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A tsunami is a series of large water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume within a body of water, often caused by earthquakes, or similar events. This may occur in lakes as well as oceans, presenting threats to both fishermen and shoreside inhabitants.
A tsunami advisory in the Bay Area region occurred after the Hunga Tonga volcano erupted causing a tsunami and deadly waves that killed four people and injured others on the island of Tonga in ...
According to the University of the West Indies, experts are only aware of ten significant earthquake-generated tsunamis that have occurred over the past 500 years. Caribbean tsunami alerts from 2 ...
A 2021 map shows the impact of a tsunami hitting the San Fransisco area - and the devastation it could cause. The map was thrust back into the spotlight Thursday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
A rockslide and debris avalanche slid 550 metres (1,804 ft) down the side of Mount Orrock on the western shore of Chehalis Lake into the 175-metre (574 ft) deep lake, generating a tsunami with a run-up height of 37.8 metres (124 ft) on the opposite shore and 6.3 metres (21 ft) at the lake's exit point, 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) away to the south.
The earthquake was the second of a sequence of five shocks that shook Calabria between 5 February and 28 March 1783. The citizens of Scilla spent the night after the first earthquake on the beach, where they were washed away by the tsunami, causing 1,500 deaths. The tsunami was caused by the collapse of Monte Paci into the sea, near the city.
Meteotsunamis are storm-generated wave events that can quickly flood Great Lakes shorelines. Roughly 100 occur each year. A tsunami-like event hit Lake Michigan this week, across from Racine.
Although National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii eventually issued warnings of a possible tsunami from the large earthquake off Sumatra, the waves outran notification systems at jet speeds of 500 mph (804 km/h), catching hundreds of thousands of people unaware.