Most damaging Tsunamis

  • Libson Earthquake (portugal)

    Libson Earthquake (portugal)
    8.5 magnitude and 60k people on the death toll some interesting facts about this terrible event is 3 waves all up to 30 meters high and rose up to 1.5meters
  • Krakatoa Eruption

    Krakatoa Eruption
    200 megatons of TNT 40k on the death toll and an interesting fact is around 2k people died from the eruption of volcano and multiple waves around 40 meters.
  • Aleutian Earthquake

    Aleutian Earthquake
    momentum magnitude 8.6m tsunami map of 9.3 the death toll of 160 to 180 people and an interesting fact is the earthquake was longer than four minutes it caused multiple landslides too, also spawned several deadly tsunamis
  • Great Chilean Earthquake

    Great Chilean Earthquake
    magnitude of 9.5 and the death toll up to 5.7k people... interesting fact/s is 600 million in property damage and largest earthquake ever recorded
  • Good Friday Earthquake

    Good Friday Earthquake
    magnitude of 9.2 and the death toll of 125 people and it was supposedly the most powerful tremor and was around 3-4 minutes long
  • Hokkaido Earthquake

    Hokkaido Earthquake
    magnitude of 7.7 and the tsunami deaths were 120 but total 185 deaths a interesting fact about this was $600 million in property damage
  • Papua new guinea earthquake

    Papua new guinea earthquake
    magnitude of 5.1-7.0 and the deaths nearing 2.2k dead and it was considered one of the most deadly tsunamis in this century
  • Sumatra Earthquake

    Sumatra Earthquake
    magnitude of 9.7 and the death toll was a high amount... 230 to 240k deaths and an interesting fact was The earthquake and or tsunami was so strong it wobbled the earths rotation axis almost by an inch
  • Samoa Earthquake

    Samoa Earthquake
    magnitude of 8.0 and the death toll being 190+ the large earthquake hit at 6am and it was two large ones
  • Chile Earthquake

    Chile Earthquake
    magnitude of 8.8 and the death toll being 521 dead and 46 people missing. An interesting fact is the wave heights were almost 30 meters and had a uplift of 2m with $30 million in damages.
  • Tohoku Earthquake

    Tohoku Earthquake
    magnitude of 9.1 and 15.8k people killed most powerful earthquake recorded since 1900 4th most powerful worldwide strongly shaking for 3-5 min
  • Sulawesi earthquake

    Sulawesi earthquake
    magnitude of a whopping 7.5 and 2000 plus dead the earthquake lasted about seven seconds.