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Historical Japanese Map with Flooding Locations from 1700 AK Tsunami

Detailed Description

Japanese historical accounts from 1700 document flooding along nearly 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) of Japan’s coast (locations circled above on the historical and inset maps above) caused by the tsunami following the M9.0 Cascadia earthquake. From Atwater and others (2015).

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Public Domain.