April 9, 1979 Tsunami: Bar Ulcinj, Montenegro
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake began at Bar Ulcinj, Montenegro on April 9, 1979 at 02:10:20 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
- April 9, 1979, 02:10:20 UTC
- Source
- Bar Ulcinj, Montenegro
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- Magnitude 5.3, 10 km deep
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Very doubtful tsunami
- Source location
- 41.956° N, 19.023° E
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.
Antonopoulos(1990) lists an unverified tsunami event for April 7, cited in Basili et al. (1979). Soloviev et al. (2000) associates the event with the earthquake of April 9, but does not give runup information.
More
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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 2914.