Tsunami events 1970-2011

This dataset includes an estimate of tsunami events for the period 1970 - March 2011. It contains tsunami origins. This product was designed by National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Tsunami database, NOAA and modified by UNEP/GRID-Europe (doubtfull events removed (VAL < 2)). Credit: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Tsunami database, NOAA. Attributes descriptions: EV_ID: Event ID ISO3YEAR: Country and year ISO3: Country ISO3 ID_NAT: Event ID and ISO3 ID_CAT: NGDC ID YEAR: Year START_DATE: Year, Month and Day (YYYYMMDD) END_DATE: Identic to START_DATE TIME_GMT: Hours, Minutes and seconds (_HHMMSS) EQ_MAGNITU: Earthquake magnitude MAXWATERHE: Maximum water height above sea level (meter) FOCALDEPTH: Earthquake depth (kilometer) VAL: Tsunami event validity 2 questionable tsunami 3 probable tsunami 4 definite tsunami CODE: Tsunami cause code 1 Earthquake 3 Earthquake and Landslide 6 Volcano 7 Volcano and Landslide 8 Landslide COUNTRY: Country given per NGDC STATE_PROV: State or province NAME: Location name LATITUDE: Latitude (decimal degrees) LONGITUDE: Longitude (decimal degrees)