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2 “The Tsunami Has No Borders”: Considering the Significance of Disaster in North Pacific History
Abstract Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions have been frequent features of the North Pacific in historical times. However, these violent and dramatic events have rarely been examined by historians, and their role in the longer history of the region is murky at best. This chapter briefly surveys a few major earthquakes and tsunamis which have taken place in the North Pacific since the arrival of the Russian Empire and offers the conclusion that, while these events may have had substantial and devastating impacts in local areas, they do not appear to have substantially impacted long-term processes in the human history of the region, such as Russian and American colonisation.
Keywords earthquake, tsunami, Alaska, Kodiak, Kamchatka
