tsunami
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- noun
- /tsuˈnɑːmi/
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tsunami
- The earthquake and resultant tsunami collapsed facilities and damaged infrastructure in a huge swath of northeast Japan.
- a tsunami warning
- tsunami waves
- tsunami after an earthquake
This forum will examine the response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crises in Japan.
- This forum will examine the response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crises in Japan.
- Well, the tsunami isn't going to affect us here.
- The big Christmas Day suit or Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand, was it in East Asia?
- But by doing that, these plants then can be susceptible to to tsunamis crashing into them.
- You said that there's tsunami seasons, and I said, what do you think a tsunami is?
- And one of the reasons it's hard is you cannot easily untangle the tsunami from the nuclear reactor accident.
- That was a tidal wave, rocky right angles, tsunamis.
- Dude, a freak tsunami at a wave pool in China.
- And that's why they should to build a giant ass wave pool where every giant tsunami wave is the same.
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The earthquake happened, but the real disaster was the tsunami that followed, as we all know.
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It is the most devastating tsunami in recorded history.
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All the animals started running up into the hills because they could sense that tsunami was coming.
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Thousands upon thousands dead in that tsunami.
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Japan has one of the most advanced tsunami warning and preparation systems in the world.
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We do have information that the tsunami has made landfall.
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There's a tsunami warning for the next two hours.
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Reports of the death toll kept increasing soon after the tsunami occurred on December 26, 2004.
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After the 2004 Asian tsunami, one million people were initially displaced in Sri Lanka.
Academic text (2012) -
After the earthquake, a massive tsunami struck the coastal town, leaving destruction in its wake.
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A very large wave of water that suddenly rises along the coast and causes damage
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Etymology
Tsunami comes from Japanese parts tsu and nami, which mean 'harbour' and 'wave', so the word literally means a 'harbour wave'. That's a helpful way to remember that a tsunami is a very large sea wave that can hit the coast after an underwater earthquake.