On Friday, March 11, 2011 a 9.0 earthquake 80 miles east of Sendai, Honshu, Japan generated the Honshu tsunami that devastated coastal communities in Japan.
Surging waves were felt throughout the Pacific, including Hawaii and the west coast of the U.S., damaging harbors and causing evacuations of coastal residents. Visit the PacIOOS Map Viewer for detailed surge run up heights from this and past tsunami events.
NOAA’s Center for Tsunami Research has created animations of the tsunami propagation, and models of maximum wave heights throughout the Pacific. The models are intended to estimate of wave arrival time, wave height and inundation area when a tsunami is generated.