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Santa Barbara Channel, Alta California: 1812 Ventura earthquake: Earthquake or landslide On 21 December 1812, a magnitude 7.1 to 7.5 earthquake triggered a 3.4-metre (11 ft) tsunami (eyewitness reported more than 15 metres [49 ft]) in the Lompoc area, leveling homes and missions in the area. It left a ship inland before taking it back out to sea.
This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami Vermont: 4.0 March 31, 1953 [56] Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Washington (state) 8.7–9.2 January 26, 1700 1700 Cascadia earthquake West Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Wisconsin: unk. May 6, 1947 1947 Wisconsin earthquake Wyoming: 7.2 August 17, 1959
The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...
The tsunami triggered by the 2011 Japan earthquake rippled across the entire Pacific Ocean wreaking havoc in Santa Cruz harbour to the south of San Francisco, leaving heavy damage. ...
Tsunami [19] 1925-06-29: Santa Barbara Central Coast: 6.8 M w: IX 13 $8M 1923-01-22 Humboldt County North Coast: 7.2 M s: Severe Tsunami [20] 1920-06-21 Inglewood LA Area: 4.9 M L: VIII More than $100k [21] 1918-04-21: San Jacinto Inland Empire: 6.7 M w: IX 1 Several $200k 1915-06-22: Imperial Valley Imperial Valley: 5.5 M w: VIII 6 $900k ...
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and is the fourth largest earthquake in recorded history, a tsunami up to 40.5 m (133 ft) high caused 19,745 deaths with 6,242 people injured, and 2,556 people missing.
Toppozada and others in 1981 proposed a location 10–20 km (6.2–12.4 mi) southwest of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. Details of a possible tsunami would suggest a thrust-mechanism for the earthquake; similar to the 1978 Santa Barbara earthquake (>M5) which had a left-lateral and north-dipping thrust mechanism. [6]