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Map of Earthquake Locations
Map of Earthquake Locations
A Body is being retrieved after few days of ordeal at Nagapattinam on January 02, 2005
An All Party Meeting to discuss Relief and Rehabilitations Measures of Tsunami Tragedy held in New Delhi on
January 9, 2005
A massive tsunami, generated by a powerful undersea earthquake, engulfing a residential area in Natori, Miyagi
prefecture, northeastern Honshu, Japan, on March 11, 2011.Kyodo/AP
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the 2004 tsunamiPhotos taken before and after the arrival of a massive
tsunami highlight the destruction of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004. The tsunami was generated by
a magnitude-9.1 earthquake that occurred only 30 metres (98 feet) beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean.NASA
tsunamiAfter being generated by an undersea earthquake or landslide, a tsunami may propagate unnoticed over
vast reaches of open ocean before cresting in shallow water and inundating a coastline.Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
An illustration of the rhythmic "drawback" of surface water associated with a wave. It follows that a very large
drawback may herald the arrival of a very large wave.
When the wave enters shallow water, it slows down and its amplitude (height) increases.
The wave further slows and amplifies as it hits land. Only the largest waves crest.