Antedating of "Tsunami"

[Dan Goncharoff]

The NYTimes used the phrase "mountain wave".

DanG

On 2/28/2010 3:44 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> Checking the newspaper accounts, the first telegraphic reports indicated
> a tidal wave, but subsequent articles did not use that term, choosing
> instead "earthquake wave", "volcanic wave" or just "Great Wave". A part
> of the problem is that the strength of marine earthquakes was, in part,
> measured on the "tidal scale".
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>       VS-)
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> On 2/28/2010 3:18 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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>> ... I am also surprised there is nothing earlier, in connection with
>> Krakatoa (under any spelling) but I am still investigating this
>> possibility.
>> ...
>>
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