Analysis of the Tsunami Travel Time maps for damaging tsunamis in the World Ocean

Of all 2250 tsunamigenic events historically known, only 223 (about 10%) resulted in human fatalities. Geographical distribution of these events is shown in Fig.4. Less than a quarter of all the events had the number of fatalities exceeding 1000, and only in 132 cases the death tall exceeded 10,000. In all but 11 events, listed in Table 1, the resulted damage and all fatalities were limited to a nearby area within one hour propagation time. Those 11 events are the so called trans-oceanic tsunamis and they were able to transfer their energy well outside the area of origin. However, a detailed analysis given in Section 4 shows that even in trans-oceanic tsunamis a major damage and over 90% of all fatalities occur in the nearby area within one hour propagation time.