TSUNAMIS OCCURRING BETWEEN 1891 AND 1961 --Continued 



Date 



Source 



Remarks 



18 Dec. 1920 Strait of Otranto 



11 Nov. 1922 Atacuma, Chile 



3 Feb. 1923 East Kamchatka 



13 Apr. 1923 Kamchatka 



1 Sept. 1923 Kwanto, Japan 



9 Jan. 1924 



14 Apr. 1924 South China Sea 

 16 Mar. 1926 Tonga Island 



16 Sept. 1926 

 18 Nov. 1926 



7 Mar. 1927 



26 June 1927 



11 and 12 



Sept. 1927 



4 Nov. 1927 



28 Dec. 1927 



25 Apr. 1928 



17 June 1928 



17 Jan. 1929 

 6 Mar. 1929 



26 May 1929 



18 Nov. 1929 



Solomon Islands 



Saint Pierre and 

 Miquelon 



Tango , Japan 



Black Sea 



Black Sea 



California 



Kamchatka, U.S.S.R. 



Near Piraeus, Greece 



Mexico 



Cumana, Venezuela 



Aleutian Islands 



Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, Canada 



Grand Banks 



3 Oct. 1931 Solomon Islands 

 3 June 1932 Jalisco, Mexico 

 18 June 1932 Jalisco, Mexico 



Wave height 10 feet on Albanian coast. 



Tsunami destructive in many places along the coast of 

 Chile; minor damage in Hawaii. 



Tsunami in Hawaii; maximum amplitude 15 feet at Hilo; one 

 person killed, much damage; tsunami on coast of Kamchatka. 



Tsunami observed in Hawaii. 



Tsunami hit towns on shore of Sagami Bay; maximum height 

 of 26 feet at Atami . 



Tsunami on French coast (Atlantic coast) ; possibly a 

 storm surge. 



Small tsunami at Agno, Pangasman, caused minor damage. 



Wave swept Palmerston Island, 300 miles northwest of 

 Raratonga; one person killed; all buildings swept away 

 except the church. 



Tsunami at Guadalcanal. 



Possible minor tsunami. 



Height of tsunami about 5 feet on Sea of Japan coastline. 

 Small tsunami recorded in Crimea. 

 Small tsunami recorded in Crimea. 



Six-foot wave at Surf; 0.24 inch high at LaJolla. 



Minor tsunami recorded at Hilo. 



Waves 7 feet high on north coast of Crete. 



Waterfront damaged at Puerto Angel, Mexico. 



Many boats wrecked. 



Tsunami measured in Hawaii (maximum amplitude 1 foot at 

 Hilo) . 



Four-foot wave at Queen Charlotte City. 



Tsunami hit Newfoundland; damage and loss of life on 

 Burin Peninsula. 



Eighteen native villages destroyed on San Christobal 

 Island; approximately 50 persons killed. 



Railroad track swept away between Cayutlan and 

 Manzanillo, Mexico. 



Small tsunami. 



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