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Tsunamis

Global tsunami source events and runup-linked records from NOAA NGDC, with reported local water-height/runup observations, source relationships, and casualty context across deep history and modern events.

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Tsunamis

Global tsunami source events and runup-linked records from NOAA NGDC, with reported local water-height/runup observations, source relationships, and casualty context across deep history and modern events.

Maintainer
DaedalMap
Status
Published
Access
Hosted app, Map runtime
Date range
1610 BCE - 2026
Coverage
100/200 common
Geographic levels
2
Geographic scope
global
Category
disasters
Data type
events
Data sets
2

Source agencies

Data sets

Data setSourceLicenseTimeLevels
Tsunami Aggregates by Admin2 Region
tsunami_aggregates
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NGDC)Public Domain (U.S. Government)1610 BCE - 20252
Annual and rolling-window tsunami aggregate statistics by admin2 region, derived from the published tsunamis event source for cross-region comparison, ranking, and joins with other county-scale risk layers.
NOAA NGDC Tsunami Events
tsunamis_events
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NGDC)Public Domain (U.S. Government)2000 BCE - 2026-
Global tsunami event catalog from the NOAA NGDC tsunami database. This normalized source is the primary event-level tsunami execution lane for the API and should be used for historical tsunami incidents, named tsunamis, and event-level superlative queries.

Example questions

  • Which recorded tsunamis had the greatest local water height or runup? Please explain what that measurement represents.
  • Where do the event records show the largest historical tsunami impacts?