August 15, 2008 Tsunami: North Adriatic, Croatia
A tsunami of meteorological origin began at North Adriatic, Croatia on August 15, 2008. The water rose as high as 2 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 15, 2008
- Source
- North Adriatic, Croatia
- Cause
- Meteorological
- Maximum water height
- 2 m (6.6 ft)
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Probable tsunami
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.
A fresh severe meteotsunami event was witnessed in the town of Mali Lošinj, the largest town of the eastern Adriatic islands. Two metre high wave suddenly hit the town centre, flooding the sea front houses, cars and infrastructural objects, and also trying to push a large number of yachts over the piers. Fortunately, the flooding of the town was short-lived, and only one major wave was reported. At the same time tide gauge at Rovinj, located on the top of a small peninsula (that means no significant harbour/bay seiches can be observed there), recorded a sudden 40 cm wave with a period less than an hour, clearly depicting the arrival of long ocean waves generated by a resonant process over the open sea. (reference #10630)
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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 6119.