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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
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2023 tsunamis (1 P) 2024 tsunamis (3 P) This page was last edited on 24 April 2020, at 16:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami; 1871 Lānaʻi earthquake; 1927 Lompoc earthquake; 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake; 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake; 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami; 1960 Valdivia earthquake; 1964 Alaska earthquake; 1979 Saint Elias earthquake; 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquakes; 2009 Samoa earthquake and ...
More than 150 tsunamis have hit California’s shore since 1800. Most were barely noticeable, but a few have caused fatalities or significant damage. The most destructive tsunami to hit California ...
2006 Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.3 earthquake, no injuries or fatalities anywhere; 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.0 earthquake with an epicenter 120 miles (190 km) southwest of American Samoa generated tsunami waves up to 16 feet (5 m), killing 34 people in American Samoa and causing extensive damage [39]
A Whatcom County resident survived the deadliest tsunami in recorded history when she was just 13 years old. Now, 19 years after the disaster, she’s telling her story. Monica Connelly was ...
Tsunami swept the coastal areas of the Mentawai Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami: 28 September 2018: Palu Large earthquake near Donggala caused a tsunami that funneled into a bay rising high at Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami: 22 December 2018: Banten – Lampung