A Tsunami is generated by an underwater earthquake.
No because the New Madrid quakes occurred far inland, so therefore no tsunami was generated by the plate tectonics under a large body of water as is the mechanism for most earthquake-generated tsunamis. However, the New Madrid fault earthquake did cause the Mississippi river to flow backwards.
its called a tsunami
The people who were affected in the Japanese tsunami was the prime minister because its his country and of course the people who was trapped in the tsunami.
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.
The Tsunami was created by an underwater earthquake/volcano.
The Thailand tsunami was generated by a major earthquake in the sea.
It is a tsunami.
A Tsunami?
when there is a earthquake or landslide underwater
when there is a earthquake or landslide underwater
Tsunami
Sometimes a tsunami is generated.
Probably "tsunami" misspelled. A tsunami is an ocean wave generated by a submarine earthquake, volcano or landslide.
Any coastal port/ city (as well as some inland ones), are always vulnerable to a tsunami. While tsunamis which are generated by earthquakes are the most common (and these are in now well defined zones), not all tsunamis are generated by them. Tsunami can also be generated by under sea landslides or meteorite impacts.
Ocean Village is about 500 miles from a subduction zone which has the potential of producing a tsunami generating earthquake. What is the maximum amount of warning time the village can expect if a tsunami is generated at that subduction zone?
A tsunami.
Hi, Paste this link into your browser on how tsunamis are detected: http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/categories.php?category_no=140 It is on the International Tsunami Information Center site. !