They can, and they do, but because the Pacific "Ring of Fire" bypasses Australia some distance away, to date there have been no significant tsunamis that have hit. Australia is bordered by tectonic plate boundaries in the northwest, northeast and east, where tectonic activity could generate tsunamis capable of hitting Australia within 2-4 hours. For example, if an earthquake were to hit New Zealand's Alpine Fault and its epicentre was located in the ocean, the resulting tsunami could travel across the Tasman and hit Australia's east coast with some considerable force.
Australia has been relatively free of major damaging tsunamis. The largest tsunami to hit Australia occurred on the northwestern coast at Cape Leveque in August 1977. This tsunami was 6m in height, but no one was killed. However, recent research has indicated that, in the past 130 years, the continent has experienced 145 tsunamis, resulting in 11 deaths. 85 percent of these have been along the eastern coast.
Perhaps the second-largest tsunami to hit Australia's shores was one which hit in June 1994. Again, the northwest coast was hit, including Broome, King Bay, Onslow and Carnarvon. In some coastal areas, fish and other ocean creatures were carried inland for 300 metres. Whilst no people died in Australia, this same tsunami killed 200 people just four hours earlier in Java.
Na were fine but a lover of January issue tsunami
Ohio will never be hit by a tsunami. Unless there is a powerful wave like that (which there isn't) you have nothing to worry about.
It is highly unlikely for a tsunami to hit Arizona as the state is landlocked and far from any major bodies of water. Tsunamis are typically caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides near coastlines. Arizona does not have any of these geological features that would trigger a tsunami.
Tsunamis don't get real names as hurricanes and typhoons do. It is often refereed to as the Boxing Day tsunami or the Indian Ocean tsunami.
It is impossible to predict when a tsunami will happen until it is triggered.
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Na were fine but a lover of January issue tsunami
I very much doubt it, but they do have a deluge of fans where ever they go.
It's 600 miles from the coast!!
yes, mutliple times, including the day this question was answered. sometime the morning a 8.9 earthqauke triggered a tsunami.
The tsunami hit because of the earthquake shifted the ground and caused the tsunami.
Ohio will never be hit by a tsunami. Unless there is a powerful wave like that (which there isn't) you have nothing to worry about.
Queensland
the tsunami hit in Lituya Bay, Alaska
The tsunami hit Japan's northeastern islands.
New South Wales have never been hit by a tsunami of any significance, for as long as Europeans have been settled on the continent.