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A 1969 episode of the U.S. television series Hawaii Five-O titled "Forty Feet High and it Kills!" referenced the tsunami that devastated Hilo in 1960.
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende included the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in The House of the Spirits (1982) and The Stories of Eva Luna (1989).
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