![]() This inland earthquake caused widespread damages to buildings as well as large landslides. Assam - Tibet 15 August 1950 (magnitude 8.6) This region, also the site of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, is particularly geologically active, with three of the 15 biggest known earthquakes having happened here. The epicentre was 205 km north-west of Sibolga, Sumatra, at a depth of 30 km. This earthquake killed 1313, with over 400 people injured by the tsunami as far away as Sri Lanka. Sumatra, Indonesia 28 March 2005 (magnitude 8.6) The wave caused flooding on Amchitka Island, causing US$10,000 in property damage. The worst of the damage attributed to this earthquake was caused by a tsunami, reported to be about 10 m high on Shemya Island. Rat Islands, Alaska 2 April 1965 (magnitude 8.7) The tsunami took roughly 12 hours to cross the Pacific to Hilo, Hawaii. The tsunami travelled as far north as San Francisco, on the west coast of the US, and west to Hawaii and Japan. This earthquake caused a tsunami that is reported to have killed between 500 and 1,500 in Ecuador and Colombia. Off the coast of Ecuador 31 January 1906 (magnitude 8.8) A minor tsunami travelled across the Pacific causing damage to boats as far away as San Diego, California. The epicentre was 335 km south-west of Santiago, at a depth of 35 km. More than 800,000 people were displaced with a total of 1.8m people affected across Chile, where damage was estimated at US$30 billion. ![]() This earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed at least 521 people, with 56 missing and 12,000 injured. Bio-bio, Chile 27 February 2010 (magnitude 8.8) A farmer on Oahu reported the loss of six cows to the tsunami, but no people were reported killed. ![]() Some reports describe waves of over 9 m high at Kaena Point, Oahu. Property damage was estimated at around US$1,000,000. This earthquake generated a tsunami that caused widespread damage in the Hawaiian Islands. Kamchatka, Russia 4 November 1952 (magnitude 9.0) Economic impacts are expected to be huge, with the shutting down of nuclear reactors which many industries rely on for power. However, the total is expected to rise, with some estimates of a final toll of over 10,000. So far the official death toll stands at several thousand from the combined effect of the powerful earthquake, aftershocks and the tsunami. Sendai, Japan 11 March 2011 (magnitude 9.0) Several days later on 28 December, a mud volcano began erupting near Baratang, Andamar Islands, which is thought to have been associated with the earthquake. The epicentre was 250 km south-east of Band Aceh, Indonesia, at a depth of 30 km. In total, 227,900 people were killed or presumed dead, with around 1.7 million displaced over 14 countries in South Asia and East Africa. In terms of damage and loss of life, the scale of the disaster caused by the resulting Boxing Day Tsunami was enormous. Sumatra, Indonesia 26 December 2004 (magnitude 9.1) Shaking from the quake itself is reported to have lasted for three minutes. The most damage was sustained by the city of Anchorage, 120 km north-west of the epicentre. The earthquake was felt mainly over Alaska, as well as some places in Canada, while the tsunami created by it caused damage as far away as Hawaii. Prince William Sound, Alaska 28 March 1964 (magnitude 9.2)Ĭompared to the Chilean earthquake, this earthquake was less damaging: the resulting tsunami took 128 lives and caused overall US$311 million in damage. Two days after the initial quake, the nearby volcano Puyehue erupted, sending ash and steam up to 6 km into the atmosphere over a period of several weeks. The 'rupture zone' of the quake was more than 1000 km long. It caused US$550 million damage in Chile, while the tsunami that it spawned caused deaths and damage as far away as Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines. This earthquake killed 1655 people, injured 3000 and displaced two million. The 10 largest magnitudes in recorded history 1.
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