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Originally Posted by ardeegee

"Fairly big" is a bit of an understatement-- there was one in 1964 that was around 3 times more powerful than this week's Japan quake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake

Which caused a tsunami that rolled into the Alberni Inlet on Vancouver Island's west coast, March 27, 1964.

Tsunami slams B.C. coast ~ CBC video archive

Broadcast Date: March 31, 1964

Just before midnight on March 27, 1964, the first of six massive waves strikes Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Sparked by the deadly Good Friday earthquake in Alaska a few hours earlier, a two-storey "wall of water" topples trees, flings cars into buildings and rips houses from their foundations. CBC Television talks to residents as they struggle to recover.