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Tsunami Timeline

  • Lisbon Portugal

    Lisbon Portugal
    Earthquake that produced a tsunami that killed an estimated of 20,000people and with waves with heights of 7m(23ft)_
  • Krakatoa Volcano

    Krakatoa Volcano
    The volcano in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra caused the top of the volcano to collapse into the ocean. This sudden collapse produced a giant tsunami more than 35m(115ft) that destroyed 165 villages and killed more than 36,000 people
  • Aleutian Earthquake

    Aleutian Earthquake
    This earthquake produced a tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands that killed about 160 people. The tsunami struck without warning after 5 hours of the eaerthquake
  • Chile Earthquake

    Chile Earthquake
    Earthquake triggered tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii after traveling for 15 hours across the Pacific OCean
  • Alaska Earthquake

    Alaska Earthquake
    Earthquake that generated deadly tsunami killing about 130 people in Alaska and California
  • Sea of Japan

    Sea of Japan
    An earthquake in the sea of japan caused a tsunami that killed 120 on Okushiri Island, Japan
  • Papua New Guinea

    Papua New Guinea
    This earthquake triggered a submarine landslide that produced a tsunami that killed more than 2100 people.
  • Summatra Earthquake

    Summatra Earthquake
    Earthquake that generated a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people. The earthquake is thought to have had the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs
  • Samoa Earthquake

    Samoa Earthquake
    Tsunami that killed around 200 people. The waves were up to 22 meters high(72 ft)
  • Chile earthquake

    Chile earthquake
    The tsunami killed about 700 in coastal towns. 225,000 homes were destroyed along with 4500 schools 56 hospitals and 53 ports
  • Japan Earthquake

    Japan Earthquake
    Generated a tsunami that killed over 20,000 people. Waves were estimated to be 38 meters high, the height of a 12 story building. Over 500,00 were forced to evacuate and a nuclear power plant meltdown triggered nuclear emergency
  • Sulawesi Earthquake

    Sulawesi Earthquake
    The M was 7.5 and about 4000 dead 10000 injured and 70000 evacuated