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551 Beirut
destroyed by earthquake
and tsunami.
1607 Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. (Possibly tsunami)
1700 The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California
, creating a tsunami logged in Japan
and oral traditions of the American First Nations.
1755 1755 Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal
, Lisbon
is destroyed by a massive earthquake
and tsunami, killing 60,000 - 90,000 people.
1792 Old lava dome collapses in Kyushu
, Japan
when Mount Unzen volcano
erupts - resulting avalanche
and tsunami kills about 14300
1906 Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong
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1929 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland
in the Atlantic Ocean
, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake
centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28. As of 1997, it is Canada
's most lethal earthquake.
1946 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo, Hawaii - 173 dead, thousands injured.
1960 May 22 — Great Chilean Earthquake: Chile
's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Península de Taitao, loosing a tsunami and one of the greatest earthquake
s on record.
1971 A tsunami 85 m high rises over the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton block of coral 2.5 km inland.
1971 A cyclone
and tsunami in the Bay of Bengal, in Orissa State in India
, kills 10,000.
1979 A tsunami in Nice
, France
kills 23 people.
1993 A magnitude 7.8 earthquake
off Hokkaido, Japan
launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
1998 A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake
destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea
, killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
2004 One of the worst natural disaster
s in recorded history hits southeastern Asia
when the strongest earthquake in 40 years
hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake
, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian
island of Sumatra
, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand
, India
, Sri Lanka
, the Maldives
, Malaysia
, Myanmar
, Bangladesh
, Burma
and Indonesia
. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.
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