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    A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, typically from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or other disturbances below or above water. Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves as they have much longer wavelengths, sometimes appearing as a rapidly rising tide. Tsunami waves can have heights of tens of meters and affect entire ocean basins. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused a devastating tsunami that killed over 230,000 people across fourteen countries due to waves as high as 30 meters. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

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    A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, typically from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or other disturbances below or above water. Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves as they have much longer wavelengths, sometimes appearing as a rapidly rising tide. Tsunami waves can have heights of tens of meters and affect entire ocean basins. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused a devastating tsunami that killed over 230,000 people across fourteen countries due to waves as high as 30 meters. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

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    A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, typically from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or other disturbances below or above water. Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves as they have much longer wavelengths, sometimes appearing as a rapidly rising tide. Tsunami waves can have heights of tens of meters and affect entire ocean basins. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused a devastating tsunami that killed over 230,000 people across fourteen countries due to waves as high as 30 meters. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

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    soo-NAH - Mee Tsoo - NAH - Mee (2) : Tsunami

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    TSUNAMI:

    A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: , lit. "harbour wave";[1] English pronunciation: /sunmi/ soo-NAH-mee or /tsunmi/ tsoo-NAH-mee[2]) is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.[3] Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves. Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train".[4] Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230,000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean. The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in 426 BC that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes,[5][6] but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown[clarify]. Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines. TSUNAMI IN INDIA(2004): The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the SumatraAndaman earthquake.[4][5] The resulting tsunami was given various names, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, South Asian tsunami, Indonesian tsunami, and the Boxing Day tsunami. The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (98 ft) high.[6] It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. With a magnitude of Mw 9.19.3, it is the third largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. The earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 centimetre (0.4 inches)[7] and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska.[8] Its epicentre was between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia.[9] The plight of the affected people and countries prompted a worldwide humanitarian response. In all, the worldwide community donated more than $14 billion (2004 US$) in humanitarian aid.[10]

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