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Type in the content of your page here. Tsunami Description: A tsunami is a seismic sea wave. It is most likely to drown or if you’re very lucky you will get injuries. It goes 500 to 800kph and up to 100 feet high. The word Tsunami came from Japanese. It causes big flooding. harbour wave tsu = harbour nami = wave.



What causes a Tsunami? A tsunami is sometimes caused by earthquakes, seismic activity, submarine landslides, and cosmic impacts, under water volcano or meteors hitting the ocean.

The effect that a Tsunami has on people, communities and the environment: A Tsunami causes damage to buildings animals and plants. It destroys everything in its path. Drowns family’s people and causes massive floods from a long way.

How is a Tsunami forecasted? A Tsunami is forecasted after an earthquake, when water gets sucked out, listen to a radio or the news. But they invented a PTWC monitor. It tells when a Tsunami is coming this way.



What preventive measures can people take against a Tsunami? You can build a humongous wall get to higher ground or avacuate.

Interesting facts on a Tsunami:  1. Tsunamis can go as fast as 500 to 800 kph  2. You cannot stop a Tsunami from coming