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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Because the waves don’t reach hundreds of feet when they approach the shore. The increased drag from the bottom of the ocean slows down the wave, while the top of the wave doesn’t experience that drag. This mismatch in speed causes the wave to collapse as it approaches the shore.
Probably for the same reason there aren’t many survivors. It’s extremely destructive, and in the off chance a camera had been positioned in the exact place to catch it at the right time chances are it won’t survive either.
Probably for the same reason there aren’t many survivors. It’s extremely destructive, and in the off chance a camera had been positioned in the exact place to catch it at the right time chances are it won’t survive either.
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.
I think reasonable people would be too busy trying to get to safety rather than to film impending doom coming at them. And if they did, the chances of a device surviving all that water and impact are slim.
I think reasonable people would be too busy trying to get to safety rather than to film impending doom coming at them. And if they did, the chances of a device surviving all that water and impact are slim.
Because tsunamis are not the same in the movies as they are in real life,
Google ‘Japan tsunami’
It shows what it looks like on first impact, it just looks like water that rises and rises,
It isn’t some massive all of a sudden wave, it’s more like a big surge of water,
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.
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.
Because tsunamis are not the same in the movies as they are in real life,
Google ‘Japan tsunami’
It shows what it looks like on first impact, it just looks like water that rises and rises,
It isn’t some massive all of a sudden wave, it’s more like a big surge of water,
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