake was of a 9.2 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 139 people. This earthquake is the largest recorded in U.S. history and the second largest ever recorded in the world.

Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)

Jul 12, 1993

This earthquake was of a 7.8 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 230 people. This earthquake produced one of the largest tsunamis in Japan history.

Papua New Guinea Earthquake (Papua New Guinea)

Jul 17, 1998

This earthquake was of a 7.0 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 2,200 people. This earthquake caused a large undersea landslide which caused a tsunami that hit the coast.

Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)

Dec 29, 2004

This earthquake was of a 9.1 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 230,000 people. This earthquake is estimated to have released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.

Samoa earthquake (Indonesia)

Sep 29, 2009

This earthquake was of a 8.1 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 192 people. The earthquakes generated tsunami waves of up to 22 meters (72 feet) that engulfed the shores.

Chile earthquake (Chile)

Feb 27, 2010

This earthquake was of a 8.8 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 525 people. 220,000 homes were destroyed, along with 4,500 schools, 56 hospitals and 53 ports.

Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)

Mar 11, 2011

This earthquake was of a 9.1 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 18,000 people. The temblor shortened the length of a day by about a microsecond.

Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)

Sep 27, 2018

This earthquake was of a 7.5 magnitude which had a death toll of as many as 4,340 people, during this earthquake, about 2.4 million were affected.