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Huge earthquake-caused waves are called tsunami in Japanese.
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Why do you think English speakers use a Japanese word to name the huge waves caused by earthquakes?
The Japanese studied them the most.
What is it called when an underwater earthquakes can cause huge ocean waves?
It's called a tsunami
Most surface waves are caused by?
Most surface waves are caused by wind. Tsunamis are formed by heat and circular wind motions. Tidal waves are caused by hurricanes with huge wind currents.
What are strong shaking movement of the Earths curst called?
These are called earthquakes, they are caused by two huge rock plates in the earth which crash into each other.
What is the name given to the huge waves that follow an earthquake?
Tsumanis or Tidal waves
What causes huge waves to slam into japans coastal towns?
Tsunami are caused by earthquakes.
Why do you think English speakers use a Japanese word to name the huge waves caused by earthquakes?
The Japanese studied them the most.
What are the huge waves that can develop from undersea earthquakes?
tsunami
What is it called when an underwater earthquakes can cause huge ocean waves?
It's called a tsunami
Earthquakes that originate beneath the ocean floor produce huge tidal waves called .?
tsunami
Most surface waves are caused by?
Most surface waves are caused by wind. Tsunamis are formed by heat and circular wind motions. Tidal waves are caused by hurricanes with huge wind currents.
Some more material on causes of earthquakes?
Earthquakes are caused when huge pressures deep in the Earth cause rocks to shift or break.
What caused death and destruction on the islands around mount tambora?
huge tidal waves caused by the eruption
What is a huge sea wave caused by an earthquake or a volcanic eruption called?
The large sea wave initiated by an earhquake, volcanic eruption or even a meteorite is called a Tsunami
What causes tsunamis floods?
No. Tsunamis are classified as huge tidal waves. Tsunamis cause floods when the waves hit the shore and the water rushes inland.
What is the least dangerous natural disaster why?
tsunami because the sun is very hot in the summer and this is when the seas stir up an huge waves are form and they are about thousands of kilometers high and the waves are rough
What is the another name for tidal wave?
Another name for tsunami is tidal wave. They are both huge waves caused by earthquakes. Also, both their sizes depend on where the earthquake's epicenter and focus is. So, they are exactly the same thing.
