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Tsunami Event

Date Tsunami Cause Tsunami Source Location Tsunami Parameters
Val Code Earth-
quake Mag		 Max
Water
Height		 Num. of
Runups		 Magnitude Tsu
Int		 Warn Status
Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Sec Country Name Latitude Longitude Abe Iida
2006 11 15 11 14 13.5 4 1 8.3 RUSSIA S. KURIL ISLANDS 46.592 153.266 .88 139 1
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Tsunami Effects Total Effects (Tsunami and Source) Photos
Deaths Injuries Damage Houses Destroyed Houses Damaged Deaths Injuries Damage Houses Destroyed Houses Damaged
Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De
1 1 1 1 1 1
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A great earthquake that occurred 495 km (305 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia and 1665 km (1030 miles) NE of Tokyo, Japan, generated a tsunami that was observed throughout the Pacific Basin. (reference #1053)

In Hawaii, the tsunami caused one injury at Waikiki, Honolulu, and five-foot waves were observed at Kahului. No damage was reported, but beaches on the Big Island were closed and the city shut down Hanauma Bay because of strong surges.

Six-foot surges observed at Crescent City, California, destroying two docks, causing significant damage to a third and minor damage to the remaining docks in the small boat basin.

One parking lot was flooded at Nawiliwili, Hawaii by a tsunami with a recorded wave height of 88 cm. (reference #1053)

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References for a Tsunami event ID

References for the Tsunami Event

ID Author Year Citation
2585 Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology 2006-2007 Sea level data for tsunami events. Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved November 20, 2006 from ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/ntc/paul/tsunami/reports.html
5223 Fujii, Yushiro; Satake, Kenji 2008 Tsunami sources of the November 2006 and January 2007 great Kuril earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 98, no. 3, p. 1559-1571.
2582 NOAA West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center 2006 NOAA West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (NATWC) Website http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
1053 National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) 1971 to present Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to present.
2586 National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research 2006 Kuril Islands Tsunami Mw 8.3 1114 UTC 15-Nov 2006. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand.
2583 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center 2006 NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) website http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/
2587 newspaper 2006 "Tsunami Swamps Crescent City's Port." Times-Standard Online retrieved November 20,2006 from http://www.times-standard.com/local/ci_4669521 [no longer online]
2588 newspaper 2006 "Tsunami alert passes after quake near Japan", Star Bulletin, Vol. 11, Issue 320, Thursday, November 16, 2006, retrieved November 220, 2006 from http://starbulletin.com/2006/11/16/news/story01.html