Within the site there is a map displaying events recorded over the past 2000 years (please select Past Events from navigation menu to the left). This is a crude reminder that tsunamis are in fact a real threat.

		Destroyed structures at El Popoyo, Nicaragua following 1992 tsunami.

As we look further back in time, records quickly become incomplete as significant areas such as Australasia were sparsely populated. To enhance this catalogue, scientists have dated some of the deposits washed ashore by larger tsunami and used new sea-bed mapping techniques to discover their cause.

• Magnitudes
  
• Data
  
• Frequency