Tsunamis

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Benny V

 

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April 18, 2014

 

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On December 26, the two plates slipped past each other, causing a 600 mile-long rupture of the seabed. The rupture displaced the seafloor about 10 yards horizontally, and several yards vertically. The resulting displacement of trillions of tons of water is what actually caused the huge waves. The earthquake, whose epicenter was about 150 miles off the Western coast of Sumatra, was one of the largest in recorded history; an astonishing 9...
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The quake was estimated to have released the equivalent of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs?. Since the quake occurred 150 miles away from any landmass, little or no damage resulted from the actual earthquake, although people as far away as Thailand we wakened from their sleep . A tsunami is formed by a displacement of water, either from a landslide, volcanic eruption, or as in this case, the slippage of two tectonic plates against each other...
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