February 2, 1816 Tsunami: Lisbon, Portugal
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7 earthquake began at Lisbon, Portugal on February 2, 1816 at 00:40 UTC.
Where the waves reached
The source of the tsunami. No runup with a place is recorded for it.
- Under 1 m
- 1 to 3 m
- 3 to 10 m
- 10 to 30 m
- 30 m and more
- Height not recorded
The tsunami
- Date
- February 2, 1816, 00:40 UTC
- Source
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- Magnitude 7
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Erroneous entry
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this tsunami.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
We were not able to find any coeval source to support the evidence of this event and this entry which was previously considered as reliability 1 tsunami is now eliminated from the catalog, after a reanalysis of all available sources. (reference #4649)
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Sources
Tsunami events and runups from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI tsunami event 5787.