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TSUNAMI



INTRODUCTION

A Tsunami also known as a seismic sea wave, is a

series of water waves caused by the displacementof a large volume of a body of water, generally anocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcaniceruptions and other underwater explosions

(including detonations of underwater nucleardevices), landslides, glacier calving , meteoriteimpacts and other disturbances above or belowwater all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, atsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidlyrising tide, and for this reason they are often

referred to as tidal waves.



Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves withperiods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train".[4] Wave heights of tens of metrescan be generated by large events. Although the impact

of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructivepower can be enormous and they can affect entireocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami wasamong the deadliest and most published natural

disasters in human history with at least 290,000people, including tourists from all over the world killedor missing in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.The 1908 Messina earthquake and tsunami took about123,000 [5] lives on in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italybut went much less in the public discussion. Thedifference in attention economy is generally not basedon the amount of victims, but in the stability and statusof the specific survivor population and its culture of

remembrance of a certain disaster.



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TYMOLOGY

Tsunamis are sometimes referred to as tidal waves, which areunusually high sea waves that are triggered especially by

earthquakes. In recent years, this term has fallen out offavour, especially in the scientific community, becausetsunami actually has nothing to do with tides. The once-popular term derives from their most common appearance,

which is that of an extraordinarily high tidal bore. Tsunamiand tides both produce waves of water that move inland, butin the case of tsunami the inland movement of water may bemuch greater, giving the impression of an incredibly high tide.

Although the meanings of "tidal" include "resembling" or"having the form or character of" the tides, and the termtsunami is no more accurate because tsunami are not limitedto harbours, use of the term tidal wave is discouraged bygeologists and oceanographers.



There are only a few other languages that have an

equivalent native word. In Acehnese language, the

words are ië beuna[12] or alôn buluëk[13]

(depending on the dialect). In Tamil language, it is

aazhi peralai. On Simeulue island, off the western

coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, in Devayan languagethe word is smong, while in Sigulai language it is

emong.[14] In Singkil (in Aceh province) and

surrounding, the people name tsunami with wordgloro.



HISTORYWhile Japan may have the longest recorded history of

tsunamis, the sheer destruction caused by the 2004 Indian

Ocean earthquake and tsunami event mark it as the mostdevastating of its kind in modern times, killing around230,000 people. The Sumatran region is not unused totsunamis either, with earthquakes of varying magnitudesregularly occurring off the coast of the island.

Tsunamis are an often underestimated hazard in theMediterranean Sea region and Europe in general. Of historicaland current (with regard to risk assumptions) importance aree.g. the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami (which was

caused by the Azores –Gibraltar Transform Fault), the 1783Calabria earthquakes, each causing several ten thousanddeaths and the 1908 Messina earthquake and tsunami. Thelatter took more than 123,000 lives in Sicily and Calabria andis among the most deadly natural disasters in modern Europe.



The “Storegga” Slide in the Norwegian Sea and some

examples of Tsunamis affecting the British Isles refer tolandslide and meteor tsunamis predominately and less toearth quake induced waves. Tsunamis cause damage by two

mechanisms: the smashing force of a wall of water travellingat high speed, and the destructive power of a large volume ofwater draining off the land and carrying a large amount ofdebris with it, even with waves that do not appear to be

large. While everyday wind waves have a wavelength of about100 metres and a height of roughly 2 metres , a tsunami inthe deep ocean has a much larger wavelength of up to 200kilometres . Such a wave travels at well over 800 kilometresper hour , but owing to the enormous wavelength the waveoscillation at any given point takes 20 or 30 minutes tocomplete a cycle and has an amplitude of only about 1 metre.This makes tsunamis difficult to detect over deep water,where ships are unable to feel their passage.



