All About Tsunami
                     




TSUNAMI 


A tsunami is a number of sea waves brought on by 

an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic 
eruption. More rarely, a tsunami could be generated 
with a giant meteor impact using the sea. These 

waves can achieve heights well over 100 foot. 


About 80% of tsunamis happen inside the Off-shore 

Ocean’s “Ring of fireside.” 
 

The very first wave of the tsunami is generally 
and not the most powerful, successive waves 

develop and more powerful. 


Tsunamis can travel at speeds of approximately 500 
miles or 805 kilometers an hour or so, almost as 

quickly as a jet plane. 
 

America within the U.S. at finest risk for tsunamis are 

Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Or, and California. 


If caught with a tsunami wave, it is best to not go 
swimming, but instead to seize a floating object and 

permit the present to hold you. 
 

Tsunamis retain their energy, meaning they are able 
to travel across entire oceans with limited energy 

loss. 


Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese (tsu = 
harbor  and nami = wave), reflecting Japan’s 
tsunami-prone history. 
 

Scientists can precisely estimate time whenever a 
tsunami will arrive almost anywhere all over the 
world according to calculations while using depth 
from the water, distances in one spot to another, and 
also the time the earthquake or any other event 

happened. 


The Hawaiian islands are always at potential risk for any 
tsunami - they get about 1 each year along with a severe 
one every many years. The greatest tsunami that happened 
Hawaii happened in 1946, the coast of Hilo Island was hit 

with 30 foot waves at 500 miles per hour. 
 

In 2004, the Indian Sea tsunami was brought on by an 
earthquake using the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs. 
Following the earthquake, killer waves radiating in the 

epicenter slammed in to the shoreline of 11 countries. The 

ultimate dying toll was 283,000. 


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