April 21, 1995 Tsunami: Samar Island, Philippines
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake began at Samar Island, Philippines on April 21, 1995 at 05:17:01 UTC. The water rose as high as 0.1 meters.
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 21, 1995, 05:17:01 UTC
- Source
- Samar Island, Philippines
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- Magnitude 6.8, 23 km deep
- Maximum water height
- 0.1 m (0.3 ft)
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Tsunami intensity (Soloviev-Imamura)
- -2
- Tsunami magnitude (Iida)
- -2.3
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Definite tsunami
- Source location
- 12.047° N, 125.920° E
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this tsunami.
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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 2242.