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This earthquake triggered an extremely dangerous and powerful tsunami that resulted in at least 500 deaths and a surplus of injuries. This was felt along the coast of Colombia and as far north as San Francisco, and west to Japan. -
In this earthquake, 780 people were killed, and many buildings collapsed in eastern Tibet. In addition to this, the earthquake caused several landslides, ground cracking, and damage to infrastructure. -
This event made a Pacific-wide tsunami that caused lots of damage to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands, and was then followed by many small waves that affected Hawaii, Japan, and other parts of the Pacific region. -
This earthquake hit the Aleutian Islands, which were near the Rat Islands. This earthquake made waves up to 13 meters high due to a tsunami which hit the Aleutian Islands and Hawaii. Significant damage was caused, approximately $5 million in property damage. -
This was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. This took place off the coast of southern Chile and caused unfathomable amounts of destruction, killing almost 1,700 people and leaving upwards of 2 million homeless. In addition to this, a massive tsunami resulting from the earthquake caused casualties and damage across the Pacific Ocean, including in Hawaii, Japan, and the Philippines. -
This earthquake was a "mega-thrust earthquake" and, in addition, was the largest in US recorded history. The displacement in tectonic plates, along with landslides, made horrific tsunamis throughout the Pacific, causing widespread damage, sinking areas of land. -
This earthquake caused underthrusting along the Aleutian Megathrust, where the Pacific plate goes beneath the North American plate. This earthquake breached and damaged a 600km long segment of the western Aleutian Islands and triggered a very large tsunami, although luckily, there was little to no population, so damage wasn't considered a disaster. -
This earthquake caused the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. The earthquake resulted from thrust faulting where the Indian plate goes under the Sunda plate, displacing vast amounts of water and triggering immense waves that caused widespread death and destruction across the Indian Ocean. The tragic event killed almost 230,000 people. -
This earthquake was caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate, which, in addition, caused extremely strong shaking. After the initial shaking, a destructive tsunami and significant damage occurred. The event led to over 500 deaths, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and resulted in economic losses exceeding $30 billion. -
This earthquake struck the coast of Japan's Tōhoku region, causing a massive tsunami with waves up to 40 meters high that devastated coastal communities, killed an estimated 20,000 people, and led to the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdowns.