January 2, 2010 Tsunami: Cheju (Jeju) Strait, South Korea
A tsunami of meteorological origin began at Cheju (Jeju) Strait, South Korea on January 2, 2010. It killed 1 person.
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
- January 2, 2010
- Source
- Cheju (Jeju) Strait, South Korea
- Cause
- Meteorological
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Questionable tsunami
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
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.
On 2 January 2010 a meteotsunami affected the southern coast of Korea and islands located in Cheju Strait; one person in the area of Komundo Island went missing during this event (Kim et al. 2017).
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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 5739.