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September 16, 2015 Chile Tsunami
NOAA DART® and NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS Data

On 2015/09/16 46km W of Illapel, Chile (31.570 S, 71.654 W depth=25.0 km) at 2255 UTC a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurred.

This page provides data from the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART®) buoys and processed NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS coastal tide-gauge stations. Files contain raw observations, fitted tidal components, and residual tide values. The DART® data are the real-time water level data (in meters) as recorded by the Bottom Pressure Recorder (BPR) in extended-reporting mode containing measurement types of 15 minutes, 1 minute, and 15 seconds. Real-time data were extracted from the National Data Buoy Center.

On the right of the Tsunami Travel Time map below there are links to individual data files under column Data. The columns in those files are as follows: Time is in Julian days from the beginning of the year, Year, Month, Day, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Raw Observations, Fitted tidal component, and computed residuals in meters water column.
Details on the data processing methods. More information about the 2015 Central Chile tsunami event
Tsunami Travel Time Map
Tsunami Travel Time (TTT) Map with DART® and coastal tide-gauge locations. The TTT map is produced using Tsunami Travel Times (TTT) software developed by Paul Wessel.

Station number Station name and location Latitude [deg] Longitude [deg] Data [m] Plot
DART® stations
21402 E of Simushir Island 46.488 158.343 * *
21414 South of Amchitka, AK 48.948 178.247 * *
21415 S of Attu, AK 50.183 171.847 * *
21416 SE of Kamchatka Peninsula 48.058 163.505 * *
32401 SW of Arica, Chile -20.473 -73.429 * *
32402 W of Caldera, Chile -26.743 -73.983 * *
32411 WSW of Panama City, Panama 4.995 -90.85 * *
32412 SW of Lima, Peru -17.98 -86.33 * *
32489 SW of Buenaventura, Colombia 2.998 -79.101 * *
43412 SW OF Manzanillo, MX 16.026 -106.997 * *
43413 S of Acapulco, MX 10.842 -100.137 * *
46403 SE of Shumagin Is, AK 52.65 -156.946 * *
46404 W of Astoria, OR 45.857 -128.736 * *
46407 W of Coos Bay, OR 42.665 -128.806 * *
46408 S of Umnak Is, AK 49.668 -169.888 * *
46409 SE of Kodiak, AK 55.3 -148.515 * *
46411 W of Mendocino Bay, CA 39.33 -127.082 * *
46413 SSE of Adak Island, AK 47.999 -174.227 * *
51407 W of Kailua-Kona, HI 19.553 -156.546 * *
51425 NW of Apia, Samoa -9.51 -176.241 * *
51426 SE of Tonga -23.118 -168.303 * *
52401 ENE of Saipan 19.261 155.754 * *
52402 ESE of Saipan 11.869 154.039 * *
52403 N of Manus Is, New Guinea 4.02 145.52 * *
52404 NE of Manila, Philippines 20.782 132.348 * *
52405 W of Agana, Guam 12.985 132.184 * *
52406 NE of Guadalcanal -5.293 165.002 * *
55023 NE of Townsville, AU -14.715 153.537 * *
Pacific Islands tide-gauge stations
1612340 Nawiliwili, Hi 21.9544 -159.3561 * *
1612340 Honolulu, Hi 21.3067 -157.8670 * *
1612480 Makuoloe, Hi 21.4331 -157.7900 * *
1615680 Kahului Harbor 20.8950 -156.4767 * *
1617433 Kawaihae, Hi 20.0366 -155.8294 * *
1617760 Hilo Bay, Hi 19.7303 -155.0558 * *
1619910 Sand I., Midway 28.2117 -177.3600 * *
1630000 Apra, Guam 13.4387 144.6539 * *
1770000 PagoPago, A. Samoa -14.2800 -170.6900 * *
1820000 Kwajalein, Marshalls 8.7316 167.7362 * *
1890000 Wake Island 19.2900 166.6180 * *
9411406 Oil Platform Harvest 34.4683 -120.6733 * *