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Lisbon Earthquake (Portugal)
The magnitude was 9 metes and the total death toll was20,000 people.Tsunami waves that cross the Atlantic Ocean amplified to heights of 7 meters (23 inches). -
Krakatoa Eruption (Java/Sumatra)
The magnitude was 6 meters and the total death toll was 36,000 people. This quake destroyed 165 villages and had waves that were about 115 feet high. -
Aleutian earthquake (Alaska)
The magnitude was 8.1 meter and the total death toll was 160 people. It was produced in the Hawaiian Islands. -
Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile)
The magnitude was 9.5 meters and the total death toll was 61 people. It left two million homeless and the rupture zone stretched almost one thousand kilometers. -
Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska)
The magnitude was 9.2 meters and the total death toll was 130 people. This was the second most powerful earthquake and the total cost in damage was approximately one hundred and sixteen dollars. -
Hokkaido Earthquake (Japan)
The magnitude was 4.6 meters and the total death toll was 120 people.The cost in damage was about 360 billion dollars and 815 homes were destroyed. -
Papua New Guinea Quake (Papua New Guinea)
The magnitude was 6.6 meter and the total death toll was 100 people. It triggered land slides, the Hela and Southern Highland Provinces were the worst affected. -
Sumatra Earthquake (Indonesia)
The magnitude was between 9.1 and 9.314 meters and the total death toll was 230,000 people. This earthquake lasted 10 minutes. The materials lost in the Indian Ocean costed 10 billion dollars. -
Samoa Earthquake (Samoan Islands)
The magnitude was 8.1 meters and the total death toll was 200 people. It was an outer-rise earthquake, and the cost in damage was $200 million. -
Chile Earthquake (Chile)
The magnitude was 8.8 meters and the total death toll was 525 people. Nazea and South American plates started converging and the cost in damage was $30 billion. -
Tohoku Earthquake (Japan)
The magnitude was 9.1 meters and the total death toll was 16,000 people. This was the most powerful recorded earthquake since 1900 and the cost in damage reached about $199 billion. -
Sulawesi Earthquake (Indonesia)
The magnitude was 7.5 meters and the total death toll was 2,000 people. The vibrations from the earthquake caused soil liquefaction that destroyed hundreds of homes and swept victims away in rivers of soil.
