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PMEL Publications Abstract


FY 1976

Tsunami wave heights in Hawaii

Loomis, H.G.

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Joint Tsunami Research Effort Report, NOAA-JTRE-161 and HIG-76-21, Honolulu, HI (1976)


This report presents maps of the shorelines of the Hawaiian Islands on which are recorded the wave heights of tsunamis in 1946, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1975. A brief history of tsunamis in Hawaii since 1819 is given along with a section on the statistics of tsunami prediction.


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