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What is a giant ocean wave caused by an earthquake or a severe storm called?
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A Tsunami, or tidal wave, or seismic sea wave may be caused by an earthquake.
It is incorrect to refer to giant ocean waves caused by severe storms as tsunamis. Severe storms may cause giant ocean waves referred to as "Rogue Waves" - which are distinct from and NOT the same as Tsunamis.
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Is earthquake is also called tsunami?
No, an earthquake is a sudden shift in tectonic plates caused by built up pressure. This cause the Ground to shake. A Tsunami is a giant wave. Tsunamis can be caused by an earthquake happening under the ocean
What are the factors required to form an earthquake?
Earthquakes form when two or more tectonic plates rapidly shift against each other. This rapid shift releases a giant shockwave, or, as we know it, an earthquake.
How do you reduce the earthquakes effects?
Buildings can be placed on giant springs that can move slightly with the earth below them, they do not eliminate the danger of an earthquake, but they reduce it.
What is the giant continent that was composed of all the land on earth was called?
I believe it was called 'Pangaea' [Pan-gee-ah]
What are giant scorpion-looking anthropods called?
Large sea scorpions that lived during the Cambrian period were called Euripterids, and some were up to eight feet long!
What is a giant ocean wave caused by an earthquake or a severe storm?
A Tsunami, or tidal wave, or seismic sea wave may be caused by an earthquake. It is incorrect to refer to giant ocean waves caused by severe storms as tsunamis. Severe storms may cause giant ocean waves referred to as "Rogue Waves" - which are distinct from and NOT the same as Tsunamis.
What is the name of giant sea waves caused by earthquake?
giant waves made by earthquakes is called tsunamis
Is earthquake is also called tsunami?
No, an earthquake is a sudden shift in tectonic plates caused by built up pressure. This cause the Ground to shake. A Tsunami is a giant wave. Tsunamis can be caused by an earthquake happening under the ocean
Is a tsunami an earthquake?
No. A tsunami is a giant ocean wave. A tsunami can be caused by an earthquake, but they are completely different things.
What is tsuname?
A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor
Was the tsunami of 1 April 1946 near Alaska actually caused by the impact of a giant ball of ice from outer space which in turn caused the earthquake?
No.
What has caused the Earthquake in Japan?
The earthquake in Japan was caused like any other earthquake, by two tectonic plates hitting and moving each other. The tsunami in Japan was caused because the earthquake happened close to the surface of the earth in the lithosphere (crust). The seismic waves (mostly the Secondary waves rather than the Primary Compression Waves) shook the water and later became a giant tidal wave, which was the tsunami in Japan.
What space object caused a giant hole called the meteor crater?
A meteor.
The differfents about a volcano and a tsunami?
A tsunami is giant ocean wave usually caused by an undersea earthquake or landslide., whereas a volcano spurts out hot lava and ash.
How does a tsunami connect to a flood?
A tsunami is a giant tidal-wave - usually caused by an undersea earthquake. When it reaches land, it can cause massive flooding of coastal and low0lying areas. However - not ALL floods are caused by tsunamis.
What term describes giant waves in the ocean caused by earthquakes or volcanoes?
it is called a Tsunami
If an earthquake happens under the ocean it causes giant waves called?
These waves are called "Tsunami" Note , Earthquakes CAN cause giant waves (not all sub sea earthquakes do this). Note also that there are other causes of Tsunami.
