Most damaging tsunamis

  • Lisbon earthquake

    Lisbon earthquake

    Nov 1755 (8.5-9) Lisbon Portugal, earthquake produces and tsunami alongside with an earthquake that killed over 200,000 people
  • Krakatoa eruption

    Krakatoa eruption

    Explosion that caused the top of a volcanos to collapse into an ocean
  • Hokkaido earthquake

    Hokkaido earthquake

    Earthquake in the Sea of Japan caused a tsunami
  • Aleutian earthquake

    Aleutian earthquake

    Alaska earthquake generated a deadly tsunami that killed 130
  • Good Friday earthquake

    Good Friday earthquake

    Alaska earthquake that generated a deadly Esther quake in California
  • Papua New Guinea

    Papua New Guinea

    An earthquake triggered a submarine landslide
  • Sumatra earthquake

    Sumatra earthquake

    Generated a tsunami that killed 230,000 people
  • Samoa earthquake

    Samoa earthquake

    Generated a tsunami that killed 200 people
  • Chili earthquake

    Chili earthquake

    Chile earthquake 700 people in coastal towns
  • tohoku earhtquake

    tohoku earhtquake

    Japan earthquake over 20,000 people
  • Great Chilean earthquake

    Great Chilean earthquake

    Triggered a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii