Answer:
1. 1797: A
magnitude 8.4 earthquake near the central part of the
western
Sumatra
generated a tsunami that flooded Padang. More than 300
fatalities.
2. 1833: A
magnitude 8.7 earthquake near the south coast of the
western
Sumatra
triggered a huge tsunami that flooded the southern part
of western
Sumatra. Numerous victims.
3. 1843: A
tsunami that came from the southeast and flooded the
coast of the
Nias Island. Many fatalities.
4. 1861: A
magnitude 8.5 earthquake affected all the western coast
of
Sumatra. Several thousand fatalities.
5. 1881: A
magnitude 7.9 earthquake in the
Andaman
Island region generated a 1 m high tsunami on India’s
eastern coast. (http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/Oldham1881account.htm)
6. 1883:
Krakatau explosion. 36,000 fatalities, primarily on the islands of Java and
Sumatra.
7. 1941: A
magnitude ~7.7
Adaman
Islands earthquake. Anecdotal accounts exist of a
tsunami, however, no official records exist.
References:
Tsunami Laboratory, Institute of Computational
Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics
National Geophysical Data Center
K. Sieh
R. Bilham
Oritz and Billham, 2003 JGR, VOL. 108, NO. B4, pp 2215
