The 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra was estimated to occur at a depth of 30 km. An estimated US$10b of damages is attributed to the disaster, with around 230,000 people reported dead.
A powerful tsunami travelling 800km per hour with 10m-high waves swept over the east coast of Japan, killing more than 18,000 people.
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake caused a series of three huge waves to strike various towns and killed 60,000 in Portugal, Morocco, and Spain.
This tsunami event is linked to the explosion of the Krakatau caldera volcano which killed around 40,000 people in total, however, as many as 2,000 deaths can be attributed directly to the volcanic eruptions, rather than the ensuing tsunami.
This tsunami propagated after an estimated magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred off the coast of Sanriku, Japan and causing damage to more than 11,000 homes and killing some 22,000 people.
This tsunami event was caused by a series of two significant earthquakes, estimated at a magnitude of 8.5, a total of 25,000 deaths, and an estimated US$300 million in damages caused by the tsunami and earthquakes combined along the Peru-Chile coast.