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Lisbon Earthquake
Magnitude - 9
Death Toll - 20,000 people
- The tsunami waves that crossed the Atlantic reached up to 23 ft in the West Indies. -
Krakatoa Eruption
Magnitude - unknown
Death Toll - 165 villages and killed 36,000 people
- Explosion of Krakatoa volcano (top of volcano collapsed into the ocean)
- Waves reached 115 ft high -
Aleutian Earthquake
Magnitude - 8.1
Death Toll - 160 people
- Tsunami occurred in the Hawaiian Islands -
Great Chilean Earthquake
Magnitude 9.5
Death Toll - 61 people
- In Hawaii
- It traveled 15 hours across the Pacific -
Good Friday Earthquake
Magnitude - 9.2
Death Toll - 130 people
- Took place in Alaska and California -
Hokkaido Earthquake
Magnitude - 7.8
Death Toll - 120 people
- Occurred on Okushiri island -
Papua New Guinea Quake
Magnitude - 7.1
Death Toll - More than 2,100 people
- Triggered a submarine landslide -
Sumatra Earthquake
Magnitude - 9.1
Death Toll - 230,000 people
- This earthquake and tsunami is the 10th-deadliest natural disaster in history by estimated death toll -
Samoa Earthquake
Magnitude - 8.1
Death Toll - 200 people -
Chile Earthquake
Magnitude - 8.8
Death Toll - 700 people
- Hit coastal towns
-The epicenter was located 200 miles southwest of the Chilean capital of Santiago, and the focus occurred at a depth of about 22 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. -
Tohoku Earthquake
Magnitude - 9.1
Death Toll - over 20,000 people
- More than 5,000 aftershocks hit Japan in the year after the earthquake
- About 250 miles of Japan's northern Honshu coastline dropped by 2 feet
