TSUNAMIS OCCURRING BETWEEN 1819 AND 1961 --Continued 



Date 



Source 



Remarks 



22 June 1932 



26 Sept. 1932 

 3 War. 1933 



14 Feb. 1934 



27 Oct. 1936 

 3 Nov. 1936 



28 and 29 

 May 1937 



6 Mar. 1938 



22 Mar. 1938 



19 May 1938 



23 May 1938 

 5 Nov. 1938 



10 Nov. 1938 



1 May 1939 



2 Aug. 1940 



Jalisco, Mexico 

 Hierissos, Greece 

 Sanriku coast, Japan 



China Sea 



Lituya Bay, Alaska 



Off Kinkazan, Japan 



Blanche Bay, 

 New Britain 



Solomon Islands 



Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, Canada 



Macassar Strait 



Ibaraki, Japan 



Off Iwaki, Japan 



Off south coast of 

 Alaska 



Near Ogasima, Japan 



Northern part of 

 Sea of Japan 



5 Dec. 1941 Panama - Costa Rica 



24 Aug. 1942 Near Lima, Peru 



6 Apr. 1943 Chile 



7 Dec. 1944 Japan (Kumanonoda) 



27 Nov. 1945 Arabian Sea 



1 Apr. 1946 Aleutian Islands, 

 Alaska . 



23 June 1946 British Columbia, 

 Canada 



Aug. 1946 Dominican Republic 



12 and 13 Matua Island, 

 Nov. 1946 Kurile Islands 



Small tsunami, some damage. 



Small tsunami noted in Gulf of Orphano. 



Immense damage; 3,022 people killed; 8,831 houses 

 destroyed; 8,180 vessels wrecked. 



Tsunami at San Estehan, Philippine Islands. 



Maximum runup of 400 feet. 



Minor tsunami on Japan coast. 



Volcanic eruption. Highest waves 14 to 16 feet from 

 crest to trough. 



Minor tsunami. 



Minor tsunami. 



Minor tsunami . 



Small tsunami. 



Tsunami observed in northern Japan. 



Minor tsunami. 



Tsunami observed along coast of Sea of Japan; some damage. 

 Tsunami on coast of Hokkaido. 



Slight tsunami at Punta Arenas, Costa Rica; height of 

 0.75 foot. 



Slight tsunami recorded in Peru. 



Small tsunami at Valparaiso; amplitudes more than 3 feet. 



Amplitude less than 2 feet in Aleutians; waves along 

 Pacific coast of Japan 2.5 to 5 meters high near the 

 Kii Peninsula. 



Heavy damage on coast of Pakistan and India; tsunami at 

 Karachi and Bombay where there was damage and loss of life; 

 two new islands appeared in the Arabian Sea. 



Damage and loss of life in Alaska; heavy damage and many 

 lives lost in Hawaii. 



Bottom of Deep Bay sank from 9 to 84 feet; waves 

 generated in Georgia Strait flooded fields and highways. 



Town of Matanzas badly damaged and abandoned; more than 

 100 persons killed; minor damage on coast of Haiti. 



Volcanic explosion. Tsunami generated. 



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