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The tsunami caused great destruction in the city of Tumaco, as well as in the towns of El Charco, San Juan, Mosquera, and Salahonda on the Pacific coast of Colombia. Casualties included 259 dead, 798 injured and 95 missing or presumed dead. 1980: Spirit Lake, Washington, U.S. Spirit Lake (Washington), 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Mount St ...
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California-Oregon 7.3 M L 0 1873 Oregon-California earthquake [2] October 26, 1880: Alaska 7.0 M s 0 [1] August 10, 1884: New York: 4.9–5.5 M fa 2: August 31, 1886: South Carolina: 6.9–7.3 M w 60: 1886 Charleston earthquake: April 19, 1892: California 6.4 M L 1 1892 Vacaville–Winters earthquakes [2] April 21, 1892: California 6.4 M L 0
In 1964, a massive 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Alaska resulted in a tsunami in Crescent City, California five hours later. The quake's epicenter was 1,600 miles from the town.
A 2021 map showing how a tsunami could impact San Francisco was thrust back into the spotlight after a 2024 earthquake ... The most destructive tsunami to hit California occurred on March, 28 ...
Little-known quake, tsunami hazards lurk offshore of Southern California – American Geophysical Union; California’s other drought: A major earthquake is overdue – The Conversation; New California bill aims to create a public inventory of collapse-risk buildings – Temblor, Incorporated
Of particular concern are signals of massive earthquakes in the region’s geologic history. Many researchers have chased clues of the last “big one”: an 8.7-magnitude earthquake in 1700.
Prior to the 1980s, scientists thought that the subduction zone did not generate earthquakes like other subduction zones around the world, but research by Brian Atwater and Kenji Satake tied together evidence of a large tsunami on the Washington coast with documentation of an orphan tsunami in Japan (a tsunami without an associated earthquake ...