TSUNAMIS OCCURRING BETWEEN 1891 AND 1961--Continued 



Date 



Source 



Remarks 



30 Mar. 1956 



9 July 1956 



2 Nov. 1956 



9 Mar. 1957 



28 July 1957 



19 Jan. 1958 



Near Kamchatka 

 Greek Archipelago 



Volos, Greece 

 Aleutian Islands 

 Mexico 

 Ecuador 



9 July 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska 



6 Nov. 1958 



Iturup Earthquake, 

 Pacific coast, 

 U.S.S.R. 



22 Jan. 



1959 



East coast of Honshu 



7 Feb. 



1959 



Northern Peru 



4 May 



1959 



Near Kamchatka 



18 Aug. 



1959 



Hebgen Lake, Montana 



13 Jan. 



1960 



Southern Peru 



29 Feb. 



1960 



Morocco 



20 Mar. 



1960 



Coast of Japan 



22 May 



1960 



Chile 



20 Nov. 



1960 



Coast of Peru 



16 Jan. 



1961 



Ibaraki-Oki 

 Earthquake 



27 Feb. 



1961 



Hiuga-Nada, Japan 



Wave believed to be caused by submarine 

 landslides; wave 100 feet high near source. 



Four-foot wave . 



Tsunami waves in Hawaii; heavy damage. 



Tsunami recorded at Acapulco and Salina Cruz. 



Tsunami damaged Esmeraldas and Quayaquil; some 

 deaths. 



Giant wave from rockfall; wave runup estimated 

 at 1,740 feet at one point. 



Waves 3 to 5 meters high in South Kurile Islands 

 (referred to as Etorofu-Oki Earthquake by 

 Japanese) . 



Very faint tsunami at Miyako. 



Tsunami recorded at Talara. 



Slight tsunami in Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands. 



Waves in lake from earthquake. 



Small tsunami struck Ancon. 



Tsunami at Agadir, Morocco. 



Five-foot wave locally. 



Ofunato, Shizukawa, and Kiritappu heavily damaged 

 in Japan; damage at Hilo, Hawaii. 



Damage and deaths along Peruvian coast. 



Small tsunami. 



Tsunami on coast of Miyazaki prefecture occurred 

 at low tide; height small. 



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