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Fig. 2.9
Sequential photographs
of the March 9, 1957 Tsunami
overriding the backshore at Laie
point on the island of Oahu,
Hawaii. An earthquake in the
Aleutian islands 3,600 km away,
with a surface magnitude of 8.3,
generated the tsunami.
Photograph credit: Henry
Helbush. Source United States
Geological Survey, catalogue of
disasters #B57C09-002
