Producer: Mehak Pal Editor: Aparna Singh
It was a 9.1 magnitude earthquake that hit the coast of Sumatra and occurred at a depth of 30 km. The tsunami was almost 50 metres and reached 5 km inland near Meubolah, Sumatra.
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake caused a series of three huge waves that hit the towns of the west coast of Portugal and south of Spain.
It was the strongest earthquake that had ever been recorded in North America. It struck Alaska's Prince William Sound almost 74 miles southeast of Anchorage.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake resulted in a tsunami travelling 800 km per hour with 10 m high waves that swept its east coast.
This tsunami was due to the explosion of the Krakatau caldera volcano.
This tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami, hit the Indian Ocean. It occured when an earthquake of 9.1-9.3 magnitude hit Sumatra, Indonesia.
A landslide caused 50 million cubic metres of water to overtop a dam in a wave as high as 250 metres. It caused massive flooding and destruction to Piave Valley.
The earthquake of magnitude 8.4 caused sea waves as high as 25 metres in the Pacific hammering into Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu.
It happened after an estimated magnitude of 7.6 earthquake hit the coast of Sanriku, Japan