...Tsunami is the Japanese word for "harbor wave" and these.es ay reach devastating heights of 100...
2
ean? - as you can tha are related o coast. o disadvantages of living on the coast. _ people ha e grown up fearing tidal waves. In the past, students might rarrIed off the term "tidal wave" in a list of natural disasters including -~- es. rore fue, blizzards, and tornadoes. What many people are learning now is - a- idal ave" i a vague and general term and tha t tsunamis actually have ~ -=- g ,()do "ith tide . Tsunami is the Japanese word for "harbor wave" and these .es ay reach devastating heights of 100 feet or more. Unlike storm surges, which el re eaused bv hurricanes, tsunamis are usually caused by earthquakes in the ocean. /6 -=-:..: ave can be formed at any time, wit out warning, and have been known to li t nea . truck off the ground when B hit the coast. They move as fast as 150 to 200 _. _ per hour. One famous tsunami that wiped out the town of Hilo, Hawaii in the uznmer of 195 killing one hundred fifty-nine people, was caused by an earthquake- iggered landslide 2,500 miles away in the Aleutian lslands of Alaska. The isplacement of water from that landslide sent the tsunami rolling half way across the - Paci .... e unril it hit something that could slow[illdown. $ You only have to live in a coastal area in order to worry about tsunamis. TheJ quake that cause them occur on the sea floor, sending energy through the water -- :: reata mall seismic waves. These otherwise unremarkable waves do not grow ecome dangerous until they come m o contact with the shallow waters of -_. es, harbors, or bays. ER: PRONOUNCED "soo-NAH-mee" ome cientists have used the comparison of throwing a pebble into a still pond example of how tsunamis work;..If the pebble were a meteorite, the ripples that ::!"avel away from the point of impact would be like the energy that could create a nami in shallow coastal waters. It is also possible for island volcanoes in the pacifiTI 00 cause tsunamis near the coastlines of continents. Pacific rim volcanoes have particularly explosive eruptions and ú.hcirl ash and lava can cause landslides in the ocean that can lead to tsunamis. ~ It is impossible to tell how high a tsunami will be until it hits the shore, which hey do with little al' no warning. Although researchers have estimated that a majar tsunami anly stnkes the West Coast of the United States every 300 to 400 years, the last was estimated ta have been caused by an earthquake in the 1700's and experts say that caastal tawns in states like California are totally unprepared today and at high risk. @ Camman safet tips for dealing with tsunamis include graund or e upper staries of high rises ar even e 1m 23
Transcript of ...Tsunami is the Japanese word for "harbor wave" and these.es ay reach devastating heights of 100...
ean?
- as you can tha are related o coast.
o disadvantages of living on the coast.
_ people ha e grown up fearing tidal waves. In the past, students mightrarrIed off the term "tidal wave" in a list of natural disasters including
-~- es. rore fue, blizzards, and tornadoes. What many people are learning nowis - a- idal ave" i a vague and general term and tha t tsunamis actually have~ -=- g ,()do "ith tide . Tsunami is the Japanese word for "harbor wave" and these
.es ay reach devastating heights of 100 feet or more. Unlike storm surges, which elre eaused bv hurricanes, tsunamis are usually caused by earthquakes in the ocean. /6
-=-:..: ave can be formed at any time, wit out warning, and have been known to li tnea . truck off the ground when Bhit the coast. They move as fast as 150 to 200_. _ per hour. One famous tsunami that wiped out the town of Hilo, Hawaii in theuznmer of 195 killing one hundred fifty-nine people, was caused by an earthquake-iggered landslide 2,500 miles away in the Aleutian lslands of Alaska. Theisplacement of water from that landslide sent the tsunami rolling half way across the
- Paci ....e unril it hit something that could slow[illdown.
$ You only have to live in a coastal area in order to worry about tsunamis. TheJquake that cause them occur on the sea floor, sending energy through the water
-- :: reata mall seismic waves. These otherwise unremarkable waves do not growecome dangerous until they come m o contact with the shallow waters of
-_. es, harbors, or bays.
ER: PRONOUNCED "soo-NAH-mee"
ome cientists have used the comparison of throwing a pebble into a still pondexample of how tsunamis work;..If the pebble were a meteorite, the ripples that
::!"avel away from the point of impact would be like the energy that could create anami in shallow coastal waters. It is also possible for island volcanoes in the pacifiTI
00 cause tsunamis near the coastlines of continents. Pacific rim volcanoes haveparticularly explosive eruptions and ú.hcirl ash and lava can cause landslides in theocean that can lead to tsunamis.
~ It is impossible to tell how high a tsunami will be until it hits the shore, whichhey do with little al' no warning. Although researchers have estimated that a majar
tsunami anly stnkes the West Coast of the United States every 300 to 400 years, thelast was estimated ta have been caused by an earthquake in the 1700's and expertssay that caastal tawns in states like California are totally unprepared today and athigh risk.
@ Camman safet tips for dealing with tsunamis includegraund or e upper staries of high rises ar even e 1m
23
should not rely on roads for evacuation because highways can become flooded or getbacked up with traffic. The best way out may be on foot, Most importantly, if you're ina coastal area and you survive an earthquake, you may want to prepare for a tsunamias soon as the quake has passed. Also remember that tsunamis can occur as a series ofwaves.
@ After Hilo was hit by another tsunami in 1960, many people wentback toltheir]houses and got hit by a second wave that came six hours later. It was this secondtsunami, incidentally, that destroyed the town's power planto
Adapted [rom: hltp:/ /www.myparlo.com/en/teachers / lesso!JJ21ans/ lSIYJaeng~J..g§.12
ExercisesVocabulary.Match the following words frorn the text with their synonyms (in the box).
1. blizzard ,5'j1Á)vJ storV'r- :c S~r:'r~2. deuastating ~"tfL,..ZZ<:I/e.. 11t>~~'3. displacement M'Sloü~4. earthquake >c:.4-5yn5. eruption6. harbor7. to hit8. landslide9. la@10. to occur11. pebble12. lo rattle off1 . tide14. to trigger15. unremarhable
. 16. wipe out
-=---"--:...;:.;0:'--'-'-- __ -'-_. _
Referents.Indicate what the following words refer to in the texto
l. They (line 9) _-',7h...:....=-4L~~w:::.~____=__=G'1~ ~>'='____:___:_---__:;__----2-. it (line 14) {~ q- w~l?#- ttN.~'3. their (line 26) (~~~,¡) (~Ú
~. (line 26)'" ./ 6. their (line 40) ÍVlLkr-(3 ~
True ¡False.Indicate whether the following sentences are true or falseoF Tsunamis are extremely large tidal waves. ((l4t"\r. 1)F Earthquakes cannot be considered tsunami warnings. (ft4· ~n. I It is the lack of depth in coastal waters that give tsunamis their final power.v ft1 ~)
, Volcanoes themselves do not directly cause tsunamis. (pu..<. 3)IHilo, Hawaii was hit by two tsunamis in a three-year periodo (f ....•·' + ~)
