A tsunami is a monster wave, started by a magnitude-9 earthquake. It overwhelmed long stretches of coastline along the Ocean shore.
Tsunamis are like. . .We're sitting in our seaside house and we notice that the surf sounds different. We look out and see that the water has receded, as if the tide had pulled out in a hurry. The sea stays low for several minutes.
The sea rises, as quickly and quietly as it left—then it keeps on rising, higher than we've ever seen it go. The sea grows louder and outruns you, catches your ankles, knocks you down, and smashes you against trees and rocks and buildings as you drown in its muddy, turbulent flow.
The Web has a lot of sites with tsunami information. I've got a tsunami list with the best of them. But I think the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, Hawaii, is special because it has a human face and a human basis.
Besides, scientists have their own blinders. Many think of tsunamis as caused strictly by earthquakes, or underwater volcanic eruptions or seafloor landslides. They even call them "seismic sea waves." But in fact the most significant kind of tsunamis, for the geologist, are created not by quakes or any earthly process but by cosmic impacts.
Tsunamis are like. . .We're sitting in our seaside house and we notice that the surf sounds different. We look out and see that the water has receded, as if the tide had pulled out in a hurry. The sea stays low for several minutes.
The sea rises, as quickly and quietly as it left—then it keeps on rising, higher than we've ever seen it go. The sea grows louder and outruns you, catches your ankles, knocks you down, and smashes you against trees and rocks and buildings as you drown in its muddy, turbulent flow.
The Web has a lot of sites with tsunami information. I've got a tsunami list with the best of them. But I think the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, Hawaii, is special because it has a human face and a human basis.
Besides, scientists have their own blinders. Many think of tsunamis as caused strictly by earthquakes, or underwater volcanic eruptions or seafloor landslides. They even call them "seismic sea waves." But in fact the most significant kind of tsunamis, for the geologist, are created not by quakes or any earthly process but by cosmic impacts.
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