Tsunami!!! Images came from all over – OrbView for the space based recent images – Pacific Tsunami Museum – some via BBC.

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Tsunami!!! Images came from all over – OrbView for the space based recent images – Pacific Tsunami Museum – some via BBC.

Sumatra (Aceh) Sri Lanka An Earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia rocked down a lot of houses – and sent off a tsunami to kill even more. The tsunami killed people as far away as Somalia and Kenya in East Africa

The Sri Lankan coastline is fairly shallow – the red represents about 5 meter elevation. Sometimes 2km inland, or more!

How About Hawaii?? What was Shinmachi? Where was Waiakea?? What about Laupahoehoe? 1946 & 1960

Bad Idea – looking for fish! 1957

Downtown 1946

Coconut Island 1946

Coconut Island - receding 1946

Harbor 1946

Hilo Traintracks 1946

Kress Building 1946

Midway Atoll 1952 – Kamchatka earthquake

Hilo 1960

1960 Chile Earthquake

Suisan – waiting for

Near Suisan 1960

Hilo

Phuket – Thailand

Samoa / American Samoa / Tonga Earthquake 2009

Leone

Pago

Fagatogo

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