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Assam-Tibet Earthquake
Magnitude: 8.6
Location: India
Made 5 000 000 homeless -
Laki
Location: Iceland
Emitted 14.7km 3 of lava -
Mt. Tambora
Location: Indonesia
Caused a worldwide temperature drop, causing failed crops for farmers -
Krakatoa Tsunami
killed over 36 000 people -
Krakatoa
Location: Indonesia
Cost of eruption was as high as $1.5 billion -
Mt. Peele
Location: Caribbean
Out of 28 000 people living in St. Pierre, only 2 survived -
Ecuador-Columbia Earthquake
Magnitude: 8.8
Location: Between Ecuador and Columbia
Most powerful earthquake recorded -
Kamchatka Earthquake
Magnitude: 9.0
Location: Kamchatka Peninsula
waves travelled as far as new Zealand -
Valdivia Earthquake
Magnitude: 9.5
Location: Coast of Chile
Lasted for 10 minutes, triggered a tsunami -
Great Alaska Earthquake
Magnitude: 9.5
Location: Prince William
Caused a massive underwater landslide -
Rat Islands Earthquake
Magnitude: 8.7
Location: Alaska
Damaged Alaska, Hawaii, and California -
Sumatra Earthquake
Magnitude: 9.1
Location: Sumatra, Indonesia -
Sumatra, Indonesia Tsunami
230 000 reported dead -
Maule Earthquake
Magnitude: 8.8
Location: Chile
Shaking lasted for 3 minutes -
Tohoku Earthquake
Magnitude: 9.1
Location: coast of Japan
caused nucellar accidents -
North Pacific Coast, Japan Tsunami
18 000 people reported dead -
Indian Ocean Earthquakes
Magnitude: 8.6
Location: Indonesian City of Aceh
Largest strike slip earthquake ever recorded