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Tsunami

The term of “tsunami” comes from the Japanese which means harbour ("tsu") and wave
("nami"). A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or a sea is rapidly
displaced on a massive scale.
A tsunami will be generated when the seafloor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the
overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust can occur at plate boundaries.
Subduction of earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunami, and occur where
denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates.
As the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity to regain its equilibrium, it
radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.
Tsunami always bring great damage. Most of the damage is caused by the huge mass of water
behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast and floods powerfully into
the coastal area.
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Haunted House

One day I went to a haunted house at the one of tourism place at my city. Of course it was not a
real haunted house, but only a creation of a room with horror atmosphere.

That haunted house always made me curious to go inside and see because many people was
screaming when entering it.

I decided to buy the ticket and see inside. I wanted to feel the horror.

The room was dark, only using a few thematic lighting focused in specific spots which the ghost
properties were displayed. The room was also divided into 4 parts with different theme of horror.

Every visitor would be entering all parts to find the exit and no one can be out of that room
except by passing through the exit door.

At the first-third part of that room I only saw any kinds of scary display using the theme of ghost,
there were some fake ghost made form dolls, fake cemeteries and some old furniture which made
us imagine about the ghost.

At the last part of that room there were a lot of actors who wore any kinds of ghost costume and
make up. They were moving around and shocked the visitor. This part was the best one that
impressed people about the fear of the haunted house.
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“Komodo Dragon"

Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the scrub
and woodland of a few Indonesian islands.

Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest
Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds
(166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and
200 pounds (91 kg).

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They
use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away.
They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.

The Komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds,
the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the
Komodo dragon’s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon
will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.

This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.