List of historic tsunamis

This list of tsunamis lists events which were subsequently confirmed by contemporary reports and geological surveys tsunamis as a result of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and submarine landslides. Tsunamis have also been observed in lakes.

List

Shipwrecks caused by the earthquake and tsunami, Chile 1960

Great Tsunami of 2004 when it strikes the Maldivian Coast

Into the sea -flushed residence off the Japanese coast, March 2011

Prehistoric Era

In prehistoric times, huge tsunamis occurred with heights of 300 to 400 m. They were formed by massive landslides or collapses of entire mountains that broke due to volcanic activities in the sea, for example, on the islands of Hawaii 110,000 years ago, or by underwater avalanches, as 8000 years ago off the Norwegian coast. Such tsunamis can be reconstructed by deposits of so-called Tsunamiten and rock samples.

Antiquity

9th century

17th Century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st Century

Tsunami deposit Storegga Slide Minoan eruption Herodotus Poseidon Helike Classical antiquity Atlantis 365 Crete earthquake Alexandria Sendai Lucerne 1700 Cascadia earthquake Sea of Japan Callao Lesser Antilles Ritter Island 1896 Sanriku earthquake Ecuador 1908 Messina earthquake 1929 Grand Banks earthquake Lituya Bay Moro Gulf 1992 Nicaragua earthquake Nicaragua 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake Papua New Guinea 2003 Boumerdès earthquake Ibiza 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami July 2006 Java earthquake 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake Solomon Islands Gizo, Solomon Islands 2009 Samoa earthquake October 2010 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami Envisat Lists of disasters National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Digital Object Identifier
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