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In the year 2004, the Indian ocean was hit with an undersea earthquake that resulted in a tsunami hitting Thailand and surrounding landmasses. Over 200,000 people were killed in more than a dozen different countries.
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What words describe tsunami?
Words that could describe a tsunami include: advancing (fast advancing) churning crashing damaging deceptive deep (deep waters) destructive fast high (high waters)horrific life-threatening mesmerizing (to witness) mysterious powerful rushing swirling tall terrible towering tumbling
How does the temperature change if you have an earthquake or tsunami?
The temperature changes because high winds take place and tsunamis are huge waves that come from the ocean which would be cold.
What was the speed of the tsunami after the earthquake in Japan on March 11 2011?
Britain's National Oceanography Centre said "the tsunami quickly roared through the Pacific Ocean at comparable speeds to a jumbo jet flying in the sky".The speed of tsunami waves depends on the depth of the sea where the waves occurs, where the speed can reach hundreds of kilometers per hour if the tsunami forms in deep water. When it hits land it is "almost like a freight train that smashes everything in its path," said a professor of engineering at the University of Ottawa, "usually in a sequence of two or three waves".The tsunami wave height can reach a few centimeters to several meters, but when it reaches shore the wave height can reach tens of meters due to a buildup of the water. When the tsunami reaches the coast of the mainland it could travel over land with a range of several hundred meters up to a few kilometers. In the case of Japan's recent tsunami it reached up to 10 km or (6 mi) inland.Another Answer:500 MPH is the commonly accepted speed of the energy wave in a tsunami in the open ocean. In this state, it typically only has an amplitude of a couple of feet. Most boats in the ocean will not even notice a tsunami as it goes past them. As it approachs land, however, it slows down and gains amplitude. This change depends on the topography of the ocean floor, but a typical approach speed is about 50 MPH with an amplitude closer to 30 to 60 feet, depending on the energy.
How do you avoid the tsunami in future?
You can reduce effect of tsunami but there is no way you can avoid it for certain, area which are most likely to get hit by tsunami are area near sea and ocean (large amount of water) and area which also has high earthquake zone. If you are not affected by these two factors you are very unlikely to get hit by the tsunami.
How many minutes after the earthquake in Japan did the tsunami hit?
A tsunami cannot be precisely predicted even if the right magnitude of an earthquake occurs in the right location. Systems that uses bottom pressure sensors attached to buoys can successfully predict a tsunami. No one yet knows why a tsunami may or may not occur after an earthquake. It is not necessary that a Tsunami follows an earthquake. It only happens when focus of earthquake is in the sea bed. Since earthquakes are caused by seismic waves produced due to collisions of the tectonic plates, these waves high disturbance in the sea water and hence the water takes the form of Tsunamis.
How high was the Japanese tsunami 2011?
Reports of waves up to 30' feet in places.
How high was the Japanese tsunami wave?
Reports of waves up to 30' feet in places .
What was intensity of japan tsunami?
If you are referring to the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, it sent up to 40.5 ft. high waves.
How high can tsunami waves reach during a tsunami event?
Tsunami waves can reach heights of over 100 feet during a tsunami event.
How did Japan's tsnami effect Japan?
it destroyed the whole town, place, mostly fukushima... because of 2011 3,11th s tsunami and earthquake. now japanese people is aware of seas. the waves were so high!
How tall were the stunami waves in chapan?
the correct spelling is Japan and tsunami. The tsunami waves were 33 feet high.
What is a tsunami short definition?
Tsunami is a series of long, high sea waves.
Was there a tsunami in the March 2011 earthquake in Japan?
Yes, there has been continuous tsunamis with waves sighted as high as 30 feet.
How high did the run-up heights of waves go in the 2011 Japanese tsunami?
"The tsunami waves reached run-up heights (how far the wave surges inland above sea level) of up to 128 feet (39 meters) at Miyako city and traveled inland as far as 6 miles (10 km) in Sendai." (quoted from LiveScience website)
What was the height of the tsunami in Japan 2011?
The Tsunami waves were around 10 meters (33 feet) high.AdditionallyThe tsunami waves were as high as 40.5 meters (133 ft) in Miyako.The tsunami was so powerful its waves traveled the entire Pacific ocean and were felt from the coasts of Alaska to that of Chile
How many feet high was the tsunami that hit Japan on march 2011?
It was estimated to be 32.808399 feet (10 meters).
Will Japanese people survive the next tsunami?
This question doesn't really have an answer but it depends on the size of the tsunami and if the Japanese people can find high ground and or shelter
