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Originally Posted by loreen
Beautiful city but watch out for earthquakes. Few but BIG.
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Last big one was in 1755 with a magnitude of 9.0(some scientists say 9.5). There was a tsunami with waves of 6 meters tall, in Algarve it was also felt and the waves were 15 meters tall.
About 40,000 people were killed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake
The next not so big one was in 1969 with a magnitude approaching 6.0, 13 were killed
And finally the last one was in 2007 with a magnitude of 5.8 without any known damage.