Preliminary Survey Results from Thailand:

A Japanese survey team has posted preliminary results of analyses of measured height of tsunamis throughout the affected area of Thailand. Report narrative is in Japanese, but figures and tables are in English.

Table of Historic Southeast Asian Tsunamis:

NGDC has compiled table showing tsunamis in the Indian Ocean derived from query of tsunami event database.

Lituya Bay, Alaska: tsunami triggered by rock avalanche.

Tsunami of 9 July 1958 was initiated when large earthquake created massive rock avalanche into fjord in southeast Alaska. The resulting impulsive wave is the highest ever recorded - 525 m. Incredibly, several eyewitnesses lived to tell about it.
https://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/LituyaBay/Lituya0.HTM
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1958LituyaB.html
http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1958/webpages/index.html
http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestWave.htm
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF0/091.html
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/web_tsus/19580710/19580710.htm

The Great Chilean Earthquake and Tsunami, 1960: largest recorded earthquake (moment magnitude, Mw = 9.5)

Earthquake offshore Chile, 1960, was the largest earthquake on record and spawned a tsunami that devastated coastal areas of Chile, Hilo, Hawaii and Onagawa, Japan.
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1960.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/historic/chilean60.html
http://asc-india.org/gq/chile95.htm

Krakatau, 1883: tsunamis generated by violent explosive volcanic eruption.

On the morning of 26 August 1883, Krakatau volcano erupted in one of the most violent eruptions of the last 200 years. Tsunamis generated by the great force of the eruption and caldera collapse inundated many coastal villages along the shores of Java and Sumatra, resulting in great numbers of fatalities. Until the tsunami of 26 December 2004, this was, perhaps, the most destructive series of tsunamis in history.
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Vocano1883Krakatoa.html
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Krakatau.html
http://www.indodigest.com/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=16
http://www.asc-india.org/gq/krakatoa.htm
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Indonesia/description_krakatau_1883_eruption.html

Storegga, Norway: Prehistoric submarine slides triggered enormous tsunamis in Europe

Three prehistoric submarine slides on the western continental margin of Norway involved the largest documented mass movements on the Norwegian margin in the last 50,000 years and devastated the coast of Scotland. Deposits attributed to Storegga tsunamis 7,000 years ago are widespread on the Scottish coast.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/iainsub/studwebpage/best/Storegga.html
http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/z_28_04.html
http://www.ormenlange.com/en/about_ormen/key_features/storegga_slide/
http://www.ibg.uit.no/~stein/abstarct02fig_NPF2002.htm
http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EAE03/06515/EAE03-J-06515.pdf
http://www.storegga.no/museum/nystorregabolge.mpg - animation of the tsunami

Chicxulub, Mexico: Asteroid impact site and tsunami trigger terminating the Cretaceous Period.

The Cretaceous Period ended with a bang when a 10-km diameter asteroid slammed into Earth near the present-day Yucatan Peninsula. The impact in shallow tropical seas of the time generated tsunamis that left identifiable deposits throughout the Caribbean region - or did it?.
http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/keller/chicxpage1.html
http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/keller/chicxpage1.html#14
http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/claeys00/node9.html
http://www.nearearthobjects.co.uk/report/chapter3.htm
http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~asphaug/WardAsphaugTsunami.pdf
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/tsym.html

 

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