How to Make a Tsunami Disappear

Here are some things I gathered on how to make a tsunami disappear. One thing I learned was you can’t stop a tsunami no matter how big, small, or powerful it is. A bigger tsunami that hit was in Japan on March 11, 2011. But the biggest tsunami to ever happen started on December 26, 2004. It hit the island of sumatra, indonesia. Tsunami’s strike at least ten times every year in the coastal regions. The first tsunami that hit in 2018 was on April 6 after an earthquake shook the undersea floor in the Solomon islands.

The quake formed a tsunami which went toward the island and ended up killing at least five people and injuring many more. The water races up to about 800 kilometer’s (500 miles) per hour which is also as fast as a jet plan.

Eventually, the waves reach the shallow parts of the ocean waters. Then the waves start to slow down and swell, sometimes it can be as high as a 10-story building. When the waves crash onto land they can flud hundreds of kilometers of shore line. They might break tree branches, ruin houses, or sweep up cars from the street. Most of the time you can’t move everyone quickly out of the way of a tsunami, it is usually too big for everyone to hide from. An undersea earthquake is caused because of the earth’s crust shifting huge bodies of water at a time causing big and strong waves. The ocean isn’t the only place that large waves can hit.

A wave known as a seiche can hit a smaller body of water, for example a lake.  A seiche is more like a wave in the bath tub when you move around. It can be formed if the wind hits a smaller body of water for a long time. The water from a seiche piles up on shore. When it stops it goes back in the water (and up again) like a wave but bigger. Though seiche’s are smaller than tsunamis, they can still cause death or serious injury. Those are a couple things I learned about tsunamis and “How To Make A Tsunami Disappear”.

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