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2009: Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Washington, United States: Landslide: A section of the shoreline about 17 acres (6.9 ha) in area adjacent to the mouth of the Spokane River collapsed into the lake on January 16, 2009, generating a tsunami which reached a maximum height of 30 feet (9 m) along the opposite shore 1,000 yards (910 m) away. [137 ...
The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami caused major destruction in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga mostly due to a 14 m (46 ft) high tsunami hitting the coasts of the three countries. At least 143 people killed, 310 others injured, five others missing, 405 homes destroyed, 161 others damaged and a total of $124 million worth of damages in Samoa ...
A 2021 map showing how a tsunami ... New technology in 2021 allowed the state’s geological survey to update its maps from 2009. A tsunami triggered by a large earthquake in Alaska would take ...
Lisbon earthquake and tsunami in November 1755. While Japan may have the longest recorded history of tsunamis, [23] [better source needed] the sheer destruction caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami event mark it as the most devastating of its kind in modern times, killing around 230,000 people. [24]
A large earthquake shook Kyushu, Japan, just after 9 p.m. local time Monday night, triggering a tsunami advisory for Japan's southeast coast. The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about ...
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday's had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
Magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami reaching 128 feet (39 meters), causing the level-7 nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Costliest natural disaster in recorded world history, estimated at up to $235 billion by the World Bank. 18,297 dead, 2,533 missing and 6,157 injured confirmed by Japanese National Police Agency on ...
“It requires an 8.7 to get a tsunami all the way to Japan,” Tobin said. The people who recorded the incident in Japan couldn’t have known that the ground had shaken an ocean away, in the ...