It followed five months after Japan was hit by a large tsunami.
This time, he said, "we're all hoping that the lack of reports is because there wasn't a large tsunami, rather than the opposite."
It caused a large tsunami that flooded the southwestern coast of the island.
In the area near the trench, the coupling coefficient is high, which could act as the source of the large tsunami.
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Unfortunately, minutes after the earthquake, a large local tsunami struck the region.
Lituya Bay is the place of the largest recorded tsunami in history.
The large movement of earth under the water caused a very large and powerful tsunami.
For a large tsunami, these waves could arrive over a period of hours, and the first is not necessarily the largest.
It had a magnitude estimated at 8.6 M and triggered a large tsunami.