I’ve always thought this as a kid and I’ve been told it doesn’t work that way but never got an actual explanation
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So the one misconception about tsunamis is that it’s a big wave face, so grab your surf board!!!
No.
It’s a rise of the level of the sea. If you’re standing on the beach and you have a decent size set coming in, and it rises you up 15 ft off the beach you were standing on, you’re prolly not going to have anything to hold on to when the wave recedes and takes you out to the ocean.
Also, if you are a little more inland, there can be a lot of debris in the water, causing injury.
[about halfway through this video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mk68bZ701s0) you can see the first wave hitting Japan. No way to “dive under” the wave.
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