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The Libson earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0. The death toll was approximately 20,000. It occurred on the holy day of All Saint's Day. Also, the flames raged on for five days afterward.
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This eruption had a death toll of over 36,000. Over 70% of the land around it collapsed. Additionally, seismic activity was carried into the next year (1884).
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This earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1. Also, the death toll was around 160 people. There were no warnings for the tsunamis as the warning posts were all destroyed. The effects of this strong tsunami even reached the West coast of the US mainland.
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The Great Chilean Earthquake had a magnitude of 9.5. The death toll reached to 61 people. The waves of this tsunami got all the way up to 82 feet. Over 150,000 square miles were affected by this natural disaster.
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This earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2. Around 130 people died because of this natural disaster. Some areas of land raised over 30 feet. The tsunami was so large that waves were noted by over 20 other countries.
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The Hokkaido Earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 and a death toll of 230 people. The warning for the earthquake was only five minutes before it happened, which did not give people enough time to evacuate. The landslide moved around 150,000 m^3 of rock.
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This quake had a magnitude of 7.1. The death toll reached over 2,100 people.
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The magnitude of this earthquake was around 9.2. The death toll reached over a massive number of 230,000 people. The Indian plate got subducted by the Burma plate. There were waves up to 100 feet high with this tsunami.
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This earthquake had a magnitude of 8.1. The death toll reached 189 people. There was a 3 inch rise in sea levels during this tsunami. It occurred on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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The Chile Earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8 and a death toll of around 700 people. The intense shaking lasted for 3 minutes. It also affected around 80% of the population in some way or another.
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The Tohoku Earhquake had a 9.0 magnitude and a death toll of 15,894 people. This was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan. So strong, that it shifted the Earth on it's axis by estimates of 4-10 inches.
