April 9, 1958 Tsunami: Peru
A tsunami caused by an earthquake began at Peru on April 9, 1958.
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
- April 9, 1958
- Source
- Peru
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Tsunami intensity (Soloviev-Imamura)
- 1.5
- 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.
On 1958 April 9, 1958, the earthquake caused a tidal wave which fell on the coast of Peru. Some of the residential districts of Callao were flooded with water to a depth of almost 1/2 m (2 feet) (SN, 1958, vol. 48, N
3). In "Seismological notes" (SN, 1958, vol. 48, N 4 ) it is explained that the above report was published in the newspapers in Lima on April 9. Later, the Peruvian seismologist, E. Silgado reported that in fact, it
was not a tsunami which took place on April 9 in Callao, but a high sea, which coincided with the onset of high tide, as a result of which some of the residential districts of the city were flooded. By coincidence on the same day at 9:33:15, the station at Huancayo registered a shock with
an epicenter 230 km from the station, which was felt in Lima with a force of 3 degrees. (reference #415)
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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 1878.