BUENOS AIRES (Urgente24). In May 1960 saw the largest earthquake in history, with its epicenter off southern Chile and over 9 Richter, generated waves of up to 25 meters that swept parts of the Chilean coast, coming to Hawaii, where it caused 61 deaths. The death toll from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami is estimated at between 490 and 2290.
In 1964 an earthquake of about 9 º earthquake struck Alaska, British Columbia and the northwest coast of California, causing 121 deaths.
The resultant tsunami waves six meters killed 11 people in Crescent City (California) 16 August 1976 an earthquake measuring 7.9 Richter struck first in the island of Mindanao (Philippines) devastated more than 700 kilometers of coastline and causing A total of 8,000 dead.
In December 1979 an earthquake measuring 7.9 Richter first arrived on the Pacific coast, off Colombia and Ecuador. The resulting tsunami destroyed at least six fishing villages, killing at least 360 killed in the Colombian province of Nariño and the city of Tumaco, and others.
Until May 1986 there was another earthquake, then 104 people died in the west coast of Japan after the tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the area. In July 1993, at least 202 people died on the island of Japan Okhushiri because the tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido (Japan).
Five years later, about 2,200 killed by a tsunami in Papua New Guinea, caused by an earthquake of 7.1 º Richter, who destroyed the villages of Arop and Warapu. The largest tsunami in history was that the December 26, 2004. After an earthquake of 8.9 Richter ° from the epicenter off Indonesia's Sumatra island, the impact killed 226,408 people in 12 Indian Ocean countries.
The most affected countries were Indonesia (126,915 dead and 37,063 missing), Sri Lanka (more than 31,000 people), India (over 11,000), Thailand: 5,395 dead (2,248 of them foreigners from 37 countries, including two Spanish) and 2,940 missing. In Somalia there were 300 dead and at least 80 in the Maldives.
Subsequently, in March 2006 a tsunami killed three people and destroyed a small village on the Indonesian island of Buru. July 17, 2006, another tsunami struck the southwest of the Indonesian island of Java killed at least 596 dead, 70 missing and 110,000 displaced.
The giant wave caused by an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 degrees, which was centered about 200 miles off the coast of Java and 48.6 kilometers deep and was followed by several aftershocks.
In April 2007, 52 people were killed by a tsunami in the Solomon Islands, caused by two earthquakes, one of 8.11 followed by a 7.61 Richter. In the Western and Choiseul provinces had more than 5,409 displaced and 916 buildings destroyed.
29/09/2009 In a tsunami caused dozens of deaths in Samoa after an earthquake measuring 7.9 Richter in the Pacific archipelago º.
11/03/2011 On Friday, a devastating earthquake of 8.9 magnitude on the Richter scale, the largest magnitude lived in Japan since records have shaken the country, causing hundreds of deaths and disappearances.
The Japanese government has warned of a series of "very high level of casualties", which could exceed one, but for now the latest figures provided by police death toll at 184. The official figure of 530 is also missing and police also said that at least 722 people were injured.
However, it is feared that the death toll could reach thousands of meeting is dawning, told Kyodo news agency quoted Japan's Defense Ministry, the large number of people still missing.
The earthquake has left without electricity to millions of people around the country, which has declared a state of emergency nuclear energy, due to problems in a plant. Both the U.S. and EU countries have offered to Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, support for the rescue and reconstruction.
The disaster is due in large part to the strong earthquake, whose epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles offshore, has unleashed a tsunami with waves up to 10 meters have penetrated 5 km inland, destroyed what they have found its way into the northeastern provinces. According to the Ministry of Defense, only in Fukushima prefecture is about 1,800 houses destroyed.
And in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest hit areas, police have assured that there are between 200 and 300 bodies on a beach in the city of Sendai (such as the balance of the police to the victims would be further from the truth .)
The waves have washed inland vessels and fears of trains on the coast, four of whom nothing is known to have been swallowed by the sea.
At least one passenger was a convoy carrying an undetermined number of people when it lost its track. Transport have been affected across the country, leaving many people without the possibility of returning to their homes, and flights at the airport in Narita, the chief of Tokyo, have been disrupted for hours.
In the early hours of the day in the country, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, has already left on a helicopter to fly over the affected areas from the air and control of the situation in which the country finds itself.
Japan faces on Saturday 14/03 to the devastation caused in its northeast coast, with the fire and partly flooded cities increased after the great earthquake on Friday, sparking a massive tsunami might have caused at least 1,000 dead.
Television footage showed an impressive huge wall of water up to 10 feet high, carrying vehicles, boats and buildings, even at high speed crashed in farmland near the coastal city of Sendai, home to one million people and is about 300 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.
"This could be a humanitarian aid operation of epic proportions," said Shela Smith experts in Japan, the U.S. Council of Foreign Affairs.
In one of the worst affected areas, you can hear people buried under the debris calling for "help" and "when will we be rescued," according to Kyodo news agency.
In Kesennuma, with a population of 74,000 people, had many fires and about a third of the city was submerged, according to the Jiji news agency, adding that the Sendai Airport, home to one million people, is on fire.
Politicians called for an emergency budget to help with rescue efforts after Kan to ask them to "save the country" according to Kyodo news agency. Japan's economic power and most heavily indebted countries, which means that any additional financing will be closely watched by the markets. Source: Urgente24.com
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