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There was a documentary a while back about a certain First Nations community on Vancouver Island, Sarita, British Columbia, near Port Alberni, that had been the victim of a tsunami that reached it from Japan - in other words, not from the Cascadia earthquake - but I'm not certain of the date; 1790 seems a bit late but that might be it, the Okinawa - Iyejima Islands? - tsunami seems like a better date, but would it have had any strength on the other side of the Pacific? I'll see what I can find out about the Sarita tsunami disaster; must be something online somewhere.... Skookum1 ( talk) 07:44, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
How would people feel about changing the plural to "tsunamis" throughout the article (including its title)? Wiktionary lists it as a valid plural, and the lack of a final "s" can be needlessly confusing to English readers. -- Doradus ( talk) 20:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
DumZiBoT ( talk) 04:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
lots of info but the most deadly ones shud b made into a separate list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.161.103 ( talk) 15:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
A catastrophic event similar to a Tsunami is mentioned in the history of the territory now known as the south Indian state of Kerala. The event occurred in 1341 leading to the silting and closure of the ancient port of Muziris, opening up a new port in Kochi and displacing vast areas of land and water. Since Kerala is on the cost of the Arabian Sea, a sea which has not apparently reported any other tsunami, the event remains to be satisfactorily explained. 116.68.91.27 ( talk) 05:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Here is a video, of the Greenland tsunami which occured in 1995 [1]. The video clearly shows a landslide (ice) and a series of 5 metre ~ high waves crashing into boats in it's path. -- MelbourneStar☆ ( talk) 10:13, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
1792: Mount Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan (島原大変肥後迷惑) should be an independent article. I would like to write a longer article. -- Ichiro Kikuchi ( talk) 12:14, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Turkey is not a European Country therefore must be deleted from the European list of tsunamis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.255.91 ( talk) 16:46, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Please stop to vandalise the European section, Turkey is not a European country, it doesn't belong to the European landmass and Izmit lis in Asia, please stop to remove it from the Asian list of tsunamis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.255.91 ( talk) 17:06, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Turkey IS NOT EUROPE, therefore it must not be mention among the European Tsunami. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.253.222 ( talk) 17:39, 17 September 2011 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmit: IZMIT=ASIA!How the Hell the Tsunami in Izmit is recorded in the European list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.229.182 ( talk) 18:06, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Please stop vandalizing the European and Asian lists of Tsunami. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.229.182 ( talk) 18:13, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Many of the tsunamis on this list are 'historic', but some like the 2007 Niigata and any before recorded history can only be called 'historical', like that caused by the Storegga Slide. I think that this article should, therefore, be renamed to List of historical tsunamis. I'm aware that there is a slight difference in usage here between American and British English, so I'm seeking comments before making any formal move proposal. Mikenorton ( talk) 13:01, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the first point in this section - it's over 2 years and there have been no responses, so I'm being belatedly bold and moving the page. Mikenorton ( talk) 20:38, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Regarding whether the words "and prehistorical" should be added to the list description:
Elriana ( talk) 18:23, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
It has only just occurred to me that there would be nothing wrong in simply renaming this page to List of tsunamis (althought that title is currently a redirect to this page) - would that work? Mikenorton ( talk) 18:16, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
If this list were in table form it could be sorted by date, continent or death toll without creating separate lists for each ordering system. Most lists of earthquakes in wikipedia seem to be in table form. Any opinions? Elriana ( talk) 04:23, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
I'll be working on some of the copy editing when I have time. Elriana ( talk) 14:21, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Other tsunamis that may be added to this list with the appropriate references are listed below. I suggest that editors either delete or cross-out entries as they are incorporated into the main article. Elriana ( talk) 21:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Tsunamis in
South Asia Source: Amateur Seismic Centre, India [1] | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | Location | |||||
September 1524 | Near Dabhol, Maharashtra | |||||
2 April 1762 | Arakan Coast, Myanmar | |||||
31 October 1847 | Great Nicobar Island, India | |||||
28 November 1945 | Mekran coast, Balochistan |
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office, [2]
References
1) We still seem to be missing a number of events.
