January 1947 Tsunami: Hawaii, United States
A tsunami of meteorological origin began at Hawaii, United States in January 1947.
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
- January 1947
- Source
- Hawaii, United States
- Cause
- Meteorological
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Tsunami intensity (Soloviev-Imamura)
- 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.
Waves of meteorological origin reached heights on the Hawaiian coast larger than those of the April 1946 tsunami. There is no evidence of a tsunami on this date.
At many places on the coast of the Hawaiian islands there were storm waves higher than the tsunami of 1.IV.1946 (Reference #415).
More
Every tsunami in 1947The 1900sTsunamis of United StatesAlerts in force
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 1771.