Tsunami timeline

  • Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)

    Magnitude 8.5-9.0/ Casualtics 10,000-100,000
  • Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)

    Casualitics 36,000
  • Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)

    Maggnitude 8.6/ $26 million in damage
  • Great Chilean Earthquake

    Magnitude 9.4-9.6/ Casualties 1,000 - 7,000/ Most Powerful Earthquake ever recorded
  • Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)

    Magnitude 9.2/ Number of Deaths 139/ Total damage $311 million
  • Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)

    Magnitude 7.7/ Casualties 220
  • Papua New Guinea Quake

    Magnitude 7/ Casualties 2,183 - 2,700 dead and thousands injured
  • Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)

    Magnitude 9.1 - 9.3/ Casualties 227,898 dead/ Total damage $15 billion
  • Samoa Earthquake

    Magnitude 8.1/ Number of casualties 119 most of the damage seems to be in the idyllic south coast of Samoa
  • Chile Earthquake

    Magnitude 8.8/ Number of casualties 325/ There was intense shaking for 3min
  • Tohoku Earthquake

    Magnitude 9/ 15,897 deaths, plus 2 over seas/ 6,157 injured 2,532 people missing/ Total damage $360 billion