Famus Tsunamis
One of the biggest tsunamis on record is the 9.5 magnitude which is very large. This happened on May the 22nd,1960. This is the strongest earthquake on record. This created the most destructive tsunami of the 20th century. This also caused a volcanic eruption. It was like dominos. The tsunami spread across the paso fix ocean, the waves measured up to 25 meters high in places. Another powerful tsunami struck Japan on the 11th of March,2011. Unfortunately the tsunami killed about 18,000 people. The tsunami was caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that reached the depths of 24.4km. This made it the forth largest earthquake in the whole world. The violent shaking caused a nuclear power plant to leak. It leaked in a stream which made it very hard and expensive to deal with. The world bank estimates it took about five years to clean up and was about 225 billion dollar to fix it.