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1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami

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27: 42: 428: 439:, the first wave was described as a "straight white wall, about 4.6–7.0 m (15.1–23.0 ft)" which advanced to the harbor, ten minutes after the earthquake. The wave picked up steamers along the way and broke to just a few feet in front of the town. The run-up height was 9.1 m (30 ft) across the town. A smaller wave came shortly and penetrated further in the island. Thirty people perished when the waves swept them away. Run-ups of 6.0 m (19.7 ft) were recorded at 49: 999: 415:  6.5 occurred on March 17, 1868. There is uncertainty about its timing of occurrence, either 07:15 or 19:15 local time as several reports documented it happening in the morning while one reported it in the "evening". Most likely it occurred in the morning and "evening" was a typographical error. It was felt with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of VII ( 513:
was hit with very high waves, an estimated 18.3 m (60 ft) in height and a length of 5 km (3.1 mi). The tsunami swept away many personal belongings and items. In Saint-Rose however, the waves were determined to be no more than 10.0 m (32.8 ft) when a church said to house
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triggered by movement on the seafloor would likely be the primary source of the tsunami as the run-up heights of the tsunami were unusually high, and these waves arrived almost immediately after the quake. Computer-run simulations of the tsunami suggest the earthquake ruptured a steeply-dipping
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Little research has been made to study the earthquake and tsunami in detail. Tsunami deposits on Saint Thomas left in salt ponds and lagoons have not been extensively studied. Although the Caribbean has over 124 reported tsunamis or tsunami-like events since 1498, 27 of them have resulted in
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in the Danish West Indies. Rossi–Forel IX-level shaking was also felt on the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. Survivor accounts stated that there were two distinct shocks 10–15 minutes apart. On the Modified Mercalli intensity scale, the intensity ranged from VIII
465:, the 7–9 m (23–30 ft) waves drowned five people and inundated the island up to 90 m (300 ft) inland. The tsunami destroyed 20 houses and stranded numerous boats inland. In some parts of the island, the waves reached a run-up height of 14.6 m (48 ft). 542:. The Reid Fault located 17 km (11 mi) south of Saint Thomas on the northern scarp of the Anegada Trough runs for seven tens of kilometers may have ruptured and produced slip no greater than ten meter. The rupture may have initiated at a depth of 3 km along this 938: 514:
fleeing survivors located 10 m (33 ft) above sea-level remained undamaged. In Puerto Rico, waves of 1–6 m (3 ft 3 in – 19 ft 8 in) swept through the island's coast.
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Roy Barkan; Uri ten Brink (June 2010). "Tsunami Simulations of the 1867 Virgin Island Earthquake: Constraints on Epicenter Location and Fault Parameters".
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Landslide Deposits, Cookie Bites, and Crescentic Fracturing Along the Northern Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Margin: Implications for Potential Tsunamigenesis
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The earthquake consisted of two shocks, 10 minutes apart, and the two tsunamis came 10 minutes after each shock. Shaking reportedly lasted a minute in
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on the same island was hit by waves up to 7.6 m (25 ft). The surging seawater beached many vessels including a US Navy ship,
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has not seen any major earthquake along its subduction interface. A possible earthquake along the megathrust may have been the M
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Los Pueblos de Puerto Rico y Las Iglesias de Sus Plazas [The Pueblos of Puerto Rico, and the Churches of its Plazas]
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Narcisse Zahibo; Efim Pelinovsky; Ahmet Yalciner; Andrey Kurkin; Andrey Koselkov; Andrey Zaitsev (16 December 2002).
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Map of earthquakes around Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the 1867 earthquake is marked in a star located on the right.
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Little Saba saw the highest waves at 15.2 m (50 ft). A US Navy ship which had arrived the day before, the
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in the same region. Tsunamis from this earthquake were some of the highest ever recorded in the
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saw the sea receding and returning, flooding the place up to 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in).
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depth of less than 30 km (19 mi). The source of the earthquake is located in the
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along the beaches of Frederiksted. The tsunami measured 12 m (39 ft) on
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pose earthquake and tsunami risk to the area, although the Lesser Antilles
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National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) (1972),
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was swamped by the tsunami, killing nearly all of its crew on board.
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and several of its civic structures. The historic parish churches of
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James F. Lander; Lowell S. Whiteside; Patricia A. Lockridge (2002).
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Tsunami Stratigraphy in a Salt Pond on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
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Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office (April 1, 2014),
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In Puerto Rico, the earthquake heavily damaged portions of the
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The USS De Soto after repairs seen in Puerto Rico in 1868.
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Caribbean Tsunamis: A 500-Year History from 1498-1998
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1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami is located in Middle America
UTC
ANSS
ComCat
ComCat
Ms
18°12′N 65°00′W / 18.2°N 65.0°W / 18.2; -65.0
Greater Antilles
Lesser Antilles
RFS IX (Devastating tremor)
Mh
Anegada Passage
Saint Thomas
Danish West Indies
U.S. Virgin Islands
San Narciso Hurricane
Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antilles
Greater Antilles
Puerto Rico Trench
subduction zone
North American Plate
Caribbean Plate
Lesser Antilles subduction zone
strike-slip
Septentrional-Oriente fault zone
normal faults
shallow crustal faults
megathrust

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