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Ecuador-Colombia Earthquake
The tsunami spread along the coast of Central America, and even stretched to San Francisco and Japan.
The earthquake occurred along the boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. The earthquake is likely to be a result of thrust-faulting, caused by the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate.
Magnitude: 8.8 Deaths: 1,500 -
Assam-Tibet
Cracks developed in the ground and large landslides occurred, and a village slid into a river and was washed away. Severe damage was also experienced in Assam, India and the vicinity.
The quake struck at the intersection of the most vigorous collision of continental plates on the planet, where the Indian continental plate smashes into the Eurasian plate and dives beneath it. The slow-motion crash helped create the massive Himalayas.
Magnitude: 8.6 Deaths: 780 -
Kamchatka Earthquakes, Russia
The world’s first recorded magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the east coast of Kamchatka in 1952. A large tsunami resulted, causing destruction and loss of life around the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kuril Islands. Hawaii was also struck, with estimated damages of up to US$1 million and livestock losses, but no human casualties were recorded.
Magnitude: 9.0 Mw Deaths: ? -
Valdivia Earthquake, Southern Chile
It occurred in the afternoon and it´s resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
Magnitude: 9.5 Mw Deaths: 1,655 -
Alaskan Earthquake
It was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the second most powerful ever measured by seismograph.
Magnitude: 9.2 Deaths: 141 -
Rat Islands, Alaska
Flooding from the tsunami caused $10,000 worth of damage on Amchitka Island. Minor damage from the earthquake was recorded on both Attu and Shemya islands in the form of cracks in runways. -
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Earthquake in the Indian Ocean
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Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.
Magnitude: 9.1 Mw Deaths: 227,898 -
Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
The earthquake occurred at 16:09:36 UTC, on 28 March 2005. The earthquake lasted for about two minutes in total. The quake ruptured below the surface of the Indian Ocean, where the Indo-Australian Plate is pushing under the Eurasian plate at the Sunda trench, similar to the 2004 quake.
Magnitude: 8.6 Deaths: 1300 -
Offshore Maule, Chile
It was felt strongly in six Chilean regions.
The earthquake triggered a tsunami which devastated several coastal towns in south-central Chile and damaged the port at Talcahuano.
Magnitude: 8.8 Deaths: 525 -
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan
It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world since modern record. This earthquake is the largest ever recorded in Japan.
Magnitude: 9.0 Mw Deaths: 15,870
