August 22, 2007 Tsunami: North Adriatic, Croatia
A tsunami of meteorological origin began at North Adriatic, Croatia on August 22, 2007. The water rose as high as 4 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
- August 22, 2007
- Source
- North Adriatic, Croatia
- Cause
- Meteorological
- Maximum water height
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Probable tsunami
The toll
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
- Houses damaged
- Few (about 1 to 50)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Another meteotsunami event happened in Siroka Bay on 22 August 2007, when a 4-m wave (according to eyewitnesses a few cm lower than the one in 1984) hit the island in the afternoon hours. The oscillations with periods of around 10 min (according to eyewitnesses) lasted for an hour, having a peak around 15:30 UTC. One person was injured due to the panic induced by an incoming wave. Damage was reported in several houses and restaurants close to the seafront, including also an electricity breakdown on the island due to the flooding of the electrical installations. Fortunately, the regular ferry, which entered the harbour just at the time of the flood, escaped the wreckage at the last moment by retreating to the deeper sea, but a number of smaller boats and yachts were damaged during the flooding and ebbing of Siroka Bay. (reference #10630)
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 6117.