Large waves crash against the shore while people run for high ground. But many, just stare in wonder. What actually was going on was a tsunami. A earthquake had just struck in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Soon the waves got larger and larger before they wiped out the whole village. Tsunamis are large waves reaching over 300 ft. that wipe out it ire villages, city's, homes, and stores. Many tsunamis leave the area flooded , destroyed, and filled with sea animals such as whales, dolphins, sharks, and other things. Then, the tsunamipulls back pulling all of the debris it destroyed back into the ocean polluting the whole sea environment. Tsunamis don't just cause short term effects, they cause long term also the Japan tsunami broke a nuclear power plant releasing thousands of gallons of contamination into the Pacific Ocean killing sea life and contaminating nature. (Walker, 29) Many may know about tsunamis but not all know how they are made, and some only assume one way but there are multiple.
Some of the thing that cause tsunami are Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, undersea la...
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Earthquake: a series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating; something that is severely disruptive; upheaval (Shravan). Tsunami: an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption (Shravan). Combine these two catastrophic natural disasters, and it will be a day that will forever live in infamy through terror; a day much like that of October 28, 1746 in Lima, Peru, in which an entire city was destroyed within mere minutes. Author Charles Walker guides his audience through the devastation and wreckage of this heartbroken town and into the economic, political, religious, and social fallout that followed. Walker argues that the aftermath of this tragedy transformed into a voting of the citizens’ various ideas perceived of the future of Lima, theological consequences, and the structure of the colonial rule (p. 12).
Imagine if a 9.0 earthquake struck the West Coast today, resulting in a giant tsunami. Coastal towns would be washed away or completely isolated, and electricity would be lost (FOX5). There would be $70 billion in damage and people would only have 15 minutest to evacuate or move to higher ground resulting in 10,000 deaths (FOX5). This sounds like a plot for a scary movie, but this is actually a reality. The Oregon Coast in located on a subduction zone, which makes it very susceptible to major earthquakes and tsunamis. With the Cascadia subduction zone running along he West Coast the threat of a major tsunami is very real.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami took place on December 26th, 2004 and had a magnitude of 9.15. The cause of the Sumatra Tsunami was due to the sliding of two tectonic plates. Sumatra, an island in Indonesia, is situated on the boundary of the two plates; part of Sumatra is situated on the India/Australian plate and the other part is on the Eurasian plate. The Indian/Australian plate and Eurasian plate connect on the ocean floor at the boundary, a little over 100 miles off the short of Sumatra. Sumatra was one among the many countries that was impacted by these natural disasters. To fully understand the Sumatra Tsunami one must examine the events that led up to it, what a tsunami is, and the damage caused.
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Tsunamis can go the same speed as a jetliner and that massive wave can out run the fastest runner. When there is a lot of waves at once, or the water goes back that is a sign that a tsunami is coming. If that tsunami is far then people need to get to the tallest and strongest building there is in the city that way they are safe and helicopter can pick them up. Tsunamis can wipe out an entire city or 1/4 of the country. Tsunamis can last up to an hour, or more.
It was 2004 in Indonesia when there was a earthquake that caused a tsunami that killed the most people in history and after that Richard Lewis picked up his pen and wrote The Killing Sea. He wanted to write a book that taught people a lesson: Mother nature is an unstoppable force. Richard understood this because of how many people died from just one tsunami and that wasn’t even that bad compared to other tsunamis so he wanted to show people in a form of a book not to mess with mother nature. On page 32 the book describes how the tsunami looked. Then “On all three sides of the peninsula the whole ocean had lifted up and was racing landward.” The book was right to say what it looked like because it probably looks like the whole sea was lifting up and most tsunamis are moving over 65 mph. So it was racing unlike most movies and books exagate a tsunami it didn’t because in the videos that was what it looked like.
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Japan had been labelled as developed country and has the world's third-largest economy and the world's fourth-largest economy buying power. However, this developed country had faced numerous number of catastrophic event mainly tsunami. Tsunami is derived from the word ‘Tsu’ means harbor and ‘nami’ means wave. It was first known in 1897. Tsunami is a great sea wave produced cause by the submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption (NEAMTIC-North-Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Tsunami Information Centre). This terrifying event had taken away the lives of almost 200,000 innocent citizens around the world. On 10 February 2014, in Japan, it is
While the early warning saved thousands of people, the Japan’s Meteorological Agency underestimated this earthquake as the subduction zone of Japan should not produce the magnitude 9.0 quake (Oskin, 2013a). The Tohoku Earthquake and its tsunami approximately killed 16 thousand people, injured 6 thousand people and around 3 thousand people were missing. Most people died from drowning. Around 300 thousand buildings, 4000 roads, 78 bridges, and many more were affected by the earthquake, tsunami, and fires from leaking oils and gas. Electricity, telecommunication, and railways were severely damaged. The debris of 25 million tons was generated and carried out to the sea by water (BBC News, 2012). The country’s authorities estimated more than 309 billion US dollars of damages. Landslides occurred in Miyagi and liquefaction in Chiba, Tokyo, Odaiba, and Urayasu (USGS, 2013). Furthermore, the tsunami destroyed protective tsunami seawalls. Approximately 217 square miles of Japan covered in water (Oskin,
There was a multitude of causes of the disaster in Japan. The first cause was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred off the coast of Japan. Japan is located in “The Ring of Fire,” an area in the Pacific Ocean that has multiple faults and earthquakes (Pedersen 13). Tectonic plates shifted off the North Pacific coast of Japan and created a massive earthquake. The next cause was a thirty-three foot wall of water that swept over cities and farmland in Japan (Branigan 2). Martin Fackler, a journalist, stated, “The quake churned up a devastating tsunami” (Fackler 3). The tsunami reached speeds of 497 miles per hour while approaching Japan (Fackler 3). The third and final reason of the disaster was that the cooling systems at multiple nuclear power plants failed. At Fukushima, a nuclear power plant in Sendai, Japan, the radioactive rods began to overheat due to the absence of water, which cools it. Explosions occurred at three of the reactors, which spewed radiation into the air (“Comparing nuclear power plant crises”). In conclusion, the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant issues were the causes of the disaster in Japan, but they also had a myriad of effects.
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What do you think of when you hear the word waves? Many people think of the waves of the ocean and those are harmless, but there are some waves that can be harmful towards us. When there is an earthquake, it releases energy which shakes the Earth. The energy released from the earthquake is called a seismic wave. It’s called a seismic wave because the Greek word seismos, means earthquake. There are two different types of seismic waves produced when an earthquake occurs which are body waves and surface waves. There are two different types of body waves, called primary waves (longitudinal wave) and secondary waves (transverse wave). The surface wave moves in a vertical and horizontal direction, in a rolling motion, and travels below and along the ground’s surface. When there is an earthquake the primary wave is produced first, then the secondary wave and lastly the surface wave. The wave that causes the most destruction is the surface wave. These types of seismic waves can cause a bunch of damage to surrounding structures. In the year 1906 in San Francisco, California there was an earthquake. An eyewitness of the event, Police Lieutenant H.N. Powel said,