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Lisbon Earthquake
7.7 magnitude, 45,00 deaths, accentuated political tensions in Portugal and disrupted the Portugese empire -
Krakatoa eruption
VEI of 6, 36,417 deaths, Had and explosive force of a 200-megatone bomb -
Aleutian Earthquake
8.6 magnitude, 165 deaths, Wave heights reached near 115 feet in Alaska -
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
magnitude of 8.5, 131 deaths, was felt over an area of almost 500,000 sq. miles -
Hokkaido Earthquake
Magnitude of 7.7, 230 deaths, felt intensity of VIII on the mercalli scale -
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
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
Magnitude of 8.0, 189 Deaths, Caused by normal faulting of the pacific plate near the outer rise -
Chile Earthquake
Magnitude of 8.8, 525 deaths, Intense shaking lasted about 3 minutes, cost of damage was around $30 Billion -
Tohoku Earthquake
Magnitude of 9.0, 19,759 deaths, strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan. -
Sulawesi Earthquake
Magnitude of 7.5, 4,340 deaths, caused by a strike slip faulting on the palu-koro fault