Skip to content
Destinations
Weather & climate
Nature
Outdoors
Culture
Events
Sky & live
0.4 mHighest wave

Tsunami of 19 November 2017: off New Caledonia

A tsunami started off the coast of New Caledonia on 19 November 2017; cause: earthquake. The highest wave reached 0.4 m. It is recorded at 6 places in 2 countries.

19 November 201722:43 UTC
earthquakeCause · M7.0
–Deaths
6Places the wave reached · definite

Where it started and where the wave arrived

New Caledonia · 0.4 mNew Caledonia · 0.3 mSydney · 0.2 mNew Caledonia · 0.2 mNew Caledonia · 0.1 mLitzlitz · 0 moff New Caledonia
Tsunami of 19 November 2017: off New Caledonia
< 0,5 m0,5–2 m2–5 m5–10 m≥ 10 m

Places the wave reached

TownCountries reachedWater heightFrom the sourceDeaths
–New Caledonia0.4 m218 km
–New Caledonia0.3 m86 km
Sydney · 0 kmVanuatu0.2 m208 km
–New Caledonia0.2 m152 km
–New Caledonia0.1 m254 km
Litzlitz · 1 kmVanuatu0 m591 km

Towns the wave reached

More tsunamis

Tsunami archive