Tsunamis
Tsunami are huge waves that form in large bodies of water (e.g., oceans, seas, large lakes), that are caused by abrupt vertical displacement of a huge column of water. The displacement can be caused by naturally occurring events such as earthquakes, landslides, volcano eruptions, etc., and even sometimes from underwater explosions. These can become natural disasters devastating to the people and properties along the shore lines where they ultimately appear, sometimes in waves as big as hundreds of feet high or higher.
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Hannah-12The Causes of Tsunami The huge waves called tsunami are caused by the abrupt vertical displacement of a large volume of a body of...
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any local administration(police,fire brigade,district administrator) or the disaster management group at the local level.
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NoThere are two main causes of earthquakes.Firstly, they can be linked to explosive volcanic eruptions; they are in fact very...
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The tallest tsunami ever recorded was at Lituya Bay, Alaska. July 7th, 1958, 1638 foot tall waves that were caused by a huge...
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Belize is too close to the equator to be at a significant risk for hurricanes. The majority of the country is at fairly low...
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because their call centres insist on ringing at dinner time! just kidding no idea
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there are lots but we feel about 5 of them it depends how big the quake adtually is
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The word tsunami is Japanese for harbor wave. Some tsunami may reach heights of 100 feet (30 m) or more. They are giant waves...
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Over exercising or the repetition of a movement that triggers the condition should be avoided.
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Wow! That is a very interesting question, to which the answer may never be fully known.Since the biosphere, essentially, is the...
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tsunamis are geologic cause. Typically they are triggered by earthquakes, but other causes can include landslides and volcanic...
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A tsunami is a large wave or series of waves usually triggered by an underwater earthquake or landslide. Tsunamis arise from...
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Largest/highest tsunami The largest tsunami ever recorded occurred on 9 July 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska. An earthquake measuring...
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Nukes can travel at top speed is faster than 13,000 miles per hour and can travel at distances of over 67,000 yards away if there...
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The ONLY cause of a tsunami is an earthquake. Nothing else.
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It would have to be Japan because they have major earthquakes and tsunamis every few years. Then next in line would be Chile.
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Tsunami (soo-NAH-mee): a Japanese word that means harbor wave; a sea wave of local or distant origin that results from...
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someone with acess to a phone and who was not dead would have rung emergency aids. there would have been a lot of people doing...
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A tsunami is a Japanese word for "big wave". A tsunami is kind-of like a hurricane but not that severe and it only last for some...
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Austria-Hungary, Mentenegro, and Serbia
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gwl;gmkltgw;gmklmgjwlktgntjgnwkl It is Geological,Human,and Weather
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There is no certain season... It depends on what you are around... as in cold and chilly climates...
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Large earthquakes often occur far from the most densely populated regions of the Earth. But they can still kill many people. When...
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The mantle has everything to do with this earthquake, without the convection currents in the mantle the plates would have not...
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i dont know....go to the library
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Singapore would get flooded utterly and nearly the entire island would be submerged underwater, along with large loss of life.
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Yes, though when, there is no way of knowing. Try contacting local weather experts for more info, though it is inevitable that a...
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Any locality situated on a coastline is, theoretically, able to be affected by tsunamis. The NSW coast could easily be affected...
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The death toll in Japan from the March 11th 2011 tsunami is at 8,133, and 12,272 are still missing. The Japanese police estimates...
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tsunami"s are like hurricanes and it comes up into the air and goes to certain places.
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A tsunami is formed when an earthquake occurs in the ocean. The sudden realise of energy pushes the waves and they travel in all...
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Well, thunder is created by the sudden burst of energy discharge when lightning strikes/appears. Lightning appears when...
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mid-ocean ridges
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It made people caution. It made nations that are located near the ocean invest in things like people who find and do research on...
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The water at the shore recedes and goes out to sea to contribute to the wave. (undertow)
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Japan in March 2011.
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The National Police Agency of Japan reports that as of September 11, 2011 a total of 15,854 deaths, 26,992 injured, and 3,155...
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A tsunami is a wave resultant from a storm. However, cyclones and typhoons are very similar with cyclones occurring in the...
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It causes damage to buildings and infrastructure, animals and plants due to the fast waves that destroys everything in its path....
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It doesn't push a tidal wave (a misleading name for a tsunami), but it does push a storm surge. The leading quadrant (typically...
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I cannot find any Internet pages confirming tsunami hitting Fiji during the last 3 years. Probably during the last million years...
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An estimated 229,866 people died.
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The tsunami in 2004 must have been the one that hit Indonesia on Boxing Day. Yes, the wave was big and fast.
