Tsunamis in 1983

• 1983, Brownsville, WA, United States0.6 m · 1 runup
• January 17, 1983, Ionian Sea, GreeceM7.2 · 1 runup
• March 12, 1983, Banda Sea, Indonesia3 m · M6.9 · 1 runup
• March 18, 1983, New Britain, Papua New Guinea0.13 m · M7.9 · 4 runups
• April 3, 1983, Costa Rica0.13 m · M7.5 · 6 deaths · $1 million · 3 runups
• May 26, 1983, Noshiro, Japan14.93 m · M7.8 · 104 deaths · $800 million · 3,513 houses destroyed · 236 runups
• June 9, 1983, Noshiro, Japan0.6 m · M5.9 · 1 runup
• June 21, 1983, N. Honshu Island, Japan1 m · M6.9 · 27 runups
• August 6, 1983, North Aegean Sea, GreeceM7 · 1 runup
• August 17, 1983, Kamchatka Bay, Russia0.1 m · M7.1 · 1 runup
• August 17, 1983, Luzon Island, PhilippinesM6.6 · 16 deaths · 2 runups
• August 17, 1983, Lesser Sunda Islands, IndonesiaVolcano
• August 18, 1983, Western Norway7 m · 1 runup
• October 4, 1983, Northern Chile0.2 m · M7.7 · 5 deaths · $1 million · 40 houses destroyed · 1 runup
• November 30, 1983, Chagos Archipelago Region, UK Territories1.5 m · M7.7 · 3 runups

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.