Tsunamis

Tsunami Facts

• A Tsunami is a sudden displacement of water.
• Heights can reach over 100 ft
• Speeds about 600 mph

Most Common Places

80% of tsunamis happen in the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire"

Tsunami Prevention

• No way to stop a tsunami once in motion
• Billions spent on building sea walls
• Not 100% safe
• Computer simulated tsunamis

Tsunami Detection

• Seisometer
• 1948- 75% false alarms
• Bottom sensors
• Cabled and satellite

safety tips

• Have evacuation route
• Know warning signs
• Don't go back to coastal area until authorities say it's safe

2004 TSUNAMI of the indian ocean

• December 26, 2004
• 9.1 magnitude earthquake
• 50 meters tall
• most widely recorded
• energy of 23,000 atomic bombs

2004 tsunami

• seafloor shifted
• moved trillions of tons of rocks
• 18 countries
• traveled 375 miles in 75 minutes
• moved at 300 mph

2004 tsunami

• no tsunami warnings
• animals ran for high ground before
• few animal bodies found
• $10 billion of damage
• 230,000 reported dead

2004 tsunami

• 500,000 injuries
• 5 million lost homes
• Indonesia: 167,736 deaths and 37,063 missing

2004 tsunami

• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5wBdC0Ws0

levels of tsunami intensity

• level 1- not felt
• level 2- scarcely felt
• level 3- weak
• level 4- largely observed
• level 5- strong

levels

• level 6- slightly damaging
• level 7- damaging
• level 8- heavily damaging
• level 9- destructive
• level 10- very destructive

levels

• level 11- devastating
• level 12- completely devastating

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