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Lisbon Earthquake(Portugal)
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, occurred in the Kingdom of Portugal on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. Seismologists today estimate the Lisbon earthquake had a magnitude in the range 8.5–9.0 on the moment magnitude scale. -
Krakatoa Eruption(Java\Sumatra)
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait began on the afternoon of Sunday, 26 August 1883. The eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history and explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,110 kilometers (1,930 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia, and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 kilometers (3,000 mi) away. At least 36,417 deaths are attributed to the eruption and the tsunamis it created. -
Aleutian Earthquake(Alaska)
The Aleutian earthquake (M8.1) produced a tsunami on the Hawaiin Islands that killed 160 people. Over $26 million in damage. The seafloor along the fault was elevated, triggering a Pacific-wide tsunami with multiple destructive waves at heights ranging from 45–130 ft. -
Aleutian Earthquake(Alaska)
The Aleutian earthquake (M8.1) produced a tsunami in the Hawaiin islands that killed 160 people. Over $26 million in damage. The seafloor along the fault was elevated, triggering a Pacific-wide tsunami with multiple destructive waves at heights ranging from 45–130 ft. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chili)
The Chili Earthquake (M9.5) triggered a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii after traveling for 15 hours across the pacific ocean. The earthquake hit at 3:11 PM approximately 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of Chile, parallel to the city of Valdivia. The shock is generally agreed to have had a magnitude of 9.5, though some studies alternately proposed that it may have been 9.4 or 9.6. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
The 1964 Alaska earthquake (M9.2) generated a deadly tsunami that killed 130 people. Six hundred miles (970 km) of fault ruptured at once and moved up to 60 ft (18 m), releasing about 500 years of stress buildup. Soil liquefaction, fissures, landslides, and other ground failures caused major structural damage in several communities and much damage to property. -
Hokkaido Earthquake(Japan)
on 12 July 1993 in the Sea of Japan near the island of Hokkaido. It had a magnitude of 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum felt the intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It triggered a major tsunami that caused deaths on Hokkaidō and in southeastern Russia, with a total of 230 fatalities recorded. The island of Okushiri was hardest hit, with 165 casualties from the earthquake, the tsunami, and a large landslide. -
Papua New Guinea Quake(Papua New Guinea)
The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake occurred on July 17 with a moment magnitude of 7.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The event occurred on a reverse fault near the north coast region of Papua New Guinea, 25 kilometers (16 mi) from the coast near Aitape, and caused a large undersea landslide which caused a tsunami that hit the coast, killing between at least 2,183 and 2,700 people and injuring thousands. -
Sumatra Earthquake(Indonesia)
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicenter off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas. The earthquake was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate. Tsunami killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. -
Samoa Earthquake(Samoan Islands)
The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. The submarine earthquake occurred in an extensional environment and had a moment magnitude of 8.1. It was the largest earthquake of 2009. Countries affected by the tsunami in the areas that were hit are American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga (Niuatoputapu) where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa. -
Chili Earthquake(Chile)
The 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February. Having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes. It was felt strongly in six Chilean regions, that together makeup about 80 percent of the country's population. According to official sources, 525 people lost their lives, 25 people went missing[4] and about 9% of the population in the affected regions lost their homes. -
Tohoku Earthquake(Japan)
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately 70 kilometers east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at evacuation sites, more than a hundred of which washed away.
