What the records say
- When
- 16 Oct 1979
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 43.70° N, 7.25° E
- Deaths
- 9
- Max water height m
- 10
- Runups
- 6
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A tsunami in Nice, France, kills 23 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “une partie du chantier d'agrandissement de l'aéroport de Nice s'effondre en mer et provoque un glissement de terrain sous-marin qui cause un raz-de-marée de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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