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Tidal Wave
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Incident     Year month date place country type type 2 file file no.

Tidal Wave kills 9,000

1900

September

8th

Galveston

America

Tidal Wave

Hurricane

No

(B)Cardex

Wave 10ft high: 10 dead

1996

November

17th

Nr. Brownsville, Texas

America

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

Cardex

Tidal Wave 12ft: 20 dead

1974

November

29th

off Cox's Bazaar

Bangladesh

Tidal Wave

Cyclone

No

(B)Cardex

Fishermen dead: 800

1976

January

19th

Ganges Delta

Bangladesh

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

Cardex

Shanties & Boats:100dead

1995

May

17th

South East Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Tidal Wave

Vicious storm

No

Cardex

Channel Coast Devastated

1904

February

3rd

Southern England

England

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

(B)Cardex

Tidal Waves x 2: 12dd

1979

October

16th

French Riviera

France

Tidal wave

Water Landslide

No

Cardex

Villages struck: 618 dead

1969

May

17th-21st

Vijayawada,Bay of Bengal

India

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

(B)Cardex

Children swept away

1988

October

25th

Bay of Bengal

India

Tidal Wave

Huge wave

No

Cardex

Fishermen missing:400

1997

August

22nd

West Bengal

India

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

Cardex

Tidal Wave 6ft: 539dead

1979

July

18th

Lomblem Island

Indonesia

Tidal wave

Volcano Collapse

No

Cardex

Tidal Wave kills 60

1942

November

28th

Kyushu

Japan

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

(B)Cardex

East of Java: 170+ dead Injured:400+

1994

June

3rd

Coastal Villages

Java

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

Cardex

Underwater Earthquake:6000 dead

1998

July

17th

N/W Coast of Papua

New Guinea

Tidal Wave

Weather

Yes

396

Tidal waves kill 150

1946

April

1st

Alaska - Hawaii area of

Pacific Ocean

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

(B)Cardex

Believed dead: 500,000

1970

November

12-13th

Ganges-Brahmaputra

Pakistan

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

Cardex

Wave kills fishermen:10

1996

February

21st

North Peru

Peru

Tidal Wave

Earthquake

No

Cardex

Killed: 8000

1976

August

17th

Mindano&Sulu Archipelago

Philippines

Tidal Wave

Earthquake

No

Cardex

Drowned 200+

1942

July

15th

Taiwan

Tidal Wave

Weather

No

(B)Cardex

Wave kills 500

1955

June

23rd

Near Patani

Thailand

Tidal wave

Weather

No

(B)Cardex

 

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