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Sep 20, 1498
Enshunada Sea, Japan
An earthquake, estimated to have been at least magnitude 8.3, caused tsunami waves along the coasts of Kii, Mikawa, Surugu, Izu and Sagami. There were reports of homes flooding and being swept away throughout the region, with a total of at least 31,000 people killed. -
Ise Bay, Japan
The earthquake that caused the Ise Bay tsunami is best estimated as being of magnitude 8.2. the waves rose to 6 meters high. 8,000 people died. the town of Nagahama had a bunch of fires as the earthquake first occurred, destroying half the city. tt is reported that the nearby Lake Biwa went over the town leaving no trace except for the castle. -
Nankaido, Japan
A magnitude 8.4 earthquake caused sea waves as high as 25 meters to smash into the Pacific coasts of Kyushyu, Shikoku and Honshin. A total of nearly 30,000 buildings were damaged in the affected regions and about 30,000 people were killed. It was reported that roughly a dozen large waves were counted between 3 pm and 4 pm, some of them extending several kilometres inland at Kochi. -
Lisbon, Portugal
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake caused a series of three huge waves to strike various towns along the west coast of Portugal and southern Spain, up to 30 m high, in some places. The tsunami affected waves as far away as Carlisle Bay, Barbados, where waves were said to rise by 1.5 m. the earthquake and tsunami killed 60,000 in the Portugal, Morocco and Spain. -
Ryuku Islands, Japan
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake is believed to have caused a tsunami that damaged a large number of islands in the region, the most serious damage was restricted to Ishigaki and Miyako Islands. The waves that struck Ishigaki Island was 85.4 meters high, but it appears this is due to a confusion of the original Japanese measurements, and is more accurately estimated to have been around 11 to 15 meters high. The tsunami destroyed a total of 3,137 homes, killing nearly 12,000 people in total. -
Krakatau, Indonesia
This tsunami event is actually linked to the explosion of the Krakatau caldera volcano. Waves as high as 37 meters were propagated by the violent eruptions and destroyed the towns of Anjer and Merak. This event killed around 40,000 people in total, but as many as 2,000 deaths can be linked directly to the volcanic eruptions. -
Sanriku, Japan
This tsunami propagated after an estimated magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred off the coast of Sanriku, Japan. The tsunami was reported at Shirahama to have reached a height of 38.2 m, causing damage to more than 11,000 homes and killing some 22,000 people. -
Lituya Bay, Alaska
On July 9th 1958 there was a huge earthquake along the Fair-weather fault in the alaskan Panhandle, that loosened about 40 million cubic yards of rock high above the northeastern shore of Lituya Bay. The mass of the rocks hitting the water created a tsunami. -
Southern Peru
on june 23rd 2001, there was a magnitude 8.3 earthquake in soiuthern Peru, this earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes in 35 years. 23 people died, and 70 went missing. The runup exceeded 7 meters. -
Sumatra, Indonesia
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra was estimated to occur at a depth of 30 km. The fault zone that caused the tsunami was roughly 1300 km long, vertically displacing the sea floor by several meters along that length. the tsunami was as tall as 50 meters high, reaching 5 km inland near Meubolah, Sumatra. an estimated US $10 billion in damages is attributed to the disaster, with around 230,000 people reported dead. -
North Pacific Coast, Japan
The sunami travelling 800km per hour with 10m-high waves swept over the east coast of Japan. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake that reached depths of 24.4km- making it the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded. Approximately 452,000 people were relocated to shelters, and still remain displaced from their destroyed homes, And 18,000 died.
