Tsunami

Have you ever seen a giant wave? Are you interested in how the massive force of nature can bring a city to ruin and rain terror upon us? How they are generated and how they roll? If this caught your attention, then this is the right place to feast your eyes on.
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Tsunami is one of the most feared, and destructive natural catastrophe which has caught peoples attentions at recent times. It's a huge mass of water that ravages everything in it's path. It is powerful enough to throw cars, trucks and even large ships around and rip trees from their roots. In the open sea a tsunami can travel awfully fast and is nearly impossible to spot with naked eyes. All this changes when tsunami approaches the coastline. Then it slows down to nearly 80 kilometres per hour and can gain height over a whopping 500 metres! Compare that to Japan's 16-metre tsunami, and you'll notice that the size of tsunamis varies a lot. The highest wave ever measured was 524 metres high. A tsunami is generated when tectonic plates crash into each other which causes a huge potential energy that is erupted in form of earthquakes and tsunamis.

We hope that this clarified your vision and purged your mind of one of the world's greatest forces of nature.

Source: Wikipedia, geology.com By:Arno, Kevin, Amelia