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Tsunami in Libson, Portugal in 1755 killed an estimated 20,000 people. This tsunami was caused by a magnitude 9 earthquake.
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Tsunami in the Sundra Strait in 1883 killed more than 36,000 people. This tsunami was actually not caused by an earthquake so there in no earthquake magnitude.
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Tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands in 1946 killed about 160 people. The earthquake that caused this was actually in the Aleutians with a magnitude of an 8.1.
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Tsunami in Hawaii in 1960 killed 61 people. This earthquake traveled across the Pacific Ocean for 15 hours from Chile with a magnitude of a 9.5.
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Tsunami in Alaska and California in 1964 killed about 130 people. This tsunami was caused by an earthquake that was in Alaska that had a magnitude of 9.2.
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Tsunami in Okushiri Island, Japan in 1993 killed 120 people. This tsunami was caused by an earthquake in the Sea of Japan with a magnitude of 7.8.
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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 1998 in Papua New Guinea trggered a submarine landslide that produced a tsunami that killed more than 21,000 people.
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Tsunami in Sumatra in 2004 killed about 230,000 people. This earthquake that caused the tsunami was a magnitude of 9.1.
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Tsunami in Samoa in 2009 killed about 230,000 people. This earthquake that caused the tsunami was a magnitude of 8.1.
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Tsunami in Chile in 2010 killed about 700 people in coastal towns. The earthquake that caused the tsunami was a magnitude of 8.8.
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Tsunami in Japan in 2011 killed over 20,000 people. The earthquake that caused the tsunami was a magnitude of 9.1.
