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The Caribbean Tsunami History is a comprehensive 500-year compendium of 127 tsunamis from the earliest available report dated 1498, through 1998. The intent is to portray as accurately as possible the occurrence of tsunamis, both great and small. Many still do not consider a wave a tsunami unless it is gigantic. Most tsunamis are not so. Nor are they all detrimental. Many small tsunamis can go entirely unnoticed, depending on where and when they occur.
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O’loughlin, K.F., Lander, J.F. (2003). About the 500-Year Tsunami History. In: Caribbean Tsunamis. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0321-5_3
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