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Lisbon Earthquake 1755
The Magnitude 9 quake happened in Lisbon, Portugal November 1st. The quake started a tsunami that reached up to 7 meters (23 ft). The tsunami caused a fire and about 20,000 deaths. The epicenter was located in the Atlantic ocean about 200 km away. -
Krakatoa Eruption 1883
On August 26th, 1883 the volcano known as Krakatoa exploded. The explosion of this volcano caused the top of it to collapse into the ocean and start a tsunami. The waved reached up to 35 meters (115ft). The deadly tsunami killed 36,000 and destroyed 165 villages. -
Aleutian Earthquake 1946
This Aleutian earthquake reached a magnitude of 8.1 and caused 160 deaths. the epicenter found to be in the 13,000 feet below sea level in the north pacific. This tremor caused a tsunami wave which reached heights of 100 feet, and also made its way to the haiwaiian islands -
Chilean Earthquake 1960
The magnitude 9.5 quake caused a tsunami that only killed 6. The tsunami wave reached up to about 25 meters (80ft) in height. The disaster left 2,000,000 people homeless, and 1,300 people injured or missing. -
Good Friday Earthquake 1964
The 9.2 magnitude earthquake, killed 139 people -
Hokkaido Earthquake 1993
The magnitude 7.7 quake started in the sea of Japan. The quake caused killer waves that later killed 230 people. The waves reached heights of 32 meters and managed to reach the coast of other countries such as North Korea, Russia, and South Korea. -
Papua New Guinea Earthquake 1998
This earthquake reached magnitudes of 7.1. This quake caused a large undersea landslide. This landslide caused a tsunami with waves reaching about 15 meters (49ft). This killed about 2,100+ peope. -
Sumatra Earthquake 2004
A magnitude 9.1 quake hit the city of Sumatra making one of the biggest quakes ever recorded. The quake caused a tsunami, the waves reached an unimaginable 9 meters (30ft). The people of the city where not expecting this and had little warning. As an effect of properwarning 230,000 people lost their lives -
Samoa Earthquake 2009
This earthquake was a magnitude 8.1, and caused a killer tsunami wave. The wave was 14 meters high and is said to have killed at least 200 people. -
Chile Earthquake 2010
Another Chilean earthquake caused another massive tsunami which killed about 700 people. The quake reached a magnitude of 8.8 with an epicenter located 325 km away in the capital city of Santiago. Tsunami waves reached heights of 15 meters (30 ft), and traveled at speeds of 450 mph. -
Tohoku Earthquake 2011
This 9.1 magnitude quake caused massive tsunami waves to devastate the coast of Japan. The waves were some of the biggest ever seen at about 405 meters (133 ft) high and traveled 10 km inland. The earthquake was so big that it caused Japan to shift slightly, about 2.4 km (8ft) east. The massive waves caused an estimated 20,000 deaths.