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No. Tsunamis cause destruction where they hit the coastline, but they have nothing to do with thunderstorms, which are related to...
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The wave spoiled lots of homes and lives people had to sleep on the street . There were lots of DEATHS aloung with people getting...
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The tsunami triggered from Japan's earthquake originated off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula, TÅhoku near Sendai, Japan....
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Tsunamis don't only happen in the summer. The correlation between summer and tsunamis, however, is because the waves are created...
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tsunamis are not weather relates at all. they are usually caused by earthquakes under the sea, like Japan. also they are...
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It depends on the depth. On deep oceans it can hit 500 mph. Near the land it slows down to 20 or 30...
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I believe the answer is yes. There are faults off the coast of California of the type that can initiate Tsunamis, and there is...
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Britain's National Oceanography Centre said "the tsunami quickly roared through the Pacific Ocean at comparable speeds to a jumbo...
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earthquake and ocean make a tsunami. earthquake= earth and energy and wave and earth, ocean= sea and water energy= fire and air,...
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The difference between a earthquake forecast and an earthquake prediction us that an earth quake forecast is when people say...
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Not at all usually. But occasionally they could burst into a nuclear power station and smash it up and release radioactivity. For...
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No they can't stop a tsunami in the future because a tsunami is apart of nature its like saying can you stop a tornado
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First off, it's important to be clear about the fact that tsunamis themselves can not generally be mitigated or reduced in...
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a tsunami happened in Hawaii in the summer and that's all i know
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None.The Earth moves or a meteorite, earthquake, or other underwater occurrence can make a Tsunami form. But,Oil drilling in the...
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Massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake happened off coast of Japan on Friday, March 11th 2011 at 2:46pm local time (05:46 GMT), which...
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The tsunami triggered by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 reportedly struck a coastal city...
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as the water becomes more shallow the wave becomes bigger then once it peaks, its usually on land and collapses
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Consisting of over seven thousand islands, experiencing near daily earthquakes, and being located on the Ring of Fire, the...
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This is straight from the book:1.Solar radiation hits Earth and it's atmosphere2.Earth loses energy by reflection of sunlight...
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The 8.9 magnitude earthquake (later upgraded to 9.0) struck northeast Japan on Friday 3/11/2011 @ 2:46 PM local time and set off...
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No sometimes not a month ago the usa got a small earthquake on the east coast and caused no tusanmi
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An underwater earthquake occurred. The seafloor shifted by 15m and caused a large displacement in water, which caused a wave to...
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Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore, the nations of ex Yugoslavia are: Montenegrins, Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians, Bosnian.
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7:58 am is the tiime that the tsunami first hit Indonesia. This answer was submitted by "Geog 1(Georgraphy)".
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1: dont live by the ocean
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They now know they have to take precautions in that area.
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No. While hurricanes produce large waves they do not produce tsunamis. Tsunamis are triggered by underwater earthquakes or...
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AnswerAn underground earthquake occurred moving every centimetre of the earth. One of the plates slid under the other allowing...
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A person should make sure they have emergency water and food to last them at least 3 days. They should secure items (picture...
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The word tsunami is a Japanese word, translated as "harbour wave". It is not a tidal wave. Tsunamis are usually caused by...
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The original Japanese term is literally translated as "harbor wave." It was said that this became the name because they thought...
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Most earthquakes occur along the edge of the oceanic and continental plates. The earth's crust is made up of several pieces,...
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Because of the plate boundaries rubbing against each other, moving apart, or one going under the other. When they rub against...
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yes, it might hit indonesia
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Almost 80% of the world's tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean. Tsunamis occur most often along countries which border the...
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they ruin lives, homes, towns, etc. they ruin beaches and lakes when they occur.
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The Asian Tsunami on December 26, 2004.
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Mostly Asia, but the tsunami also hit the eastern coast of Africa.
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The last hurricane was named Tomas.
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A tsunami can't be prevented any more that a sunrise can be prevented. It is a force of nature that man, at least as of yet, has...
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They cause economic decline as countries have to spend billions of dollars rebuilding and recovering from the damage. Stock...
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Tsunamis will definitely cause casualties and injuries. Tsunamis, as they originate from the sea, will wash fishing boats and...
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Surviving a tsunami With major tsunamis happening every few years, it's a topic that is important to consider if you live near a...
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No, tsunamis are created by undersea earthquakes. Sometimes a hurricane may cause very rough seas and create large waves, but...
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people gave money. Made packs to send over to Asia containing food supplies and water.
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When a tsunami wave comes ashore, it can affect a huge area of land, transforming the landscape. First, a tsunami wave throws...
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A tsunami is an ocean wave caused by an earthquake. It is not a tidal wave.
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