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Lisbon Earthquake-Portugal
The Lisbon Earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0 and a death toll of 20000.Many of the people in Lisbon were worshiping in church when the earthquake happened. -
Krakatoa Eruption- Java/Sumatra
The Krakatoa eruption has no magnitude and death rate of 36000. It was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history. -
Aleutian Earthquake- Alaska
The Aleutian earthquake has a magnitude of 8.1 and had a death rate of 160.The tallest tsunami wave height was 219 feet (67 m) in Shoup Bay in the Valdez Inlet. -
Great Chilean Earthquake- Chile
The Great Chilean earthquake has a magnitude of 4.5 and a death toll of 61. There were waves as high as 35 feet. -
Good Friday Earthquake
The Good Friday Earthquake was on march 27, 1964 with a magnitude of 9.2 and killed 130m people. It lasted 4 minutes and 38 seconds. -
Hokkaido Earthquake
The Hokkaido earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 and killed 120 people.The $600 million in property losses were attributed primarily to the tsunami. -
Papua New Guinea Quake
Papua New Guinea Quake had a magnitude of 7.1 and killed 2100 people. The highest wave was 49 feet tall and the average wave was 34 feet tall. -
Chile Earthquake
The Chile Earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8 and killed 700 people. A study of the aftershocks released in 2014 indicated that two anomalously dense rock structures beneath the South American Plate, previously undetected, had likely slowed the rupture and, as a result, intensified shaking at the surface. -
Sumatra Earthquake
The Sumatra Earthquake had a magnitude of 9.1 and killed 230,000 people. It ruptured the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake, spanning a distance of 900 miles, or longer than the state of California. -
Samoa Earthquake
The Samoa Earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1 and killed 200 people.Twenty villages on Upolu south side were reportedly destroyed, including Lepa, the home of Samoa's Prime Minister. -
Tohoku Earthquake
The Tohoku Earthquake had a magnitude of 9.1 and killed 20000 people.It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