2) The descriptions column could still use some judicious editing. In particular, those events with their own articles do not need to be described with quite so many details here. That's why we link to the main articles. If we stick to time, place, cause, size, casualties, and, in a few particular cases, one other reason for historical notability, I think we will have covered the important bits. Events without their own article could have a few more details, but if they get much longer than other entries, that content should be migrated into a separate article.
3)Highest and Deadliest sections still need fleshing out. The NOAA database mentioned above is a great source for this.
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Doesn't the one on 2017-06-17 in western Greenland qualify (4 deaths), even though it was not caused by an earthquake, but a landslide?
Some references:
-- Mortense ( talk) 22:45, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if you folks busily working on this article would like some criticism, and a suggestion. The main criticism is this: in viewing this article, as soon as I get down to the list(s), what I see is four columns of mostly empty space, and a final column jam-packed with text. This is very unbalanced, both aesthetically, and in the presentation of information; it is wastefully inefficient use of screen space. It also means that (for my typical browser configuration) I can see only three or four entries at a time, which is so "zoomed in" that I loose sight of the overall list.
A more efficient way of organizing immediately occurred to me, and I have taken the liberty of replicating your first list ("Prehistoric") here, with a slight but, I think, very useful modification: moving the over-full descriptions out of the table. These are replaced with a link to the descriptions, which now follow the table as regular text.
Exempli gratia:
Date | Location | Main Article | Primary Cause | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
≈7000–6000 BCE | Lisbon, Portugal | Unknown | Desc. | |
≈6225–6170 BCE | Norwegian Sea | Storegga Slide | Landslide | Desc. |
≈1600 BCE | Santorini, Greece | Minoan eruption | Volcanic eruption | Desc. |
[Big change: descriptive text pulled out of the table, replaced with links. Also some formatting adjustments.]
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t001: A series of giant boulders and cobbles have been found 14 m above mean sea level near Guincho Beach. [1]
The Storegga Slides occurred 100 km north-west of the Møre coast in the Norwegian Sea, causing a very large tsunami in the North Atlantic Ocean. This collapse involved an estimated 290 km length of coastal shelf, with a total volume of 3,500 km3 of debris. [2] Based on carbon dating of plant material recovered from sediment deposited by the tsunami, the latest incident occurred around ~6225–6170 BCE. [3] In Scotland, traces of the subsequent tsunami have been recorded, with deposited sediment being discovered in Montrose Basin, the Firth of Forth, up to 80 km inland and 4 metres above current normal tide levels.
The volcanic eruption on Santorini, Greece is assumed to have caused severe damage to cities around it, most notably the Minoan civilization on Crete. A tsunami is assumed to be the factor that caused the most damage.
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If you play around with this format I think you will find that the display is easier on the reader – the actual list(s) becomes essentially a sortable index into the text, which could become a review article — and also much easier to edit.
Questions? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 04:40, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
I've added some annotations explaining the changes. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 18:42, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
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Onkl ( talk) 06:38, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
I prefer the descriptions in the table itself. Having them in a separate linked place is confusing to me. The paragraphs for adjacent events end up in sequence with no information on where one ends and the next starts or which paragraph is about what. At the point at which enough information has been added to make this information less confusing, you've essentially duplicated the existing table. If there was a way to make the descriptions show as a preview of a couple of lines that is expandable into the full paragraph upon clicking, that would be very cool. But I don't think wikipedia supports this in tables at the moment?
