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Lisbon earthquake(Portugal)
the earthquake had a (m9) Magnitude it killed an estimated 20,000 people. The earthquake happend on all saints day. the fires that started burned for five days. -
Krakatoa Eruption(Java/Sumatra)
The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.5. it killed more than 36,000 people the sound of the volcano could be herad as far as perth in Australia. the volcano collaspesed and triggered a seires of tsunamis. -
Aleutian Earthquake(Alaska)
magnitude of the earthquake was 8.1. It killed about 160 people. The earthquake caused deadly tsunamis and killer landslides. the shaking lasted more than four minutes. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
magnitude of 9.5. it killed 61 people in Hawaii. the earthquake shifted the earths axis and shortenened the lenghths of a day by 1.26microseconds. -
Good Friday Earthquake(Alaska)
It had magnitude of 9.2. the Earthquake killed about 130 people in Alaska and in Cailfornia. this earthquake caused an underwater landslide that washed away the waterfront area of valdez and resulted in the loss of 32 lives. this was also the largest earthquake recored in northamerica. -
Hokkaido earthquake (Japan
the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8. it killed 230 people, the earthquake triggerd a tsunami that caused death on the island Hokkaido, the island that was hit the hardest was the island of Okushiri. -
Papua New Guinea earthquake(Papua New Guinea)
this earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1, it killed more than 2,100 people. the quake caused an undersea landslide causeing a tsunami to from that hit the coast and killed between at least 2,183 peole and 2,700 people it also caused injuries to even more thousands of pepole. -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
this Earthquake had a magntitude of 9.1. it killed about 230,000 people. the earthquake was estimated to have released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima type atomic bombs. -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
this devastataing earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1. it killed about 200 people. the earthquake generated tsunanami waves of up to 22 meters or 72 ft that engulfed the shores killing at least 192 pepole -
Chile earthquake (Chile)
the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8, it aslo killed about 700 people. two hundred twenty thousand homes were destroyed along whith 4500 schools, 56 hospitals and 53 ports. santiago airport and the port of talahuanao were serverlely damaged. -
Tohoku earthquake (Japan
this massive earthquake had a magnitude of 9.1, it killed over 20,000 pepole.the temblor shortenened the length of a day by about a microsecond. after the earthquake japan had 5,000 aftershoocks that year. -
Sulawesi earthquake(Indonesia)
this awful earthquake had a magnitude of 7.5 and killed an estimated 4,340 people. the authorities estimated that 2.4 million people were affected by this earthquake.