Tsunami Event

Date Tsunami Cause Tsunami Source Location Tsunami Parameters
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Height		 Num. of
Runups		 Deposits Magnitude Tsu
Int		 Warn Status
Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Sec Val Code Country Name Latitude Longitude Abe Iida
1933 3 11 1 54 7.8 0 9 USA S. CALIFORNIA 33.616 -117.966 .10 2 -3.30
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Tsunami Comments

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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake at Long Beach. The tsunami was not observed on the San Diego, La Jolla, nor the Presidio marigrams. The Long Beach and Santa Monica marigrams show wave activity beginning before the earthquake and continuing more than 36 hours later. The emergent nature of the two readings, the early arrival times and the long duration of waves of 36 hours at Long Beach and at Santa Monica indicate a meteorological source with perhaps some seiches set up by the earthquake. Three people were killed in a reconnaissance flight crash when their plane crashed in takeoff. This is probably not a tsunami.

Harry O. Wood (Reference #3503) states: "There are no reliable reports of any conspicuous disturbance of the sea. Some disturbance in the near neighborhood must have occurred, but nothing of moment happened. Notwithstanding radio announcements and rumors there was no "tidal wave" so called."

References for a Tsunami event ID

References for the Tsunami Event

ID Author Year Citation
237 Lander, James F., Patricia A. Lockridge, and Michael J. Kozuch 1993 Tsunamis affecting the West Coast of the United States, 1806-1992, KGRD no. 29, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA, September, 242 p.
542 Stover, Carl W., and Jerry L. Coffman 1993 Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
3503 Wood, Harry O. 1933 Preliminary report on the Long Beach earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 23, no. 2, p. 43-56.