Why are there no actual videos of any hundreds of feet high tsunamis?

Question

Any tsunami video I look at barely looks like a 20 feet wave hitting shore. But wikipedia tells me there have been dozens of 100+ feet tsunamis even in the last 10 years.

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Answer 1

Regular waves you see all the time at the beach are not really waves; they are ripples caused by the wind. A tsunami is a splash wave, like what you see and play with as a kid in a bathtub or pool. It is due to a displacement change.