One thing I have tried to do over the years is shorten the descriptions. Most are not too long (making each entry 4-6 lines tall on my screen), but some are still much longer. I'll keep poking at shortening when I get time, however the consensus here turns out. Elriana ( talk) 21:40, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
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There was a documentary a while back about a certain First Nations community on Vancouver Island, Sarita, British Columbia, near Port Alberni, that had been the victim of a tsunami that reached it from Japan - in other words, not from the Cascadia earthquake - but I'm not certain of the date; 1790 seems a bit late but that might be it, the Okinawa - Iyejima Islands? - tsunami seems like a better date, but would it have had any strength on the other side of the Pacific? I'll see what I can find out about the Sarita tsunami disaster; must be something online somewhere.... Skookum1 ( talk) 07:44, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
How would people feel about changing the plural to "tsunamis" throughout the article (including its title)? Wiktionary lists it as a valid plural, and the lack of a final "s" can be needlessly confusing to English readers. -- Doradus ( talk) 20:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
DumZiBoT ( talk) 04:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
lots of info but the most deadly ones shud b made into a separate list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.161.103 ( talk) 15:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
A catastrophic event similar to a Tsunami is mentioned in the history of the territory now known as the south Indian state of Kerala. The event occurred in 1341 leading to the silting and closure of the ancient port of Muziris, opening up a new port in Kochi and displacing vast areas of land and water. Since Kerala is on the cost of the Arabian Sea, a sea which has not apparently reported any other tsunami, the event remains to be satisfactorily explained. 116.68.91.27 ( talk) 05:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Here is a video, of the Greenland tsunami which occured in 1995 [1]. The video clearly shows a landslide (ice) and a series of 5 metre ~ high waves crashing into boats in it's path. -- MelbourneStar☆ ( talk) 10:13, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
1792: Mount Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan (島原大変肥後迷惑) should be an independent article. I would like to write a longer article. -- Ichiro Kikuchi ( talk) 12:14, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Turkey is not a European Country therefore must be deleted from the European list of tsunamis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.255.91 ( talk) 16:46, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Please stop to vandalise the European section, Turkey is not a European country, it doesn't belong to the European landmass and Izmit lis in Asia, please stop to remove it from the Asian list of tsunamis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.255.91 ( talk) 17:06, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Turkey IS NOT EUROPE, therefore it must not be mention among the European Tsunami. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.253.222 ( talk) 17:39, 17 September 2011 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmit: IZMIT=ASIA!How the Hell the Tsunami in Izmit is recorded in the European list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.229.182 ( talk) 18:06, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Please stop vandalizing the European and Asian lists of Tsunami. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.229.182 ( talk) 18:13, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Many of the tsunamis on this list are 'historic', but some like the 2007 Niigata and any before recorded history can only be called 'historical', like that caused by the Storegga Slide. I think that this article should, therefore, be renamed to List of historical tsunamis. I'm aware that there is a slight difference in usage here between American and British English, so I'm seeking comments before making any formal move proposal. Mikenorton ( talk) 13:01, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the first point in this section - it's over 2 years and there have been no responses, so I'm being belatedly bold and moving the page. Mikenorton ( talk) 20:38, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Regarding whether the words "and prehistorical" should be added to the list description:
Elriana ( talk) 18:23, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
It has only just occurred to me that there would be nothing wrong in simply renaming this page to List of tsunamis (althought that title is currently a redirect to this page) - would that work? Mikenorton ( talk) 18:16, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
If this list were in table form it could be sorted by date, continent or death toll without creating separate lists for each ordering system. Most lists of earthquakes in wikipedia seem to be in table form. Any opinions? Elriana ( talk) 04:23, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
I'll be working on some of the copy editing when I have time. Elriana ( talk) 14:21, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Other tsunamis that may be added to this list with the appropriate references are listed below. I suggest that editors either delete or cross-out entries as they are incorporated into the main article. Elriana ( talk) 21:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Tsunamis in
South Asia Source: Amateur Seismic Centre, India [1] | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | Location | |||||
September 1524 | Near Dabhol, Maharashtra | |||||
2 April 1762 | Arakan Coast, Myanmar | |||||
31 October 1847 | Great Nicobar Island, India | |||||
28 November 1945 | Mekran coast, Balochistan |
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office, [2]
References
1) We still seem to be missing a number of events.
2) The descriptions column could still use some judicious editing. In particular, those events with their own articles do not need to be described with quite so many details here. That's why we link to the main articles. If we stick to time, place, cause, size, casualties, and, in a few particular cases, one other reason for historical notability, I think we will have covered the important bits. Events without their own article could have a few more details, but if they get much longer than other entries, that content should be migrated into a separate article.
3)Highest and Deadliest sections still need fleshing out. The NOAA database mentioned above is a great source for this.
