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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
There was an earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal. The earthquake produced a tsunami which resulted with a fire. It killed an estimated 20,000 people and the waves thaqt crossed the Atlantic Ocean amplified to heights of 23 feet or more in the West Indies. It had a magnitude of 9. -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
The Krakatoa volcano in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra caused the top of the volcano to collapse into the ocean. The collapse produced a giant tsunami that was more than 115 feet high. It destroyed 165 villages and killed more than 36,000 people. -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
the Aleutian Earthquake produced a tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands thqat killed about 160 people. It had a magnitude of 8.1. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
The Chile earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii after traveling for 15 hours across the pacific ocean. The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.5. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
The earthquake in Alaska generated a deadly tsunami that killed about 130 people in Alaska and California. The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.2. -
Sea of Japan Earthquake (Japan)
The earthquake was in the sea of Japan which caused a tsunami that killed about 120 people on Okushiri Island, Japan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8. -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
The Papua New Guinea earthquake triggered a submarine landslide that produced a tsunami that killed more than 2,100 people. It had a magnitude of 7.1. -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
The Sumatra Earthquake generated a tsybanu that killed about 230,000 people and it had a magnitude of 9.1. -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
Samoa earthquake generated a tsunami that killed about 200 people and it had a magnitude of 8.1. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
The chile earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8 which generated a tsunami that killed about 700 people in coastal towns, -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
The Japan earthquake had a magnitude of 9.1 and it generated a tsunami that killed over 20,000 people.