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Tsunamis in History

334 significant events · page 1/6

From ancient coastal records to modern measurements. Records are sorted by magnitude and impact; each event has its own page with location, date, source and nearby events.

  1. 1.2010 CETsunami — Haiti & Dominican Republic· 316,000 deaths
  2. 2.115 CETsunami — Antakya (Antioch)· 260,000 deaths
  3. 3.1920 CETsunami — China, Gansu And Shanxi Provinces· 235,502 deaths
  4. 4.2004 CETsunami — Off W. Coast Of Sumatra· 227,899 deaths
  5. 5.1923 CETsunami — Sagami Bay· 105,385 deaths
  6. 6.2008 CETsunami — Sichuan Province· 87,652 deaths
  7. 7.1908 CETsunami — Messina Strait, Ionian Sea· 80,000 deaths
  8. 8.1033 CETsunami — Akko· 70,000 deaths
  9. 9.1970 CETsunami — N. Peru· 66,794 deaths
  10. 10.1935 CETsunami — Quetta· 60,000 deaths
  11. 11.1815 CETsunami — Tambora· 60,000 deaths
  12. 12.1693 CETsunami — Eastern Sicily· 60,000 deaths
  13. 13.1598 CETsunami — South Black Sea· 60,000 deaths
  14. 14.2023 CETsunami — Gulf Of Iskenderun· 56,697 deaths
  15. 15.1693 CETsunami — Island Of Sicily· 54,000 deaths
  16. 16.1755 CETsunami — Lisbon· 50,000 deaths
  17. 17.1668 CETsunami — Tancheng, Shandong Province· 42,578 deaths
  18. 18.1990 CETsunami — Caspian Sea· 40,000 deaths
  19. 19.1782 CETsunami — Taiwan Strait· 40,000 deaths
  20. 20.341 CETsunami — Cyprus Island· 40,000 deaths
  21. 21.1883 CETsunami — Krakatau· 36,417 deaths
  22. 22.1939 CETsunami — South Black Sea· 32,700 deaths
  23. 23.1939 CETsunami — Central Chile· 30,000 deaths
  24. 24.1783 CETsunami — Tyrrhenian Calabria· 30,000 deaths
  25. 25.1759 CETsunami — Israel And Lebanon Coasts· 30,000 deaths
  26. 26.1531 CETsunami — Tagus River, Lisbon· 30,000 deaths
  27. 27.1456 CETsunami — Bay Of Naples· 30,000 deaths
  28. 28.1202 CETsunami — Southwestern Syria· 30,000 deaths
  29. 29.1902 CETsunami — Mount Pelee· 28,000 deaths
  30. 30.1896 CETsunami — Sanriku· 27,122 deaths
  31. 31.1812 CETsunami — La Guaira· 26,000 deaths
  32. 32.1868 CETsunami — Northern Chile· 25,000 deaths
  33. 33.1976 CETsunami — Guatemala· 23,000 deaths
  34. 34.1822 CETsunami — Antiochia· 20,000 deaths
  35. 35.1752 CETsunami — Latakia· 20,000 deaths
  36. 36.1905 CETsunami — Kangra, India· 19,000 deaths
  37. 37.2011 CETsunami — Honshu Island· 18,423 deaths
  38. 38.1999 CETsunami — Kocaeli, Turkey· 17,118 deaths
  39. 39.1688 CETsunami — Izmir· 16,000 deaths
  40. 40.1169 CETsunami — Eastern Sicily· 16,000 deaths
  41. 41.1008 CETsunami — Persian Gulf· 16,000 deaths
  42. 42.1792 CETsunami — Shimabara Bay, Kyushu Island· 15,000 deaths
  43. 43.1771 CETsunami — Ryukyu Islands· 13,486 deaths
  44. 44.1960 CETsunami — Morocco· 13,100 deaths
  45. 45.1815 CETsunami — Bali Sea· 11,453 deaths
  46. 46.1934 CETsunami — Bihar-Nepal, Ganges River· 10,600 deaths
  47. 47.1952 CETsunami — Kamchatka· 10,000 deaths
  48. 48.1765 CETsunami — South China Sea· 10,000 deaths
  49. 49.1703 CETsunami — Latium· 10,000 deaths
  50. 50.1638 CETsunami — Tyrrhenian Calabria· 9,581 deaths
  51. 51.1985 CETsunami — Mexico· 9,500 deaths
  52. 52.1976 CETsunami — Moro Gulf· 8,000 deaths
  53. 53.1586 CETsunami — Ise Bay· 8,000 deaths
  54. 54.1881 CETsunami — Chios Island, Aegean Islands· 7,866 deaths
  55. 55.1668 CETsunami — Caspian Sea· 7,000 deaths
  56. 56.1855 CETsunami — Tokaido· 6,757 deaths
  57. 57.1833 CETsunami — Yunnan Province· 6,700 deaths
  58. 58.1995 CETsunami — Kobe, Japan· 6,434 deaths
  59. 59.1837 CETsunami — ISRAEL and SYRIAN COASTS· 6,000 deaths
  60. 60.1746 CETsunami — Central Peru· 5,941 deaths
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