Acehtsunami

On Jan. 27, 1700 – more than a few hours after the last big tremble on the Oregon coast, Japanese reserachers have found written reports of a tsunami that strike a coastal village about 300 miles northeast of Tokyo

’At midnight . . a tsunami strikes Kuwagasaki town. . Village members went to hills. Fires broke out and 20 houses were destroyed. In adding, 13 houses were reported to have been ruined by the tsunami. Because the tsunami and fire happen at the similar time, villagers were incapable to move anything, let alone furnishings or tools. . . . Also, for those who missing their houses, the officials in charge of the hills made an demand for timber’ to build impermanent shelters.

A record by the head of Miho village, almost 90 miles southwest of Tokyo, told of sea water running up in a above the ground tide. “The moving back water passed out very quickly, like a river. It came almost seven times before 10 a.m.In that day.. Lost its power gradually. . . Because the way the time came in was so strange, and was in fact unheard of, advised the village members to flee to Miho Shrine. . . It is said when the earthquakes occurs, incredible like large swell result, but there was no earthquake in either the town or nearby.”

Although the wealthy oral histories of coastal tribes don’t offer a precise date about the last earthquake, they suggest that a huge earthquake and tsunami occurred on a winter night.

Deborah Carver, a investigator from Kodiak, Alaska, said a few stories explain a huge earthquake in which elders tell the young they must run for high ground because of floodwaters that will follow. After spending a cold night in the hills, they found that all traces of their village and neighboring villages have been washed away.

A story from the Yurok citizens of Northern California describe paranormal beings called Earthquake and Thunder running up and down the coast producing the ground to shake, sink and be flooded by the ocean