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The tsunami is known as the Hawaii April Fools' Day Tsunami because it happened on 1 April and many people thought it was an April Fool's Day prank. The result was the creation of a tsunami warning system known as the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), established in 1949 for the countries of Oceania. 1946: Nankai, Japan: 1946 Nankai earthquake
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Moderate tsunami observed in Cornwall and Barbados. 18 September 1763 Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom: Unknown Unknown [5] 2 April 1808 Coast, Italy: Unknown Earthquake An earthquake in Italy caused a possible tsunami that was observed in Marseille, France. [4] [12] 23 August 1817 Gulf of Corinth, Greece: Unknown Earthquake [2] 29 December 1820
"World Bank's Hazard Risk Management". World Bank. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09 "Disaster News Network". Archived from the original on 2006-11-05 US news site focused on disaster-related news. "EM-DAT International Disaster Database". Archived from the original on 2008-08-11
According to the database, Japan has had the most tsunamis since 1900, followed by Russia and Indonesia. A magnitude 9.2 temblor, the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded globally, caused widespread damage in the Anchorage area in 1964 and killed 131 people, including some in Oregon and California by the ensuing tsunami.
A tsunamis recorded along the eastern coast of North America in 1755 may have been linked to the massive earthquake struck the Portuguese capital city. That quake likely registered between a ...
This category has the following 35 subcategories, out of 35 total. A. Tsunamis in Algeria (5 P) ... Tsunamis in the Dominican Republic (1 P) E. Tsunamis in Ecuador (7 P)
"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue