Tsunami Timetoast

  • Lisbon Earthquake

    Lisbon Earthquake
    7.7 magnitude, 45,00 deaths, accentuated political tensions in Portugal and disrupted the Portugese empire
  • Krakatoa eruption

    Krakatoa eruption
    VEI of 6, 36,417 deaths, Had and explosive force of a 200-megatone bomb
  • Aleutian Earthquake

    Aleutian Earthquake
    8.6 magnitude, 165 deaths, Wave heights reached near 115 feet in Alaska
  • Great Chilean Earthquake

    Great Chilean Earthquake
    9.5 Magnitude, 1655 Deaths, A sudden breaking in the rocks along a roughly 560-620 mile stretch of the nazca plate caused this.
  • Good friday earthquake

    Good friday earthquake
    magnitude of 8.5, 131 deaths, was felt over an area of almost 500,000 sq. miles
  • Hokkaido Earthquake

    Hokkaido Earthquake
    Magnitude of 7.7, 230 deaths, felt intensity of VIII on the mercalli scale
  • Papua New Guinea Earthquake

    Papua New Guinea Earthquake
    Magnitude of 7.0, 9,934 deaths, Caused by a large submarine landslide which caused a tsunami that hit the coast.
  • Sumatra Earthquake

    Sumatra Earthquake
    Magnitude of 9.2, 227,898 deaths, Known as one of the deadliest disasters in history, caused by the indian plate subducting the burma plate
  • Somoa Earthquake

    Somoa Earthquake
    Magnitude of 8.0, 189 Deaths, Caused by normal faulting of the pacific plate near the outer rise
  • Chile Earthquake

    Chile Earthquake
    Magnitude of 8.8, 525 deaths, Intense shaking lasted about 3 minutes, cost of damage was around $30 Billion
  • Tohoku Earthquake

    Tohoku Earthquake
    Magnitude of 9.0, 19,759 deaths, strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan.
  • Sulawesi Earthquake

    Sulawesi Earthquake
    Magnitude of 7.5, 4,340 deaths, caused by a strike slip faulting on the palu-koro fault