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Earthquakes which did not affect the United States directly, but caused tsunamis which did: 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 9.5 earthquake, between 2200 and 6000 fatalities, including 61 in Hilo, HI; 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.3 earthquake, no injuries or fatalities anywhere
The tsunami is known as the Hawaii April Fools' Day Tsunami because it happened on 1 April and many people thought it was an April Fool's Day prank. The result was the creation of a tsunami warning system known as the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), established in 1949 for the countries of Oceania. 1946: Nankai, Japan: 1946 Nankai earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: $15 [1] $24.2 230,000 – 280,000 Earthquake, Tsunami 2004 Southeast Asia (, , , others) 2010 Russian heat wave: $15 [68] $21 56,000 Wildfire, Heatwave 2010 Russia: October 2017 Northern California wildfires: $15 [69] [70] [better source needed] $18.6 44 Wildfire 2017 United States 2010 Chile earthquake ...
"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue
The National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska said it issued a warning quickly because there was so little time to get people out of harm's way if a major tsunami did end up materializing.
Tsunami aftermath in Aceh, Indonesia, December 2004. Tsunamis are sometimes referred to as tidal waves. [15] This once-popular term derives from the most common appearance of a tsunami, which is that of an extraordinarily high tidal bore. Tsunamis and tides both produce waves of water that move inland, but in the case of a tsunami, the inland ...
The earthquakes in this area primarily occur on buried faults between the Amarillo Uplift and the Anadarko Basin. [3]: 24 An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5–6.0 is expected to occur every 50–100 years in the Texas Panhandle, while an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 6.0 is expected to occur every 300 years. [5]
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