fc

• Click to edit Master text styles

– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level

• dac
 WHAT TSUNAMI IS?

Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning ‘harbor wave’. It is constituted

• Click to edit Master text styles
with two syllables, Japanese language meaning harbor ("tsu“), and
– Second level
wave ("nami"). • Third level
– Fourth level
 It is generated in a body oflevel
» Fifth water by a pulsating or abrupt
disturbance that vertically displaces the water column.

 Tsunami's often resemble a tide that keeps rising, rather than

cresting waves when they reach shore.

Earthquake, landslides, volcanic eruption, and meteorites commonly

generate tsunami.
 CHARACTERISTICS

Move at• Click

highto edit Master text styles
speeds
Can travel– Second
enormouslevel distances with little
• Third level
energy loss – Fourth level

Can cause damage » Fifth level

thousands of miles from its
origin
May be several hours between its creation and
its impact on the coast
 • Click to edit Master text styles
– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level

The waves of Tsunami

 Tsunamis take place
when:
Seafloor quickly
• Click to edit Master text styles
changes shape
– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
Water is displaced
» Fifth level
Waves are formed
as the displaced
water mass, which is
affected gravity, tries
to move back
Anthony Liekens 15:30, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Click to edit Master text styles
– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
 Effects of Tsunamis

• Click to edit Master text styles

• Destruction
– Second level life.
of human
• Third level
• Destruction of property.
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
• Spread of disease.

• Destruction of ecosystems.

• Destruction of their groundwater supply.

THE BIGGEST TSUNAMIES EVER
5. Krakatau, 1883
• Killed:
 Click 36,000
to edit Master text styles
– Second level
4. Tsunami in the South
• Third level China Sea, 1782 ,
 Killed: Over 40,000
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
3. Great earthquake at Lisbon, 1755
 Killed: 60,000

2. The eruption, which destroyed the Minoan civilization, Ancient

Greece ,
 Killed: 100,000 or more

1. Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 ,

 Killed: Approximately 2,26,000
 2004 Indian Ocean
Earthquake
• Click to edit Master text styles
– Second level •Undersea earthquake
• Third level
– Fourth level •Magnitude 9.0
» Fifth level

(Moment magnitude scale)

NOAA
Epicenter 150 KM west of Sumatra

• Click to edit Master text styles

– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
 Map of tectonic plates where the
earthquake triggered the tsunami
• Click to edit Master text styles
– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
 TSUNAMI IN JAPAN 2011

• Click to edit Master text styles

– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
 Warning Systems

 Many countries
• Click to editaround
Masterthe text styles
Pacific, including Hawaii,
– Second level
have warning systems and
• Third level
evacuation procedures
– Fourth level in the
event of a serious» Fifth
tsunami.
level

 A tsunami cannot be
precisely predicted, even if
the magnitude and location
of an earthquake is known.
 Whirlpool in Japan

• Click to edit Master text styles

– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level
• Click to edit Master text styles
– Second level
• Third level
– Fourth level
» Fifth level

by