The largest tsunamis in history

Ocean waves of the largest earthquake recorded in history are as follows:

The oldest giant waves known to the sea by the earthquake-named 'Tsunami' by the Japanese and the 'Huangtao' by the Chinese are going in the Mediterranean Sea East on july 21, 365 AD, and killed thousands of people in the city of Alexandria, Egypt.

November 1,1771, the capital of Portugal devastating earthquake destroyed Lisbon. Atlantic Ocean waves reached a high of 6 meters to destroy the beaches in Portugal, Spain, and Marocco.

August 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia and generate tsunami waves that swept the coasts of Java and Sumatra, killing 36000 people. Volcano eruption was so powerful that many nights the sky lit by a red lava dust and the roar of the explosion was heard up to the American Continent.

June 15, 1896, 'Sanriku tsunami' hit Japan. 23-meters giant tsunami that swept the crowd of people gathered in celebration of religion and claimed as many as 26000 people lives.

December 17, 1896, tsunami damage to some of embankment of Santa Barbara in California, United States. Causing flooding streets and major highways.

January 31, 1906, earthquake in the Pasific Ocean Tomaco destroyed part of the city in Colombia, including the beach house is located between Rioverde in Ecuador and Micay in Colombia. Killing 1500 people.

April 1, 1946, tsunami that destroyed the Scotch Cap lighthouse on the Aleutian islands and five guards moved toward Hilo in Hawaii, killing 159 people.

May 22, 1960, tsunami 11 meters high has killed 1000 people in Chile and 61 people in Hawaii. Giant wave came up to the Pasific coast and shock the Philippine and Okinawa islands in Japan.


March 24, 1964, tsunami 'Good Friday' in Alaska remove three villages from the map by killing 107 local residents and 15 people died in Oregon and California.

August 16, 1976, tsunami in the Pasific killed 5000 people in the Moro Gulf, Philippine.


July 17, 1998,
ocean waves caused by the earthquake that changed in the Papua New Guinea, the northern part of the 2313 killing, destroying seven villages and caused thousands of people homeless.



December 26, 2004, an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale and giant sea waves that struck six countries in Southeast Asia killed more than 156000 people.

Natural disasters can't be prevented from using the technology or the means early countermeasures. This shows how truly helpless human beings. As quoted in the statement

Dr. Walter C. Dudley, Professor of Oceanography,

"United States and Japan have established the most advanced monitoring devices in the Pasific Ocean, but the device has an error rate of fifty percent!!"