The reason for the Japanese name "harbour wave" is that sometimes a

village's fishermen would sail out, and encounter no unusual waves w

out at sea fishing, and come back to land to find their village devastate

a huge wave. As the tsunami approaches the coast and the waters bec

shallow, wave shoaling compresses the wave and its speed decreases80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). Its wavelength diminishes to less tha

kilometres and its amplitude grows enormously. Since the wave still ha

same very long period, the tsunami may take minutes to reach full hei

Except for the very largest tsunamis, the approaching wave does not bbut rather appears like a fast-moving tidal bore. Open bays and coastli

adjacent to very deep water may shape the tsunami further into a step

wave with a steep-breaking front. When the tsunami's wave peak reac

the shore, the resulting temporary rise in sea level is termed run up. R

is measured in metres above a reference sea level. A large tsunami ma

feature multiple waves arriving over a period of hours, with significant

between the wave crests. The first wave to reach the shore may not ha

the highest run up. About 80% of tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean,

they are possible wherever there are large bodies of water, including l



DRAWBACKSAll waves have a positive and negative peak, i.e. a

ridge and a trough. In the case of a propagatingwave like a tsunami, either may be the first toarrive. If the first part to arrive at shore is the ridge,a massive breaking wave or sudden flooding will be

the first effect noticed on land. However if the firstpart to arrive is a trough, a drawback will occur asthe shoreline recedes dramatically, exposingnormally submerged areas. Drawback can exceed

hundreds of metres, and people unaware of thedanger sometimes remain near the shore to satisfytheir curiosity or to collect fish from the exposed

seabed.



A typical wave period for a damaging tsunami is

about 12 minutes. This means that if the drawback

phase is the first part of the wave to arrive, the sea

will recede, with areas well below sea level exposed

after 3 minutes. During the next 6 minutes the

tsunami wave trough builds into a ridge, and during

this time the sea is filled in and destruction occurson land. During the next 6 minutes, the tsunami

wave changes from a ridge to a trough, causing

flood waters to drain and drawback to occur again.This may sweep victims and debris some distance

from land. The process repeats as the next wave

arrives.



WARNINGS AND PREDICTIONS

A tsunami cannot be precisely predicted, even if the

magnitude and location of an earthquake is known.Geologists, oceanographers, and seismologists

analyse each earthquake and based on many

factors may or may not issue a tsunami warning.However, there are some warning signs of an

impending tsunami, and automated systems can

provide warnings immediately after an earthquake

in time to save lives. One of the most successful

systems uses bottom pressure sensors, attached to

buoys, which constantly monitor the pressure of the

overlying water column.

R i i h hi h i i k i ll i



Regions with a high tsunami risk typically use tsunamiwarning systems to warn the population before the wavereaches land. On the west coast of the United States, which isprone to Pacific Ocean tsunami, warning signs indicate

evacuation routes. In Japan, the community is well-educatedabout earthquakes and tsunamis, and along the Japaneseshorelines the tsunami warning signs are reminders of thenatural hazards together with a network of warning sirens,

typically at the top of the cliff of surroundings hills. The PacificTsunami Warning System is based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Itmonitors Pacific Ocean seismic activity. A sufficiently largeearthquake magnitude and other information triggers atsunami warning. While the seduction zones around thePacific are seismically active, not all earthquakes generatetsunami. Computers assist in analysing the tsunami risk ofevery earthquake that occurs in the Pacific Ocean and theadjoining land masses.



CONCLUSIONThe Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his

late-5th century BC History of the PeloponnesianWar, that tsunamis were related to submarine

earthquakes, but the understanding of a tsunami's

nature remained slim until the 20th century and

much remains unknown. Major areas of current

research include trying to determine why some

large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while

other smaller ones do; trying to accurately forecast

the passage of tsunamis across the oceans; and also

to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with

specific shorelines.

T i f f d b h i



Tsunamis are often referred to by the inaccurateand highly misleading term tidal wave, although thephenomenon is unrelated to the tides. Tsunamis

have a small amplitude (wave height) offshore, anda very long wavelength, often hundreds ofkilometres long, whereas normal ocean waves havea wavelength of only 30 or 40 metres which is why

they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only aslight swell usually about 300 millimetres above thenormal sea surface. They grow in height when theyreach shallower water, in a wave shoaling processdescribed below. A tsunami can occur in any tidalstate and even at low tide can still inundate coastalareas.

T i ft f d t b th i t d



Tsunamis are often referred to by the inaccurate andhighly misleading term tidal wave, although thephenomenon is unrelated to the tides. Tsunamis

have a small amplitude (wave height) offshore, anda very long wavelength, often hundreds ofkilometres long, whereas normal ocean waves havea wavelength of only 30 or 40 metres which is why

they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only aslight swell usually about 300 millimetres above thenormal sea surface. They grow in height when theyreach shallower water, in a wave shoaling processdescribed below. A tsunami can occur in any tidalstate and even at low tide can still inundate coastalareas.



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