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A series of landslides at Reed Terrace between April and August 1953 generated tsunamis at least 11 times. The largest of them reached a maximum height of 65 feet (20 m) along the opposite shore of the lake and was observed as far as 6 miles (9.7 km) away. One of the waves reached a speed of 45 miles per hour (72 km/h). [134] 1956: Amorgos, Greece
Texas: 6.5 August 16, 1931 1931 Valentine earthquake Utah: 7.0 November 13, 1901 1901 Richfield earthquake U.S. Virgin Islands: 7.5 November 18, 1867 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami Vermont: 4.0 March 31, 1953 [56] Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Washington (state) 8.7–9.2 January 26, 1700 1700 Cascadia ...
[108] [109] [110] A tsunami event is also possible, with the tsunami potentially reaching up to about 1 kilometre (3,300 ft) in height [111] According to the documentary National Geographic's Ultimate Disaster: Tsunami, if a big landslide occurred at Mauna Loa or the Hilina Slump, a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami would take only thirty minutes to ...
Large tsunamis have occurred in the US and will again. A magnitude 9.2 earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska caused damage and loss of life along the West Coast in 1964. More than 150 tsunamis have ...
When no damaging tsunami threat became evident, the NTWC canceled the Tsunami Warning at 11:54 a.m. Pedestrians on Ocean Beach after a tsunami warning in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday ...
A tsunami warning affecting more than 5 million people has been lifted after a major earthquake rocked Northern California. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the tremor, with a magnitude of 7.0 ...
Among these areas, West Texas experiences the strongest and most frequent earthquakes, with El Paso featuring the greatest risk from earthquakes among sizable urban areas in Texas. [ 3 ] : 18–19 There are several geologic features in West Texas of interest to seismology, including the Central Basin Platform , the Hueco Bolson , and the ...
A 2021 map showing how a tsunami could impact San Francisco was thrust back ... move inland or to a higher elevation as soon as possible,” Rick Wilson, head of the CGS Ts unami Program, said in ...