Hawaii Tide Gage Data for the Nov 1952,
Oct 1994 and Sep 2003 Tsunamis  

The datafiles can be downloaded from the PMEL
anonymous ftp site:

Ex.:
tsunami{mofjeld}165: ftp hilo.pmel.noaa.gov

Name (hilo.pmel.noaa.gov:mofjeld): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password: (your e-mail addresss here)
230 User ftp logged in.  Access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd tsunami/mofjeld/hawaii_tsunami_data
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> mget *
ftp> quit


November 5, 1952, Kamchatka Tsunami

There are two ASCII time series files for the
November 1952 event:

hilo_nov_52.obs
honolulu_nov_52.obs

Each file has a documenting header describing
the water level data (meters relative to MLLW
with the tides still in the series) and the
time base (start time and sampling interval
of 0.6 min given). The data were digitized
from analog tide records by Vandorn and his
students.

October 4, 1994, Shikotan (Kuril Is. ) Tsunami

There are four ASCII time series files for the
October 1994 event:

honolulu_oct_94.obs
kahului_oct_94.obs
nawiliwili_oct_94.obs
port_allen_oct_94.obs  

Each file has a one-line header containing the
the number of data points and the station name.
There are two days of data in each file. The
water level data (high-pass filtered to remove
the tides) are in centimeters beginning at the
time are the earthquake (1323 UTC 4 Oct 1994).
The sampling interval is 15 sec, except for
Kahului where the sampling is one minute.

September 25, 2003

There are five ASCII time series files for the
September 2003 event:

hilo_sep_03.obs
honolulu_sep_03.obs
kahului_sep_03.obs
kawaihae_sep_03.obs
nawiliwili_sep_03.obs  

Each file has a one-line header containing the
the number of data points and the station name.
There are 30 hrs of data in each file. The
water level data (high-pass filtered to remove
the tides) are in meters. The data is in two
columns. The first is time (in hours since the
earthquake 1950 UTC Sep 2003) and the second
is the water levels. The sampling interval for
all the series is one minute.