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Lisbon Earthquake Tsunami
The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.5-9.0M with 50,000 to 60,000 deaths. The earthquake was caused by faulting of the sea floor in the mid-Atlantic. The tsunami wave was about 20ft high. the waves travelled 3,790mi in 10 hours and were 13ft above sea level. -
Krakatoa Eruption Tsunami
The Eruption had a VEI rating of 6 which means it was colossal. The death toll was 36,417 people. In these events 70%of the island Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed and collapsed into a caldera. The tsunami was 37m high. -
Aleutian Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.6 and the death toll of 165- 173 people. The tsunami wave travelled 490mph and the two events cause $26 million in 1946 dollars. This event hit the Hawaiian islands the hardest. -
Great Chilean Earthquake Tsunami
The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.5 with a death toll of 1,655 people. It is considered the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. The waves moved outward from a subduction zone along the coast of Chile. -
Good Friday Earthquake Tsunami
The Earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2 and a death toll of 131. This earthquake was Alaska's highest ever recorded earthquake. The tsunami was caused by an underwater landslide. The earthquake was a megathrust earthquake. -
Hokkaido Earthquake Tsunami
The Earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8M and a death toll of 230 people. The earthquake and tsunami were caused by tectonic interactions of the Pacific Plate subduction zone. -
Papua New Guinea Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0M and a death toll of 2,200 people. The earthquake occurred along the boundary of the Australian and Pacific plates. It was a dip-slip fault. The tsunami was 15m or 49ft high. -
Sumatra Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2M and a death toll 227,898 people. This earthquake was the third largest ever recorded. It was a megathrust earthquake and the tsunami was 30m or 100ft high. -
Samoa Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1M and the death toll was greater then 189.The submarine earthquake occurred on the outer rise of the Kennedy Tongue subduction zone. The tsunami was 14m or 46ft high. -
Chile Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8M and a death toll of 525. parts of the tsunami damaged San Diego, CA and the Tohoku region of Japan. The earthquake lasted 3 minutes. -
Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0-9.1M and had a death toll of 19,747. Since the original earthquake, there have been 13,386 aftershocks. The tsunami affected the pacific rim and cause $360 billion USD in damage. -
Sulawesi Earthquake Tsunami
The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.5M and a death toll of 4,340 people. It caused 32 aftershocks and the tsunami was 4-7m or 13-23 ft high. The liquefaction from the earthquake is considered to be the largest in the world and is considered rare.