What the records say
- When
- 4 Nov 1952
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 52.76° N, 160.06° E
- Deaths
- 10000
- Damage musd
- 1
- Max water height m
- 23
- Source quake magnitude
- 9
- Runups
- 332
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake
Fifth most powerful on record; in Russia
The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Mw 8.8–9.0 earthquake occurred on 5 November 1952 at 04:58 local time, triggering a major tsunami that struck the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula within the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page