Tsunami Event

Date Tsunami Cause Tsunami Source Location Tsunami Parameters
Max
Water
Height		 Num. of
Runups		 Deposits Magnitude Tsu
Int		 Warn Status
Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Sec Val Code Country Name Latitude Longitude Abe Iida
1980 10 10 12 25 23.5 4 3 ALGERIA EL ASNAM 36.195 1.354 .70 7 2.00
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Tsunami Effects Total Effects (Tsunami and Source)
Deaths Missing Injuries Damage Houses Destroyed Houses Damaged Deaths Missing Injuries Damage Houses Destroyed Houses Damaged
Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De
5000 4 9000 4 5200 4 250000 4
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Sergey Soloviev studied this event in a trip to Spain in October 1988, and gives his findings in Soloviev et al. (Reference #2130). Weak tsunami waves were recorded by six tide gauges on the south-eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula. He found the mechanism of this event similar to the earthquake and tsunami of 1954 in the same region. He concluded that the tsunami was "generated by a strong turbidity current caused by the powerful underwater landslide, that was caused by the earthquake on the steep underwater slope of Africa covered abundantly by loose sediments."

Tsunami caused by one or more major underwater slides also producing turbidity currents (Soloviev, r422). Tide gauge records at Alicante are also available at the Instituto Geogrāfico nacional, Madrid. (reference #4139)

References for a Tsunami event ID

References for the Tsunami Event

ID Author Year Citation
2130 Soloviev, Sergey L., Olga N. Solovieva, Chan N. Go, Khen S. Kim, and Nikolay A. Shchetnikov 2000 Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D., Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, Volume 13, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 237 p.
4139 Tsunami Risk and Strategies for the European region (TRANSFER) project 2009 Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Region Tsunami Catalogue (NEAMTWS), retrieved February 2009 from http://www.ioc-tsunami.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=1102