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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (moment magnitude 9.1–9.3) [44] triggered a series of tsunamis on 26 December 2004 that devastated coastlines surrounding the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people (167,540 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami and one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
The tsunami magnitude (M t ) of 7.6 derived from tsunami observations in Hawaii was deemed an overvalue. [2] The fault responsible for the earthquake was a north-northwest trending structure located 40 km (25 mi) offshore west of Point Conception. The earthquake's focal mechanism indicated an exclusively reverse-faulting mechanism.
The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...
California officials also have records of tsunamis hitting Northern California in 1960 and 1946, which each left at least one person dead. The 1946 tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 8.6 earthquake ...
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 slammed California’s shore since 1800. The 2011 tsunami that hit Japan also caused $100m in damage to the state’s ports and harbors.
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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.