Tsunami

Great Chilean Struck Japan

Mar 17, 1960

100 people were killed and 42 went missing after a tsunami generated by the Great Chilean earthquake struck Japan.The earthquake measured 9.5 on the Richter scale, the largest ever recorded. The tsunami reached Japan 22 hours after the earthquake occurred.

Niigata, Japan

Mar 18, 1964

This tsunami killed 28 people and destroyed the whole of Niigata city. This earthquake was horrific and many people had devestating storiees to tell.

Japan, Honshu

Sep 20, 1983

A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Miyagi Prefecture in northeast Honshu in May 1983 killed 100 people, including a group of elementary school children having picnic on the beach and were swallowed up by a tsunami.

Japan, Hokkaido

Apr 7, 1993

An earthquake hit Okushiri Island, off southwestern Hokkaido. It measured 8.1 on the Richter scale and produced a 10-meter tsunami that washed away many homes and buildings . The tsunami killled 232 people, destroyed 1,410 houses.

Hokkaido, Japan

Jun 12, 1993

Aonae, a village on a low-lying peninsula at the southern tip of the island, was devastated over the course of the following hour by 13 waves of over two meters’ height arriving from multiple directions.Of 250 people killed as a result of the quake, 197 were victims of the series of t 7.8 earthquake,

Japan, Eastern Hokkaido

May 30, 2003

Measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, the quake was located 50 miles off shore and 30 miles below the surface of the sea. A total of 573 people were hurt; 41,000 were evacuated; an oil refinery caught fire; and a train derailed. The main earthquake was followed by a strong earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. Much of the damage was caused by a tsunami that reached a height of 1.2 meters in Kushiro in Hokkaido. The tsunami hit about one hour after the earthquake.

Japan, Hoshu

Jun 23, 2004

A series of powerful under sea earthquakes off of Honshu produced tsunami waves 86 centimeters high in Wakayama. . A powerful and shallow earthquake off of northern Japan produced tsunami waves several centimeters high.

Niigata, Japan

Jun 16, 2007

A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan, causing a fire and minor radioactive water leak at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants. At least seven people were killed and hundreds injured.

Pacific Coast of Japan

Mar 17, 2010

The Pacific Coast of Japan was struck by a small tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake 17,000 kilometers—half a world away— in Chile that reached Japan the day after the earthquake occurred.

Northerneastern, Japan

Mar 11, 2011

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake produced a tsunami 10 m high along Japan's northeastern coast. The wave caused widespread devastation, with 25,000 people thought dead and many thousands more unaccounted for.