Tsunami project

  • 1755 Lisbon, Portugal Tsunami

    1755 Lisbon, Portugal Tsunami
    The 1755 Lisbon, Portugal, earthquake produced a tsunami that, along with the earthquake and resulting fire, killed an estimated 20,000
    people. Tsunami waves that crossed the Atlantic Ocean amplified to heights of 7 m or more in the West Indies.
  • 1883 violent explosion of Krakatoa Tsunami

    1883 violent explosion of Krakatoa Tsunami
    The 1883 violent explosion of Krakatoa volcano in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra caused the top of the volcano to collapse into
    the ocean. This sudden collapse produced a giant tsunami more than 35 m high that destroyed 165 villages and killed more than 36,000
    people.
  • 1946 Aleutians earthquake turned tsunami

    1946 Aleutians earthquake turned tsunami
    1946 Aleutians earthquake produced a tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands that killed about 160 people.
  • 1960 Chile Tsunami

    1960 Chile Tsunami
    The 1960 Chile earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii after traveling for 15 hours across the Pacific Ocean.
  • 1964 Alaska's deadly tsunami

    1964 Alaska's deadly tsunami
    The 1964 Alaskan earthquake generated a deadly tsunami that killed about 130 people in Alaska and California.
  • 1993 earthquake in Sea of Japan

    1993 earthquake in Sea of Japan
    The 1993 earthquake in the Sea of Japan caused a tsunami that killed 120 people on Okushiri Island, Japan.
  • 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami

    1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami
    The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake triggered a submarine landslide that produced a tsunami that killed more than 2100 people.
  • 2004 Sumatra tsunami

    2004 Sumatra tsunami
    The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people.
  • 2009 Samoa Tsunami

    2009 Samoa Tsunami
    The 2009 Samoa earthquake generated a tsunami that killed about 200 people.
  • 2010 Chile tsunami

    2010 Chile tsunami
    The 2010 Chile earthquake generated a tsunami that killed about 700 people in coastal towns.
  • 2011 Japan, Tsunami nuclear disaster

    2011 Japan, Tsunami nuclear disaster
    The 2011 Japan earthquake generated a tsunami that killed over 20,000 people. The waves of the tsunami quickly
    reached the coastline of northern Japan where millions of people live, and several nuclear power plants were located. Within seconds of the earthquake, an automated tsunami warning system alerted the people of coastal communities to evacuate to high ground as they
    had been taught, and the nuclear power plants immediately shut down as they were designed to do.