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"A Tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean."
"Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (detonations of nuclear devices at sea), landslides and other mass movements, bolide impacts, and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami."

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