Top 11 Most Damaging Tsunamis in the Pacific Basin

west Indies tsunami, Lisbon, Portugal

Dec 7, 1755

Magnitude-9, death toll-20,000

Sumatra Strait, Krakatoa

Dec 7, 1883

volcano explosion caused tsunami 35 m. high, death toll-36,000

Hawaiian Islands

Dec 7, 1946

Aleutians (Alaska) Earthquake M 8.1, death toll- 160

Hawaii

Dec 7, 1960

Earthquake- Chile- M 9.2, death toll- 61

Alaska and California

Dec 7, 1964

Alaska earthquake- M 9.2, death toll 130

Okushiri Island, Japan

Dec 7, 1993

earthquake M 7.8, death toll 120

Papua, New Guinea

Dec 7, 1998

Earthquake M 7.1, death toll 21,000

Indonesian Tsunami

Dec 7, 2004

Sumatra earthquake M 9.1, death toll 23,000

Samoa tsunami

Dec 7, 2009

samoa earthquake M 8.1, death toll- 200

Chile tsunami

Dec 7, 2010

earthquake M 8.8, death toll- 700

Japan tsunami

Dec 7, 2011

earthquake M 9.1, death toll- 20,000