The 1945 Makran earthquake generated a tsunami in which sea?

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The 1945 Makran earthquake generated a tsunami in the Arabian Sea.

The magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck off Balochistan, then part of British India, on 28 November 1945. Its epicenter lay south-southwest of Pasni on the Makran coast, where the Arabian Sea meets the seismically active boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian plates.

The tsunami damaged coastal settlements and reached reported heights of about 15.24 metres in places. Death estimates vary widely, from roughly 300 to as many as 4,000, partly because historical records from the region were incomplete. The event remains an important example of tsunami danger along the Makran subduction zone.

A common mix-up is confusing the Arabian Sea with the Red Sea or the Andaman Sea. The Makran coast faces the Arabian Sea; the earthquake was not an event in the Caspian Sea, which is an inland body of water far to the north.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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