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More than five years after the 1755 earthquake, on 31 March 1761, another event with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 shook the Iberian Peninsula. It generated a tsunami up to 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) at Lisbon. In Cornwall, the tsunami reached more than 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in height.
Earthquake, Tsunami March 11 2012 1,901 Typhoon Bopha: Philippines Tropical cyclone December 4 – 5 2013 6,340 Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines, Vietnam, China November 8 – 10 2014 2,700 2014 Badakhshan mudslides: Afghanistan Landslide May 2 2015 8,964 April 2015 Nepal earthquake: Nepal, India Earthquake April 25 2016 1,111 [15] 2016 Indian heat ...
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]
The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia saw an eruption on 22 December 2018 which caused a deadly tsunami, with waves surging up to five meters in height. The tsunami killed at least 437 ...
Category: Tsunamis by year. ... 2000 tsunamis (2 P) 2002 tsunamis (3 P) 2003 tsunamis ... This page was last edited on 24 April 2020, ...
The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 killed about 20,000 people and drove thousands from their homes in the prefectures of ...
Fluctuations in air pressure were recorded all over the world as the pressure wave fully circled the world several times. Two people were killed in Peru by a 2-metre tsunami wave. A British woman was found to have been killed by the tsunami in Tonga. [19] 4 Mount Semeru [20] Indonesia 2021 12 57
New Zealand is affected by at least one tsunami with the a wave height greater than one metre every ten years on average. [1] The history of tsunamis is limited by the country's written history only dating from the early to mid-1800s with Māori oral traditions and paleotsunami research prior to that time. Studies are also being carried out ...