Labels:text | screenshot | font | number | black and white | white OCR: 373 BC Helice, Greece Mentioned in Strabo's Geography AD 365 Eastern Mediterranean Tsunami after quake leveled the Pharos of Alexandria 476 Rome Destroyed city of Rome 526 Antioch ( now Turkey) 250,000 deaths; Antioch destroyed Jan. 24, 1556 Northern China Worst death toll in history: 830,000 June 7, 1692 Jamaica Destroyed city of Port Royal Oct. 28, 1703 Tokyo, Japan 200,000 killed Nov. 1, 1755 Lisbon, Portugal 60,000 killed on All Saint's Day; greatly influence 18th- century European thought Feb. 5, 1783 Calabria, Italy 181 villages leveled; 30,000 killed Dec. 16, 1811 New Madrid, Missouri Unusually large intraplate earthquake Mar. 26, 1812 Venezuela Destroyed city of Caracas Aug. 23, 1868 Peru Tsunami reached points 4.5 km ( 3 mi) inland June 15, 1896 Honshu, Sanriku Coast, 27,000 killed by submarine Japan tsunami whose epicenter 150 km (93 mi) off coast
