Tsunamis in 2012

• January 9, 2012, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands0.03 m · M6.4 · 1 runup
• February 2, 2012, Vanuatu Islands0.08 m · M7 · 1 runup
• February 6, 2012, Tanon Strait, Philippines5 m · M6.7 · 51 deaths · $9 million · 15,000 houses destroyed · 32 runups
• March 3, 2012, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia0.04 m · M6.6 · 1 runup
• March 9, 2012, Off East Coast of Vanuatu0.05 m · M6.7 · 3 runups
• March 14, 2012, Hokkaido Island, Japan0.2 m · M6.9 · 2 runups
• March 20, 2012, S. Mexico0.2 m · M7.4 · 2 deaths · $600 million · 800 houses destroyed · 2 runups
• April 11, 2012, Off W. Coast of N Sumatra, Indonesia1.08 m · M8.6 · 10 deaths · 25 runups
• April 11, 2012, Off W. Coast of N Sumatra, IndonesiaM8.2 · 4 runups
• April 14, 2012, Vanuatu IslandsM6.3 · 1 runup
• June 10, 2012, Southwest Australia0.55 m · 3 runups
• July 15, 2012, Ilulissat Icefjord, GreenlandLandslide
• August 27, 2012, El Salvador-Nicaragua6.3 m · M7.3 · 40 runups
• August 31, 2012, Philippine Islands, Philippines0.15 m · M7.6 · 1 death · $300,000 · 18 runups
• September 5, 2012, Costa Rica0.16 m · M7.6 · 2 deaths · $45 million · 5 runups
• October 28, 2012, British Columbia, Canada12.98 m · M7.7 · 1 death · 178 runups
• November 7, 2012, Guatemala0.35 m · M7.3 · 48 deaths · $210 million · 2,769 houses destroyed · 7 runups
• December 7, 2012, Off East Coast of Honshu Island, Japan1 m · M7.2 · 3 runups
• December 28, 2012, Zhaojun Bridge, Hubei Province, China5.2 m

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.