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Doesn't the one on 2017-06-17 in western Greenland qualify (4 deaths), even though it was not caused by an earthquake, but a landslide?
Some references:
-- Mortense ( talk) 22:45, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if you folks busily working on this article would like some criticism, and a suggestion. The main criticism is this: in viewing this article, as soon as I get down to the list(s), what I see is four columns of mostly empty space, and a final column jam-packed with text. This is very unbalanced, both aesthetically, and in the presentation of information; it is wastefully inefficient use of screen space. It also means that (for my typical browser configuration) I can see only three or four entries at a time, which is so "zoomed in" that I loose sight of the overall list.
A more efficient way of organizing immediately occurred to me, and I have taken the liberty of replicating your first list ("Prehistoric") here, with a slight but, I think, very useful modification: moving the over-full descriptions out of the table. These are replaced with a link to the descriptions, which now follow the table as regular text.
Exempli gratia:
Date | Location | Main Article | Primary Cause | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
≈7000–6000 BCE | Lisbon, Portugal | Unknown | Desc. | |
≈6225–6170 BCE | Norwegian Sea | Storegga Slide | Landslide | Desc. |
≈1600 BCE | Santorini, Greece | Minoan eruption | Volcanic eruption | Desc. |
[Big change: descriptive text pulled out of the table, replaced with links. Also some formatting adjustments.]
[Anchors can be visible, as here, or not. Various schemes possible here.]
t001: A series of giant boulders and cobbles have been found 14 m above mean sea level near Guincho Beach. [1]
The Storegga Slides occurred 100 km north-west of the Møre coast in the Norwegian Sea, causing a very large tsunami in the North Atlantic Ocean. This collapse involved an estimated 290 km length of coastal shelf, with a total volume of 3,500 km3 of debris. [2] Based on carbon dating of plant material recovered from sediment deposited by the tsunami, the latest incident occurred around ~6225–6170 BCE. [3] In Scotland, traces of the subsequent tsunami have been recorded, with deposited sediment being discovered in Montrose Basin, the Firth of Forth, up to 80 km inland and 4 metres above current normal tide levels.
The volcanic eruption on Santorini, Greece is assumed to have caused severe damage to cities around it, most notably the Minoan civilization on Crete. A tsunami is assumed to be the factor that caused the most damage.
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help)Having all that text in a table makes the table harder to edit. But likewise, the text was hard to handle because of all the citation details. So a second thing I did: I moved the full citations (done with the (cite} templates) into their own section where they are easier to handle. In their place I put in short cites that link to the full citations. I also put the full citations in (mostly) vertical format, so that in edit mode they are easier to read, and thus easier to check for errors.
If you play around with this format I think you will find that the display is easier on the reader – the actual list(s) becomes essentially a sortable index into the text, which could become a review article — and also much easier to edit.
Questions? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 04:40, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
I've added some annotations explaining the changes. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 18:42, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
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479 BCE | Potidaea, Greece | 479 BCE Potidaea tsunami | The earliest recorded tsunami in history. During the Persian siege of the sea town Potidaea, Greece, the Greek historian Herodotus reports how the Persian attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by "a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before". Herodotus attributes the cause of the sudden flood to the wrath of Poseidon. |
Onkl ( talk) 06:38, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
I prefer the descriptions in the table itself. Having them in a separate linked place is confusing to me. The paragraphs for adjacent events end up in sequence with no information on where one ends and the next starts or which paragraph is about what. At the point at which enough information has been added to make this information less confusing, you've essentially duplicated the existing table. If there was a way to make the descriptions show as a preview of a couple of lines that is expandable into the full paragraph upon clicking, that would be very cool. But I don't think wikipedia supports this in tables at the moment?
One thing I have tried to do over the years is shorten the descriptions. Most are not too long (making each entry 4-6 lines tall on my screen), but some are still much longer. I'll keep poking at shortening when I get time, however the consensus here turns out. Elriana ( talk) 21:40, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
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help)I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:58, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
What about the tsunami at Icy Bay, Alaska in 2015? https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/giant-wave-icy-bay -- Spucky123r ( talk) 22:23, 2 June 2020 (UTC)