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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
In Portugal on November 1st, 1755 the Lisbon Earthquake struck with a Magnitude of 8.5-9.0. In the first two minutes of the earthquake, over 30,000 people were killed. Only 30 minutes after the earthquke a tsunami came roaring into the city of Lisbon, during a huge celebration of a holiday called "All Saints Day". -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
The Kratatoa Eruption in Java/Sumatra had a death toll of 35,000 casualties, with a magnitude of 6.0 that rates as colossal. The blast of the Krakatoa Eruption was equal to three thousand Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. The noise was the loudest in recorded history and was heard distinctly in central austria three thousand kilometers away. -
Aleutian Earthquake (Alaska)
The 7.4 magnitude Aleutian Earthquake in Alaska had 173 casualties and twenty-six million dollar damage. Thirteen thousand feet beneath the North Pacific Ocean the trmor was recorded, after the earthquake caused by this tremor it is said "As the first wave came in and receded, the water seemed to disappear. Boats were left on the sea floor next to flopping fish. Then a massive tsunami struck". -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
During the Great Chilean Earthquake with a magnitude of 9.4-9.6, in Chile, two thousand lives were lost. This earthquake in specific that caused a tsunami was the largest earthquake ever recorded. The damages were up to a five-hundred fifty million dollar reconstruction cost. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
In Alaska, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake known as the Good Friday Earthquake claimed 139 lives. The damage totaled to cost three hundred million dollars in 1964, which now would equal roughly two point three bllion dollars. -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
The Hokkaido Earthquake in Japan had a Magnitude of 7.8 and killed two hundred thirty nine people. After the devestating loss of life there was a memorial made with fifteen million dollar stain glass windows for each victim killed. -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
The Papua New Guinea Quake had a magnitude of 7.0 and a death toll of two thousand one hundred eighty-three to around two thousand seven hundred. There was no warning of the earthquake and it left thousands dead and more than six thousand homeless -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
The astounding Sumatra Earthquake in Indonesia with a 9.1 magnitude left two hundred twenty seven thousand eight hundred nintey eight people in fourteen different countries dead. The earthquake was the third largest ever recorded and had the longest duration of faulting ever observed. -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
The Samoa Earthquake in 2009 had a magnitude of 8.1 and killed one hundred eighty-nine people. Although, the generating earthquake was different from those that most commonly trigger tsunamis. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
The Chile Earthquake in 2010 had a magnitude of 8.8 and left five hundred twenty-five dead and twenty-five left missing. Because of the regions violent tectonic history, it made it a focus of seismological study and monotoring. -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
With a Magnitude of 9.0-9.1, the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan killed 15,896 people, left 6,157 people injured, and 2,537 people missing. After the earthquake the Fukushima Dilchi nuclear power plant cooling system was damaged, leaving people worried about a meltdown.
