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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
2007 8 15 23 40 57.8 4 1 8.0 PERU S. PERU -13.386 -76.603 1.00 56 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
514 3 1090 4 4 39700 4
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On August 15, 2007 at 23:40:58 UTC a magnitude 8.0 MW earthquake occurred 150 km SSE of Lima, Peru. The earthquake generated a tsunami that was observed by tide gauges in Peru, Chile, French Polynesia, Mexico, Hawaii, and California. The DART 32401 (off the coast of Chile) observed the tsunami, but DARTs 43412 and 43413 (off the coast of Mexico) and 51406 (southeast of Hawaii) did not.

News reports stated that in La Punta and Callao, Peru, when the earthquake began, sea levels rose by one meter and as movement continued sea levels rose another half of a meter (reference #3100).

Link to NGDC Earthquake Information for situation reports and tectonic summary.

Interactive Map displays significant tsunami events and related hazard layers.

Calculated Tsunami Travel Time Map displays first-arrival travel times in 1 hour time intervals.

Link to NOAA Center for Tsunami Research for Animations showing experimental model forecast analysis of the Peru tsunami.

Link to International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) for compilations of related Tsunami Warning Center Messages.

References for a Tsunami event ID

References for the Tsunami Event

ID Author Year Citation
3099 Bell, Rob 2007 Peru Tsunami 16-Aug 2007, NIWA, Hamilton, New Zealand, NZ gauges_Peru_tsunami_NIWA.pdf file.
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.
2583 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center 2006 NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) website http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/
3970 Wei, Yong Wei, Eddie N. Bernard, Liujuan Tang, Robert Weiss, Vasily V. Titov 2008 Real-time experimental forecast of the Peruvian tsunami of August 2007 for U.S. coastlines, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 35,L04609, doi:10.1029/2007GL032250, 7 p.
3100 www.livinginperu.com 2007 "Evacuation stopped in Callao, Peru - Tsunami Warning Canceled August 15, 2007 23:02", retreived August 20, 2007, from http://www.livinginperu.com/news-4501-breaking-news-evacuation-stopped-callao-peru-tsunami-warning-canceled