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Title: EARTHQUAKE PRODUCED LOCAL TSUNAMI
Caption: (b) Aerial view of the town of Anoae at the southern tip of Okushiri Island, Japan, following inundation by a local tsunami from the 1993 earthquake. Note the extensive damage to the shoreline area and fires burning from leaking propane and kerosene used for heating. (Sankei Shimbun/Corbis/Sygma)
Keywords: earthquakes, tsunamis, shorelines, shores, coasts, coastlines, oceans, waves, floods, flooding