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In the past 100 years we have had nearly over 200 tsunamis have been recorded (only ones that caused some damage). Japan has suffered a majority of them.

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No. To be used as a power source something must be consistent and predictable over a long period of time. Tsunamis are neither. With respect to human life tsunamis are random occurrences. Predictions of where a tsunami will impacts cannot be made until it has been triggered, giving us at most a few hours to prepare. Tsunamis are also fairly rare. Setting up a system to be powered by something that will not even occur most years would not be cost-effective.


How many times have a tsunamis happen?

Over the last century we've had about 10 tsunami per year, about one or two per year causing significant damage and/or loss of life. Given that the earth's oceans are around four billion years old we could assume that with the earth's current geological/oceanographic state there could have been around 40 billion tsunami over the history of the planet, although an earlier earth was more geologically active and early oceans were shallower (as well as much hotter in a denser atmosphere) meaning tsunami may have been much more common billions of years ago than they are now.