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April 1868, Hawaii - A 7.9-magnitude earthquake strikes the Big Island of Hawaii, leaving 77 people dead, including 46 from a tsunami.
August 26-27, 1883, Krakatoa, Indonesia - Following the eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa, tsunamis reaching heights of 40 metres submerge islands, destroy hundreds of villages and kill more than 36,000 people.
June 15, 1896, Sanriku on the Japanese island of Honshu - An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale unleashed a tsunami causing a death toll of more than 27,000.
April 1946, Alaska/Hawaii - An earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.1 near Unimak Islands, Alaska, triggers a tsunami, killing 165 people, mostly in Hawaii.
March 1964, Alaska - A 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska, kills 131 people, including 119 from a tsunami.
August 16, 1976, Mindanao, Philippines - A tremor caused a tsunami which left 5,000 dead on the Filipino island of Mindanao in the Moro Gulf region.
December 12, 1992, Flores, Indonesia - A tremor touched off several tsunamis, swamping the island of Flores with 2,000 deaths.
July 17, 1998, Papua New Guinea - Following a magnitude 7 earthquake off the country's east coast, villages on the north coast of Papua New Guinea were hit by 11 metre tidal waves that killed 2,500 people.
December 26, 2004, Boxing Day tsunami - More than 200,000 people are killed across Asia, as a tsunami hit Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, following a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
July 17, 2006, Java, Indonesia - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off southern Java kills more than 500 people and displaces about 74,000.
April 2, 2007, Solomon Islands - At least 28 people in the Solomon Islands die in a tsunami and earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.1.
September 29, 2009, Samoa - About 40 people and possibly many more are dead after an earthquake with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3 off the island of Samoa triggers tsunamis on the islands of Samoa and American Samoa.
