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The wave came out of the lower part, and looked like the smallest part of the whole thing. The wave did not go up 1,800 feet, the water splashed there. [11] The wave made its way to his boat 2–3 minutes after he saw it and carried the Edrie down to the southern shore and then back near the center of the bay. Ulrich was able to control the ...
A numerical simulation of the tsunami suggested that the first wave was caused by a significant subsidence north of the Kuril Islands due to the earthquake. [11] A peak-to-trough tsunami wave height of 3.46 m (11.4 ft) was recorded in Hanasaki, Japan. [10] This earthquake triggered a tsunami in southern Kuril Islands and Hokkaido. [12]
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The agency said tsunami waves of up to 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) were detected along parts of Kyushu's southern coast and the nearby island of Shikoku about a half hour after the quake struck.
Waves with a height of more than 5 metres “may have reached” Noto in Ishikawa prefecture already, while waves of at least 1 metre have already hit the coast of Wajima city in Ishikawa, the ...
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering a tsunami alert and prompting an official warning to residents to evacuate affected coastal areas as soon as possible.
An example of this was the July 17, 1998, Papua New Guinean landslide tsunami where waves up to 15 m high impacted a 20 km section of the coast killing 2,200 people, yet at greater distances the tsunami was not a major hazard. This is due to the comparatively small source area of most landslide tsunami (relative to the area affected by large ...
It resulted in two tsunami waves which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. [4] The waves reached a then-record height of 38.2 metres (125 ft); this would remain the highest on record until waves from the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake exceeded that height by more than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in).