Tsunami — Sulu Sea

When

21 Sep 1897

Kind

Tsunami

Coordinates

6.00° N, 122.00° E

Deaths

13

Injuries

14

Houses destroyed

33

Max water height m

7

Source quake magnitude

8.7

Runups

18

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquakes in the Philippines

The 1897 Mindanao earthquakes occurred on September 20, 1897, at 19:06 UTC and September 21, 1897, at 05:12 UTC. The estimated epicentres of the two earthquakes are identical, lying just off the southwestern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines, south of Basilan island.

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