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Tsunami Event Information

Tsunami Event Information

Year
Mo
Dy
Hr
Mn
Sec
Country
Tsunami Event Validity
Tsunami Cause Code
Oceanic Tsunami
Location
Latitude
Longitude
1586
7
10
0
30
PERU
4
1
Y
CENTRAL PERU
-12.300
-77.700

Tsunami Parameters

Maximum Water Height (m)
Number of Runups
Number of Deposits
Tsunami Magnitude (Abe)
Tsunami Magnitude (Iida)
Tsunami Intensity
26
6
4.6
3.5

Tsunami Effects

Deaths
Death Description
Missing
Missing Description
Injuries
Injuries Description
Damage ($Mil)
Damage Description
Houses Destroyed
Houses Destroyed Description
Houses Damaged
Houses Damaged Description
3

Total Effects (Earthquake and Tsunami, Volcano, etc.)

Total Deaths
Total Death Description
Total Missing
Total Missing Description
Total Injuries
Total Injuries Description
Total Damage ($Mil)
Total Damage Description
Total Houses Destroyed
Total Houses Destroyed Description
Total Houses Damaged
Total Houses Damaged Description
22
1
3
3

There was a severe earthquake near Lima, Peru which affected an area along the coast for 1000 km and 120 km inland. In Callao, the sea level fell by 14 m after the earthquake and then rose 24 m, inundating the land for a distance of 250 m, destroying everything in its path and washing the dikes away. Trees and bushes were uprooted and carried away by the water. The wave loosened the anchors of ships lying in the harbour. According to an inscription on a monument in Tokura (the prefecture of Miyagi), a tsunami arrived at the northeast shore of the island of Honshu, where it reached a height of 1-2 m. (reference #415)

The shore was inundated for 10 km inland (reference #79)

Waves were reported as being 84 feet high. The shore was inundated for 6 miles inland. (reference #39)

Reference #552 lists 26 m maximum runup height.

There is no evidence of 1586 Peruvian tsunami arrived in Japan. It was not an Orphan tsunami, rather a Ghost tsunami．(reference #11968)

References for the Tsunami Event

Id
Author
Year
Citation
39
Berninghausen, William H.
1962
Tsunamis reported from the west coast of South America, 1562-1960. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 52, no. 4, p. 915-921.
132
Heck, N.H.
1947
List of seismic sea waves. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 269-286.
150
Iida, Kumizi
1984
Catalog of tsunamis in Japan and its neighboring countries. Aichi Institute of Technology, Yachigusa, Yakusa-cho, Toyota-shi, 470-03, Japan, 52 p.
79
Iida, Kumizi, Doak C. Cox, and George Pararas-Carayannis
1967
Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, HIG-67-10, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 275 p. Bibliography to the Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, December 1967, 27 p.
1102
Kuroiwa, Julio H.
1965
Earthquake engineering problems in Peru. Individual Studies by Participants to the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, December 1965, vol. 2, Part 2, p. 142-171.
552
Lockridge, Patricia A.
1985
Tsunamis in Peru-Chile, Report SE-39, World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics, NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO, USA, 97 p.
1908
Montandon, Frederic
1962
"Les Megaseismes en Amerique, Revue pour l'Etude des Calamities." Revue pour l'e'tude des calamite's; bulletin de'l'Union internationale de secours, p. 57-97.
11968
Satake, Kenji
2017
Tsunami on Sanriku Coast in 1586: Orphan or Ghost Tsunami?, presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 12 December 2017.
1211
Silgado F., E.
1985
Destructive Earthquakes of South America 1530-1894, vol. 10, Centro Regional de Sismologia para America del Sur, Lima, Peru.
1111
Silgado F., Enrique
1973
Historia de los sismos mas notables ocurridos en el Peru (1513-1970), Geofisica Panamericana, vol. 2, no. 1, January 1973, p. 179-243. [English translation.]
415
Soloviev, S.L., and Ch.N. Go
1975
A catalogue of tsunamis on the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean [dates include 1513-1968]. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, 204 p. [Canadian Translation of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences no. 5078, 1984, translation available from Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OS2, 293 p.]