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How does a tsunami strike?

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A tsunami can be caused in two ways . Sometimes a tsunami is caused because of an earthquake below the water and because of the seismic waves the water rises and causes a tsunami . If you know tidal waves are caused because of the moon's gravitational pull so sometimes when the pull is too strong then it pulls the water up and leaves so the water instead of going down goes ahead and if there is land ahead and there is population and property and there are full chances of them to get destroyed .

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A tsunami can occur when an earthquake or volcano go off underwater and move a big volume of water. This makes big waves which might go to land.

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A tsunami happens after an abrupt movement of the ocean floor. The most common causes are from earthquakes and underwater landslides.

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There's an earthquake underwater and it makes waves. When the waves come to the beaches they can't go ahead anymore so they go up instead.

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