Tsunamis

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  • Lisbon Earthquake

    Lisbon Earthquake
    The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, occurred in the Kingdom of Portugal on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, the holy day of All Saints' Day, at around 09:40 local time. In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. the total death toll was about 30,000-40,000 people.

  • Krakatoa Tsunami

    Krakatoa Tsunami
    1883 Krakatoa tsunami. In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia. The blast destroyed two-thirds of the island and sent 130-foot-high waves surging across the Indian Ocean, killing 36,500 people from Indonesia to India.

  • Aleution Earthquake

    Aleution Earthquake
    The 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska on April 1. The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.6. It resulted in 165–173 casualties and over $26 million in damage. The earthquake caused a tsunami that was about 46 feet high.

  • Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)

    Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
    The world's largest earthquake with an instrumentally documented magnitude occurred on May 22, 1960 near Valdivia, in southern Chile. It was assigned a magnitude of 9.5. It is referred to as the "Great Chilean Earthquake" after the earthquake it resulted in a tsunami that was about 83 feet which traveled inland and left two million people homeless. Between 1,000 and 6,000 people lost their lives.

  • Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)

    Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
    The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AST on Good Friday, March 27. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 139 deaths. The Good Friday earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2.

  • Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)

    Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
    An earthquake measuring 6.6 MW on the moment magnitude scale struck Iburi Subprefecture in southern Hokkaido, Japan, on 6 September 2018 at 3:08 a.m. Japan Standard Time. The earthquake's epicenter was near Tomakomai and occurred at a depth of 33.4 kilometers. The Japan Meteorological Agency registered a magnitude of 6.7 Mⱼ. 5.3 million residents without power. Nine people died, 366 people were injured.

  • Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)

    Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
    The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that took place in the early evening of Friday, July 17, 1998. The earthquake struck the north coast region of Papua New Guinea, 16 miles from the coast near Aitape, and caused a large undersea landslide, which in turn caused a tsunami that hit the coast.

  • Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)

    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra and a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate. A series of large tsunamis up to 30 metres high were created by the earthquake that became known collectively as the Boxing Day tsunamis.

  • Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)

    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.

  • Chile Earthquake

    Chile Earthquake
    The 2010 Chile earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto del 27F) occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes killing nearly 500 people.

  • Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)

    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 on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful recorded earthquake. It later brought a massive tsunami that reached 41 meters high destroying everything in its path with death tolls at about 1,898.