Is it possible to know when Tsunamis will occur? And how often will they occur?
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No.Tsunamis occur usally after there is an earthquake of a 7.0 maginitude under the ocean, for most tsunamis to occur the fault or the earthquake has to be under water and has to go up a reasonable mount of feet. Then it sends a wave which passes through a boey system and then that notifiys a the people on land.\nSince earthquakes are impossible to predict Tsunamis are too and that points also how often they occur. Not all earthquakes cause tsunamis, and if you heard of land one, it is most probaly it caused a underwater land slide or an out of water land slide which then crashes into the sea depending how big it is it will make anything to 1,000 foot wave.
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its tsunami, and there would not be a western european tsunami, but i would guess that cork, in irealnd would be hit first, but the netherlans would sink because it is below sea level. i would then saw rotterdam, amsterdam, or the hauge then.
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A tsunami (pronounced soo-nah-mee or tsoo-nah-mee [ IPA /suˈnɑːmi/ or /tsuˈnɑːmi/]) is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions and large meteorite impacts all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating.\n\nThe term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu", 津) and wave ("nami", 波 or 浪). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural, in English tsunamis is well-established as the plural. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the area surrounding the harbour devastated, although they had not been aware of any wave in the open water. A tsunami is not a sub-surface event in the deep ocean; it simply has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore, and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean.\n\nTsunamis have been historically referred to as tidal waves because as they approach land they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing tide rather than the sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). However, since they are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by oceanographers.\n\nFor more information on a tsunami, visit:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
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Tsunamis are caused by an underwater earthquake, a volcanic eruption, an sub-marine rockslide, or, more rarely, by an asteroid or meteoroid crashing into in the water from space. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but not all underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis - an earthquake has to be over about magnitude 6.75 on the Richter scale for it to cause a tsunami. About 90 percent of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean.
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Because tsunamis don't create a large wave in deep water within a large body of water. In the open ocean a tsunami wave may only be one meter tall.  Large waves form when a traveling wave enters shallow water. The wave length of a tsunami wave is extremely long. When the wave approaches a shoreline it meets resistance and as the wavelength shortens the wave height increases.
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Yes.  Any coastline has a chance of getting hit with a tsunami because the waves are created by underwater displacement and can be propagated around the world.
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Earthquakes happen every day around the world.  I'm sure there is a likely hood of an earthquake happening on June 20.  If someone is really into those predictions, they will re-interpretate the prediction after the fact to mean some other location or bla bla blah.
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The last years Tsunami was cause by the 2 plates breaking underneath the Phi Phi islands @ 8 15am. It caused the ground to rise up to 40 feet for 750 miles, which cause an earthquake of 9.5 on the scale. They are predicting that the next country to be hit with a Tsunami is Samaliya. And US is next... Oregon, Washington and all NW states, BEWARE. \nAMERICA'S TSUNAMI, ARE WE NEXT? When they cannot predict, however, they say it might be in the next 1000 years or it might happen tommorow.\nThe funny thing is that they said the break in the plates occured in the Indian ocean. They first checked for landslides, found none, no proof that any has occured in the last 10 years.
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Can someone help me with my precalculus problem? Can you please read the following problem and figure out the?\n\nCan someone help me with my precalculus problem? Can you please read the following problem and figure out the equation for me along with how you figure this out?\n\n\nA tsunami (commonly called a “tidal wave” because of its effect is like a rapid change in tide) is a fast moving ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake. The water first goes down from its normal level then rises at an equal distance about its normal level, and finally returns to its normal level, the period is about 15 minutes.\n\nSuppose that a tsunami with an amplitude of 10 meters approaches pier Honolulu, where the normal depth of water is 9 meters.
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Explanation of tsunamis would be interesting. More specific the tsunami alert system of the Pacific ocean involving mainly USA and Japan.
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A tsunami is a series of waves generated when a body of water, such as a lake or ocean is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions and large meteorite impacts all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating.\n\nThe term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu") and wave ("nami"). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural, in English tsunamis is well-established as the plural. The term was created by fishermen although they had not been aware of any wave in the open water. A tsunami is not a sub-surface event in the deep ocean; it simply has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore, and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean.\n\nTsunamis have been historically referred to as tidal waves because as they approach land they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing tide rather than the sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). However, since they are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its
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There are literally hundreds of earthquakes every day.  Thankfully most are small.\n\nSome faults are well documented and a loose prediction that they will slip sometime in the near to middle future can be made but with very little accuracy.
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All waves are tidal waves. I think you're asking about tsunamis, and those can happen anywhere on a coast, but are probably not likely in Connecticut.
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It depends on what you define as an earthquake. A large earthquake that excites the earth's free oscillations will produce detectable ringing for many hours.
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The great earthquake (Mw 9.0) of December 26 off Sumatra generated the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. According to U.S.G.S., the aftershocks extended as far as 1,000 km toward north (the red circles indicate aftershocks occurred within 24 hours). Assuming that the aftershock area represents the tsunami source, the tsunami propagation was computed.
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The scientists are saying that a "big one" is going to happen. It's not a question of "if", its "when." And they don't know when, it is still, unfortuneatley, impossible to predict earthquakes. They have specials on this topic on the Discovery Channel, so check out your local listings so you can see. I think there's even a movie. Anyways, there is also a huge fault by Washington.
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a tsunami is caused by an earthquake deep in the ocean, and a hurricane is like a big tornato, thus meaning when hot and cold air meet, they swirl over the ocean and make a hurricane. \nhope i was of help!\nHappy Holidays, -creaive:)