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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
In 1755 a major earthquake happened with the magnitude of 9, This earthquake happened from sea fault and tectonic plate boundaries. This killed 20,000 people and harmed and very destructive. -
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Tsunamis
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Krakatoa Eruption
On August 26th 1883 a eruption happened, This caused a major tsunami and killed 36,000 people and major damage. -
Aleutian Earthquake
On April 1st 1946 a major earthquake happened because of thrust faulting 8.1 magnitude of the earthquake. This caused a huge tsunami and killed 160 people -
Great Chilean earthquake
On May 3rd 1960 a major earthquake took place with the magnitude of 9.5 this was caused because of breaking of rocks, This caused a tsunami and killed 61 people. -
Good friday earthqake
On March 27th, 1964 a earthquake was formed because with the magnitude of 9.2 and this caused a tsunami and killed 130 people. -
Hokkaido Earthquake Japan
On July 12,1993 A major tsunami happened and killed over 120 people. This happened because of a earthquake and effected the off shore island as well this earthquake magnitude was a 7.8 -
Papua New Guinea
On July 17th, 1998 a giant tsunami happened because of a earthquake which had a magnitude of 7.1 this was caused because of a massive underwater land slide. This resulted in killing 2,100 people and damaging alot -
Sumarta Earthquake
On December 26th 2004, A tectonic subduction zone in the India plate caused a huge earthquake with the magnitude of 9.1 and killed 230,000 people and a large tsuname -
Samoa Earthquake
On September 29th 2009 Two large earthquake happened and they didn't know why and had a magnitude of 8.1 and killed 200 people and this resulted in them having a tsunami -
Chile Earthquake
On February 27th 2010 a earthquake struck off the coast and this caused a major earthquake with the magnitude of 8.8, This caused a tsunami in which killed 700 people and did some pretty bad damage -
Tohuku Earthquake
On March 11th 2011 a major earthquake hit tohku because of thrust faulting and this earthquakes magnitude was a 9.1 and resulted in a tsunami and killed over 20,000 -
Sulawesi
On September 27th 2018 a major earthquake happened because of a fault line palu kori and this had a magnitude of 6.2 and this triggered a tsunami and killed 4,340