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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal) Magnitude: 9 Death Toll: About 20,000
In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon. -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra) Magnitude: 6 Death Toll: More than 36,000
This 1883 eruption generated the loudest sound ever reported in history. -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska) Magnitude: 8.1 Death Toll: About 160
Estimate about 26 million in damage from earthquake. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile) Magnitude: 9.5 Death Toll: 61
It was the most powerful earthquake in recorded history with a 9.5 magnitude. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska) Magnitude: 9.2 Death Toll: About 130
Port Valdez suffered a massive underwater landslide from the earthquake. -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan) Magnitude: 7.2 Death Toll: 120
Devastated Okushiri Island & shores of Hokkaido. -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea) Magnitude: Death Toll: 7.1 More than 2100
The country did not have a communication plan put into place. -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia) Magnitude: 9.1 Death Toll: About 230,000
Material losses were estimated at 10 billion. -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands) Magnitude: 8.1 Death Toll: About 200
Generated by unusual type of trench earthquake. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile) Magnitude: 8.8 Death Toll: About 700
Nearly 400,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan) Magnitude: 9.1 Death Toll: Over 20,000
Multiple aftershocks continued, many over magnitude 7.0 -
Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia) Magnitude: 5.6 Death Toll: 832
68,000 homes damaged or destroyed leaving so many people still displaced.
