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Tsunami
T-tsunami, is Japanese term tsunami 津波, word that means “harbour waves”. It is a series of
waves in the oceans and seas seems as high volume waves reaching in the heights to the
seashore, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), on top of land, and
destroying the surroundings (Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku, Satake, Tsuji, Ueda, &
Yamaguchi, 2016).
Scientific Reason behind Tsunami
Curst, core and mental are layers of the inner earth, they keep making motions inside. These
motions cause some seismic wave’s causing the earthquakes, tectonic plate movements, and
undersea volcanic eruptions. These waves never appear suddenly but they keep moving
below the water on crust. They travel inland, and create higher and higher tides in the water
at the depth of the oceans. Pacific ocean is the highest risky ocean that experience maximum
numbers of ocean tsunami, it has a “Ring of Fire” a geologically active area having volcanoes
and earthquakes common.
Negative impact
Sometimes tsunami waves got high and reach to the land causing damages to the in many
form, as loss to lives, properties in coastal areas. Very high tsunamis can cause
destruction to coastal areas thousands of miles away from the earthquake that caused them.
Everything in the surroundings face destruction in many forms, it leads a high cost to the
people and government to rebuild the entire coastal area and loss to the lives is impossible to
recover (Park, Cox, & Barbosa, 2017).
Challenges
Tsunami causes many challenges to the people, others creatures, government, and economy
of the country. The sound effects of the tsunami on the nation state throughout this duration
series from damage and destruction, injury, death, load of amount in economic loss, and
lifelong psychosomatic problems for the populations of the area.
Examples
In the year 2011, on March 11 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean, near
the northeast coast of the Tōhoku region of Japan’s Honshu island, caused massive tsunami

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