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credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The island of Santorini and volcano Thera and its proximity to the island of Crete, whose Minoan civilization it may have helped wipe out ca. ~1,500 B.C.	credits: Creative Commons lafalott copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic description: Open ocean with boats	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive/University of California; Berkeley copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The third wave of the 1946 Alaska tsunami strikes a Hawaiian shore.	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive/Harry A. Simms, Sr. copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The 1946 tsunami wave hits Hawaii.
credits: NOAA/NGDC/Luis Bernucci copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Sea level recession and tsunami inundation during the 1960 Chilean tsunami. The inundating wave is about 8 m high.	credits: NOAA/NGDC/Luis Bernucci copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Sea level recession and tsunami inundation during the 1960 Chilean tsunami. The inundating wave is about 8 m high.	credits: NOAA/NGDC/EERI copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Oil tanks on fire at Valdez following the 1964 earthquake and tsunami	credits: NOAA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A NOAA research ship pitches on heavy sea and high waves.
credits: Natural Resources Canada /H.M. Mosdell, from the collection of W.M. Chisholm copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Buildings in Lord's Cove tossed and smashed by the 1929 Grand Banks tsunami in Nova Scotia.	credits: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Philip A. McDaniel copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A flooded village near the coast of Sumatra following the tsunami of 2004	credits: Public Domain copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A copper engraving of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami, showing burning, tsunami waves, and a disturbed harbor.	credits: Public Domain copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The volcano Krakatau prior to its explosion in 1883.
credits: ©The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Pacific Ring of Fire	credits: Public Domain copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Aftermath of the 1896 Sanriku Meiji earthquake and tsunami in Japan.