How Tsunamis Form
What tsunamis are commonly made from.
What are earthquakes.
This defines a local tsunami.
What is forming near the crash site.
The first known mega tsunami.
What is Vitara Bay.
The term used to show how strong an earthquake is.
What is magnitude.
The term used when water is moved out of its spot by an object which causes tsunamis.
What is displacement.
Why does displacement cause tsunamis.
What is water being pushed up and forward out of its spot causing an wave.
The type of tsunami should you evacuate from.
What is every tsunami.
The Indian Ocean Tsunami killed this many people.
What is 230,000 people.
The magnitude of an earthquake which caused the most dangerous tsunami.
What is a magnitude 9.1
The term used when tsunamis go very far out on land.
What is inundation.
What separates tsunamis underwater from regular waves.
Regular waves are only on top of the shore, which tsunamis travel on top of the shore, as well as underwater.
How fast a regional tsunami goes.
What is 62 - 621 miles.
The tallest tsunami was called this and was this tall.
What is the Lituya Bay Tsunami at 1700 feet.
The strongest magnitude ever recorded which caused a huge tsunami.
What is a magnitude 9.5 earthquake.
A tsunami that is caused by an object falling in the ocean from very high up.
What is a megatsunami
The most common way tsunamis are caused by volcanic activity.
What is a volcano collapsing.
The tsunami that travels 621 miles over land and is typically considered dangerous.
What is a distant tsunami.
The second most dangerous tsunami.
What is the Valdivia Bay Tsunami
The first magnitude 10 earthquake.
Trick question, a magnitude 10 earthquake is impossible.
The distance from wave crest (the highest part of a wave) to crest.
What is wavelength
How much less fast tsunamis go near shore then in the middle of the ocean.
What is 475 feet.
The height a mega tsunami predicted to be based on boulders very high up on a cliff.
What is 885 feet.
The tsunami which caused a level 7 nuclear meltdown.
What is the Tohoku Tsunami and Earthquake.
How big the space needed for a magnitude 10 earthquake would be.
What is extending around almost the whole earth.
A term for something extremely small which was a piece of evidence used to prove the existence of a mega tsunami.
What is a microfossil