Tsunamis since 2000 BCE
Every tsunami in NOAA's Global Historical Tsunami Database, from 2000 BCE to the present, with date, source location, cause, earthquake magnitude, maximum water height, deaths and damage. One row per tsunami source event.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | NCEI ID | integer | — |
| year | Year | year | — |
| month | Month | integer | — |
| day | Day | integer | — |
| country | Country | string | Country of the tsunami source, as named by NCEI. |
| location | Source location | string | — |
| lat | Latitude | number | — |
| lon | Longitude | number | — |
| cause | Cause | string | — |
| validity | Validity | string | NCEI's rating of how certain it is that a tsunami occurred. |
| earthquake_magnitude | Earthquake magnitude | number | Magnitude of the source earthquake, where there was one. |
| earthquake_depth_km | Earthquake depth | number · km | — |
| max_water_height | Max water height | number · m | Maximum water height above reference sea level observed for the event. |
| intensity | Intensity | number | Soloviev–Imamura tsunami intensity, I = log2(√2 × mean runup height). |
| runups | Runup records | integer | Number of locations where the waves were observed or measured. |
| deaths | Tsunami deaths | integer | — |
| deaths_total | Total deaths | integer | Deaths from the whole event (e.g. earthquake and tsunami). |
| injuries_total | Total injuries | integer | — |
| damage_musd | Tsunami damage | number · million USD | — |
| damage_total_musd | Total damage | number · million USD | — |
| houses_destroyed_total | Houses destroyed (total) | integer | — |
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