What are the chances of surviving a tsunami?

Answer 1

Surviving a tsunami

With major tsunamis happening every few years, it's a topic that is important to consider if you live near a high-risk area.

There are steps to take to ready yourself and your home. For instance, reinforcing your home could help diminish damage, as some have found in Japan's recent earthquake-tsunami.

But when the tsunami is imminent, you've got very little time to get control and get out. Here are some things to do:

• When you hear the siren or warning, do not stall. Many in Japan had 15 or 30 minutes to evacuate to higher ground, and it's what saved so many.
• The most important thing: get to higher ground and as inland as you possibly can. Depending on the force of the wave and the land mass, it can go in pretty deep. The wave's power will diminish the further inland it gets, so every meter counts.

Tsunamis kill people near sea level, near the coast. They don't kill people living up on the hill, or far inland, or out at sea. If you're on the beach and feel an earthquake, go immediately to the nearest hill. If you don't feel an earthquake, but the sea begins to go down suddenly or to boil, go immediately to the nearest hill.

Answer 2

To prepare for a tsunami the first thing you need to do is stay come during all times, if not asked to leave your homes find the tallest place around you and make your way to the top, take anly things that are needed

Answer 3

Get onto high ground as quickly as possible or catch onto something that floats but isn't heavy/hard enough to hurt you when buffeted around. It could also be advised to STAY CLEAR OF BUILDINGS

Answer 4

There is no real way to determine this. Some tsunami are large and affect hundreds if not thousands of people (such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami) which killed about 250,000 people.

Other tsunami generate waves only a few centimeters of foot high and can simply be walked away form or don't even make landfall.

Depends entirely on the size of the tsunami and your proximity to it at the time it makes landfall.

Answer 5

You can evacuate to higher ground immediately when the warnings are given.

Answer 6

Yor chances of surviving a tsunami is about 2 out of 100

Answer 7

Get to HIGH ground. If not accesible get to your roof.