LARGEST RECENT TSUNAMIS

Tsunami of Hilo, Hawaii, consecutive to the Valdivia Earthquake of 1960

1929 Grand Banks, Canada
1946 Aleutian Islands, Alaska
1952 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
1957 Aleutian Islands, Alaska
1960 Chile
1964 Prince Williams Sound, Alaska
1975 Hawaii
December 26, 2004 South East Asia

The greatest tsunami recorded was caused between the islands of Java and Sumatra by the eruption of the Krakatau, in May 1883, where the produced wave reached a height of 42 meters.

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