The 8.6 <span about="#mwt136" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"M","href":"./Template:M"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"w"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mw0w" typeof="mw:Transclusion">M</span><sub about="#mwt136">w</sub><span about="#mwt136" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><link about="#mwt136" href="./Category:Articles_using_Mw_magnitude_scale" id="mw1A" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Aleutian_Islands_earthquake" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake">Aleutian Islands earthquake</a> shakes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands" id="mw1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aleutian Islands">Aleutian Islands</a> with a maximum <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mercalli intensity scale">Mercalli intensity</a> of VI (<i id="mw2A">Strong</i>). A destructive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tsunami">tsunami</a> reaches the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaiian Islands</a> resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilo,_Hawaii" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hilo, Hawaii">Hilo, Hawaii</a>.<sup about="#mwt140" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_1#cite_note-24" id="mw3A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw3Q">[24]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"><cite about="#mwt137" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCGs"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141016033328/http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1946/webpages/" id="mwCGw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"1946 Aleutian Tsunami"</a>. <i id="mwCG0">USC Thunami Research Group</i>. Archived from <a class="external text" href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1946/webpages/" id="mwCG4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a> on 16 October 2014<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCG8">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCHA">17 March</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt137" class="Z3988" id="mwCHE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=USC+Thunami+Research+Group&amp;rft.atitle=1946+Aleutian+Tsunami&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usc.edu%2Fdept%2Ftsunamis%2Falaska%2F1946%2Fwebpages%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+1"></span></span>