Take 5

CHILE

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Chile on February 27,2010,killing people and destroying infrastructure across central-southern areas of the country. The death toll from the earthquake stood at 795,according to BBC News.

SAMOA

A powerful tsunami triggered by an earthquake measuring 8.0 killed about 200 people and wiped out several villages on the Pacific islands of Samoa and American Samoa on September 29,2009. The tsunami was twice as tall as the buildings it hit,scientists say. The massive waves that struck Samoa,American Samoa and Tonga destroyed traditional wooden buildings,many of them single-storey,along the coast,according to BBC News.

INDONESIA

An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit the southwestern coast of Java,Indonesia,on July 17,2006. The earthquake caused a three-metre-high tsunami which destroyed houses on the south coast of Java,killing more than 600 people and leaving at least 65 missing. The wave was about six feet high. The epicentre was beneath the seabed of the Indian Ocean,110 miles south of Pangandaran.

SOUTH ASIA

In December 2004,a massive 9.15-magnitude quake off the coast of Indonesias Aceh province triggered an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed around 226,000 people in Indonesia,Sri Lanka,India,Thailand and nine other countries. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. The epicentre of the quake was under the Indian Ocean near the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra,according to the US Geological Survey,which monitors earthquakes worldwide.