-
Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
The magnitude was 9 and it killed 20,000 people. The waves crossed the Alantic Ocean amplified to heights of 7 m -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
There was no tool to figure out the magnitude but it killed more than 36,000 people. It was a violent explosion of Krakatoa volcano in the Sundra Strait -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
The magnitude was 8.1 and killed 160 people. An earthquake produced this. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
The magnitude was 9.5, killed 61 people and it traveled across the Pacific Ocean for 15 hours -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
The magnitude was 8.1 and it killed 160 people. The damaged totaled was about $300 million -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
The magnitude was7.8 and it killed around 120 people. There were new escape routes provided and help was given for households to purchase emergency broadcast receivers -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
The magnitude was 7.1 and killed around 2,000 people. There were many shocks hitting other towns and the epicenter -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
The magnitude was 9.1 and killed 230,000 people.The level of damage to the economy was minor, the only effecting ones were fishing and tourism -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Island)
The magnitude was 8.1 and killed 200 people. They were about 20 villages destroyed from this earthquake. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
The magnitude was .8 and killed 700 people. Nearly half the places in the country were declared "catastrophe zones" and curfews were imposed in some areas of looting and public disorder. -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
the magnitude was 9.1 and killed 20,000 people. Most of the damage was caused from the tsunami, there were no parts of structure left over
