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A tsunami surge of 64-centimetre (25 in) hit Norfolk Island and tsunami waves of 30-to-40-centimetre (12 to 16 in) hit New Zealand, [197] while a much larger tsunami of 2.64 m (8.7 ft) in height hit Raoul Island, closest to the epicentre of the earthquake. [198] 2021 Ambon Earthquake-triggered underwater landslide
The earthquake caused a tsunami which struck the west coast of North America and the coast of Japan. [3] Japanese tsunami records, along with reconstructions of the wave moving across the ocean, put the earthquake at about 9:00 PM Pacific Time on the evening of 26 January 1700. [4]
A volcanic tsunami, also called a volcanogenic tsunami, is a tsunami produced by volcanic phenomena. About 20–25% of all fatalities at volcanoes during the last 250 years have been caused by volcanic tsunamis. The most devastating volcanic tsunami in recorded history was that produced by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The waves reached ...
In the continental U.S., the most recent cataclysmic eruption of a volcano was Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. “Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!” radioed U.S. Geological Survey scientist ...
The people who recorded the incident in Japan couldn’t have known that the ground had shaken an ocean away, in the present-day United States. Today, the Cascadia Subduction Zone remains eerily ...
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 ...
A 2021 map showing how a tsunami could impact San Francisco was thrust back into the spotlight after a 2024 earthquake ... New technology in 2021 allowed the state’s geological survey to update ...
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu: Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054: 30,000 years ago [15]: Ofu-Olosega: 639: 2096: 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption