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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
Magnitude: 7.7
Death Toll: 50,000-60,000
Facts: - fires from candles and cooking fires spread to houses and shortly the entire city was on fire
- 30 minutes after the earthquake a tsunami came into the city -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
Magnitude: 6
Death Toll: 36,000
Facts: -the sound of the explosion was claimed to be heard in 50 different locations around the world
- sound wave is recorded to have traveled around the globe seven times over -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
magnitude: 8.1
death toll: 165
facts: - the tsunami traveled about 490 miles an hour
- it had a wavelength of nearly 100 miles -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
magnitude: 9.5
death toll: 1655
facts: - left 2 million people homeless
- named after the city that was most affected which was Valdivia -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
magnitude: 9.2
death toll: 131
facts: - caused an underwater landslide that washed away the waterfront area of Valdez
- largest-ever recorded earthquake in North America -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
magnitude: 7.8
death toll: 230
facts: - caused fires to start in the town of Okushiri
- caused deaths in SouthEastern Russia -
Papua New Guinea Earthquake (Papua New Guinea)
magnitude: 7
death toll: 2183-2700
facts: -3 tsunamis followed the earthquake
- lasted 19 seconds -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
magnitude: 9.1
death toll: 230,000
facts: -deadliest disaster in modern history
- killed people across a dozen countries -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
magnitude: 8.0
death toll: 192
facts: - generated tsunamis of up to 22 meters
- over 200 million dollars in damage -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
magnitude: 8.8
death toll: >500
facts: - destroyed 220,000 homes
- many aftershocks followed the initial earthquake -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
magnitude: 9.1
death toll: >18,000
facts: - caused by the rupture of a stretch of the subduction zone associated with the Japan Trench
- lasted about 6 minutes -
Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)
magnitude: 7.5
death toll: >2,000
facts: - 150 km of the Paulu-Koro fault ruptured
- deadliest earthquake in Indonesia since 2009