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Lisbon, Portugal
Exact Date of Event: 1775
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 9
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 20,000 people
• Interesting Facts - Tsunami eaves crossed with the Atlantic and amplified the height 7 m or more -
Krakatoa, Sundra strait between java and Sumatra
- Exact Date of Event: 1883 • Magnitude of the Earthquake: 8 • Death toll from the resultant tsunami: over 36,000 • Interesting Facts - Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120-foot tsunamis and killed 36,000 people
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(Alaska earthquake) , Hawaii islands
• Exact Date of Event: 1946
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 8.1
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 160
• Interesting Facts -
The wave reached Kauai, Hawaii 4.5 hours after the quake, and Hilo, Hawaii 4.9 hours later -
Chile Earthquake, Hawaii
• Exact Date of Event: 1960
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 9.5
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 61
• Interesting Facts - Both the 1960 Chile earthquake and the 1700 Cascadia earthquake were caused by sudden ruptures of long segments of subduction zones. -
Alaska Earthquake, Alaska and California
• Exact Date of Event: 1964
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 9.2
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 130
• Interesting Facts -
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in North America -
Sea of Japan, Okushiri Japan
• Exact Date of Event: 1993
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 7.8
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 120
• Interesting Facts - The seismic moment of the estimated fault model was calculated to be 9.95 × 1020 Nm -
Papua New Guinea earthquake
• Exact Date of Event: 1998
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 7.1
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 2100
• Interesting Facts - The earthquake created a landslide which turned into a tsunami -
Sumatra earthquake, Indonesia
• Exact Date of Event: 2004
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 9.1
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 230,000
• Interesting Facts - +20 to 30 minutes: Tsunami waves more than 100 feet high pound the Banda Aceh coast -
Samoa earthquake
• Exact Date of Event: 2009
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 8.1
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 200
• Interesting Facts -The submarine earthquake occurred in an extensional environment and had a moment magnitude of 8.1 -
Chile earthquake
Name and Location of the Earthquake: Chile earthquake
• Exact Date of Event: 2010
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 8.8
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 700
• Interesting Facts - Killed people in coastal towns -
Japan Tsunami
• Exact Date of Event: 2011
• Magnitude of the Earthquake: 9.2
• Death toll from the resultant tsunami: 20,000
• Interesting Facts - The most powerful earthquake recorded in Japan since 1900, when seismic recording devices were first used, and it is the fourth most powerful ever detected worldwide.
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