ClimbingNoob: Tsunami History

Tsunami History

Tsunamis in history 8000 years ago. A magnitude 71 quake and tsunami hit kamakura then japans de facto capital.

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It was 2004 the day after christmas and thousands of european and american tourists had flocked to the beaches of thailand sri lanka and indonesia to escape the winter chill in a tropical paradise.

Tsunami history. A tsunami is a series of waves and the first wave may not be the most dangerous. Some 27000 people died. They may even be launched as they frequently were in earths ancient past by the impact of a large meteorite.

Eruptions from the krakatoa volcano fueled a tsunami that drowned 36000 people in. A volcano caused an avalanche in sicily 8000 years ago. Tsunamis may also be caused by underwater landslides or volcanic eruptions.

Tsunamis have occurred frequently throughout human history. The april fools tsunami triggered by an earthquake in alaska killed 159 people mostly in hawaii. The earliest recorded tsunami in history.

The tsunami was the deadliest in recorded history taking 230000 lives in a matter of hours. On 26 january 1700. A tsunami wave train may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart.

The tsunami traveled a wide swath with waves as high as 66 feet striking the coast of north africa and others reaching barbados and england. List of tsunamis prehistoric. Tsunami devastates indian ocean coast a powerful earthquake off the coast of sumatra indonesia on december 26 2004 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and devastation across the indian ocean.

A series of giant boulders and cobbles have been found 14 m above mean sea level. After a colossal earthquake destroyed lisbon portugal and rocked much of europe. Waves as high as 100 feet 30 meters spawned by an earthquake swept the east coast of japan.

The death toll from the trio of disasters is estimated at 40000 to 50000 across portugal spain and morocco. As a tsunami wave approaches shallow water over land the wave slows causing the much quicker traveling water to pull up extending the wave vertically. Regarded as the largest recorded in modern times.

Reaching the shore these waves can then be over 100 feet with multiple waves occurring in succession.

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