February 17, 2011 Tsunami: Svalbard, Norway
A tsunami caused by a landslide began at Svalbard, Norway on February 17, 2011. The water rose as high as 0.3 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
- February 17, 2011
- Source
- Svalbard, Norway
- Cause
- Landslide
- Maximum water height
- 0.3 m (1.0 ft)
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Definite tsunami
- Source location
- 78.370° N, 16.620° E
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 tsunami wave generated by the displacement of a glacier (Tunabreen) in the Temple Fjord (Spitsbergen) in February 2011. [...] Approximately at 07:40 LT on 17 February, the instruments recorded a tsunami wave. [...] It is worth noting that the event occurred at low tide [...] The vertical displacement of the ice by the leading pulse was approximately 30 cm, the period of the tsunami wave was 90 s and the wave length was 1850 m. (reference #10286)
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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 5856.