Tsunamis explained 5 Articles

by Bill Edwards

They are born at the bottom of the ocean, spawned by geological disturbances. They race toward land with the speed of a passenger jet, seemingly small and barely noticeable to ships or anyone else far out at sea. ...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

The word "tsunami" comes from Japanese language and means "wave of the harbour", given that in the highly seismic Japan, these kind of waves were particularly evident in the harbours. The most frequent...read more

by Science Steward

We live on a small planet barely 93 million miles from a small yet fiercely hot star in a small corner of the Milky Way Galaxy. This planet of ours has an unstable and sometimes lethally violent atmosphere capable of whip...read more

by William Prest

A sudden catastrophic change introduced into the seafloor is enough to generate a mega-wave that can have dramatic and tragic consequences thousands of miles away or half way around the world. A tectonic shift or drop; a s...read more

by Anita Rogers

Physics of Tsunamis Tsunami a Japanese word meaning Harbor Wave" is so called because the effects of a tsunami wave is most felt on the coast, whereas in deep waters it passes of as a huge swell. It is erroneous...read more