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Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal
Magnitude of 8.5-9.0 and death toll of 10,000-100,000 people. many of the people affected by the quake were in church when it hit. the fires that started during the quake burned for five days. -
Krakatoa Eruption, Java/ Sumatra
Magnitude of 6 and death toll of 36,417 people. the force from the quake was about 13,000 times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. 165 villages surrounding Krakatoa were destroyed. -
Aleutian Earthquake, Alaska
Magnitude of 7.9 and death toll of 165-173 people. Most people were killed by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. in Chenega, 25 of the villages 76 residents were drowned. -
Great chilies Earthquake, Chile
Magnitude of 8.8 and death toll of 700. the earthquake was proceeded by 3 more earthquakes, known has the 1960 conception earthquakes. it was caused due to the subduction of haze plate under the South American plate. -
Good Friday Earthquake, Alaska
Magnitude of 9.2 and death toll of 139. second most powerful earthquake ever recorded. the quake caused many tsunamis that inflicted damage on the towns of Valdez, Whittier, Seward and kodiak. -
Hokkaido Earthquake, Japan
Magnitude of 7.7 and death toll of 239. Waves 5-10 meters tall crashed on the shoreline and many fishing villages were destroyed. -
Papua New Guinea Earthquake
Magnitude of 7 and death toll of 2183-2700. The maximum height of the waves was estimated at being 15 m (49 ft) high with an average height of 10.5 m (34 ft). The scale of that disaster did not become apparent for days due to PNG's poor communications and infrastructure. -
Sumatra earthquake, Indonesia
Magnitude of 8.8-9.2 and death toll of 227,898. The province of Aceh in Sumatra was hit by the largest tsunami, with waves growing as high as 30 meters. Fourteen countries were affected by the earthquake and tsunami. -
Samoa Earthquake, Samoan Islands
Magnitude of 8.1 and death toll of 119. The earthquake generated tsunami waves of up to 22 meters (72 feet) that engulfed the shores. Affected Tonga and Samoa Islands. -
Chile Earthquake, Chile
Magnitude of 8.8 and death toll of 500. The initial event was succeeded in the following weeks by hundreds of aftershocks, many of them of magnitude 5.0 or greater. A 2014 study contended that water pressure built up between the two plates had been the catalyst. -
Tohoku Earthquake, Japan
Magnitude of 9-9.1 and death toll of 15,894. was a undersea megathrust earthquake. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake struck offshore of Japan, along a subduction zone where two of Earth's tectonic plates collide. In a subduction zone, one plate slides beneath another into the mantle, the hotter layer beneath the crust. -
Sulawesi Earthquake, Indonesia
Magnitude of 6.1 and death toll of 1,374. The vibrations from the earthquake caused soil liquefaction that destroyed hundreds of homes and swept victims away in rivers of flowing soil.
