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Patong Beach Tsunami VideoMaldives Tsunami Video But by far the most frequent tsunami-maker is the buckling of the seafloor caused by an undersea earthquake. Tsunami earthquakes happen at subduction zones, places where drifting plates that make up Earth's outer shell, or lithosphere, converge, and the heavier oceanic plate dips below the lighter continents. There are subduction zones off Chile, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Indonesia that have generated killer tsunamis in the past decade. In the Pacific, there were 17 tsunamis from 1992 to 1996, and they took nearly 1,700 lives.

 

Tsunami - Sri Lanka Tsunami Videohttp://www.asia ntsunamivideos.com/

 

 

As the waves in the tsunami reach shore, they slow down due to the shallowing sea floor, and the loss in speed is often accompanied by a dramatic increase in wave height. The waves scrunch together like the ribs of an accordion and heave upward. Depending on the geometry of the seafloor warping that first generated the waves, tsunami attacks can take different forms. In certain cases, the sea can seem at first to draw a breath and empty harbors, leaving fish flopping on the mud. This sometimes draws the curious to the shoreline and to their deaths, since the withdrawing of the sea is inevitably followed by the arrival of the crest of a tsunami wave. Tsunamis also flood in suddenly without warning. Tsunami waves usually don't curve over and break, like Hawaiian surf waves. Survivors of tsunami attacks describe them as dark "walls" of water. Impelled by the mass of water behind them, the waves bulldoze onto the shore and inundate the coast, snapping trees like twigs, toppling stone walls and lighthouses, and smashing houses and buildings into kindling.  

 

A tsunami can be generated when the plate boundaries abruptly deform and vertically displace the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the Earth's crust can occur at plate boundaries. Subduction earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunami. Also, one tsunami in the 1940's in Hilo, Hawaii, was actually caused by an earthquake on one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. That earthquake was 7.8 on the Richter Scale.

Tsunami take place when a huge earthquake occurs causing the plates below the water to push up causing the water to create a huge wave.

 A tsunami only occurs when a earthquake,seaquake,or volcanic activity occurs.But a tsunami can only be created if those things occur.

Koh Lanta, Thailand Tsunami Videohttp://en,wikipedia,org/wiki]tsunamis    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savgearth/tsunami/index.htm.

 

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