1,190865438+On February 28th, a tsunami with a magnitude of 7.5 was triggered in Messina, Italy. This is a huge tsunami, and the waves are as high as 12 meters offshore. The earthquake occurred at 5: 00 am that day, and 82,000 people were killed in the tsunami, which was the catastrophic earthquake with the largest number of deaths in Europe, and it was also 20.
2.1On March 2, 933, the Niru offshore earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami of magnitude 8.9, which was the strongest earthquake in history. The tsunami wave was 29 meters high and 3,000 people died.
3.1959101On October 30th, the tsunami in Mexico triggered a landslide, killing 5,000 people.
4, 65438+May 265438+ 1960 From 0 to 27, the largest earthquake swarm occurred in the coastal areas of Chile in the 20th century, with the largest magnitude of 8.4 and the largest wave height caused by the tsunami of 25m. The tsunami razed half the buildings in a city in Chile, washed away more than 100 breakwaters along the coast and destroyed more than 2,000 ships. 000 people were killed. In addition, the waves swept across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of 600-700 kilometers per hour, washed away more than 1 000 houses along the Japanese coast, flooded more than 20,000 mu of fertile land, and made 1.5 million people homeless.
5.1August, 976 16, the tsunami in Moro Bay, Philippines, killed 8,000 people.
On June+1July 17, 1998, a 49-meter wave and tsunami caused by the submarine earthquake in Papua New Guinea, Africa, killed 2,200 people and left thousands homeless.
7. On February 26th, 2004, 65438, the earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia triggered a large-scale tsunami. Statistics as of the 29th show that the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami have killed 68,000 people, which may be the worst tsunami disaster in the world in the past 200 years. Put it away.