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[Melee Pure]

you know the movie 2012?

is it possible, for a tsunami to ever be that height?

[d72]

We'll have to wait two years to find out

:shifty:

[Melee Pure]

haha , D72, i actually posted this for your answer, but

out of commen sense, what do you think ?

Remotely possible? or not even possible?

[Creamie pies]

Anything could happen.

[I C0NN0R I]

tsunamis are formed by fissures on the coean floor, like one half of the fissure suddenly drops, and the water rushes to fill that area, creating a wave, so i guess if you have a fucking massive earth quake close to shore it could get quite high, but those end of the world movies are rediculous.

[Devlz]

tsunamis are formed by fissures on the coean floor, like one half of the fissure suddenly drops, and the water rushes to fill that area, creating a wave, so i guess if you have a fucking massive earth quake close to shore it could get quite high, but those end of the world movies are rediculous.

this.

and like daniel said. we'll see in 2 years lol.

[Bows 0n Fire]

You're all doing it wrong..  :shifty:

Normal tsunamis are caused by a fault bumping up, not down.  The up-bump displaces a column of water, which then goes and hits the shore (there are some other mechanisms at work here, but they're unimportant).  Generally, normal tsunami waves cannot reach higher than 10 to 15 meters, even the Indian Ocean 2004 tsunami only got up to about 10 meters at the coast of Indonesia (higher readings, around 24 meters, were only observed on flat coastline).

However, there's more than one type of tsunami.  There is also a phenomenon that scientists are calling the 'megatsunami'.  This results from a large landmass suddenly falling into the ocean, where the wave height becomes proportional to the volume of rock that fell.  The most famous example is Lituya Bay in Alaska (wikipedia it for more info), which caused waves over 500 meters high.  There is a lot of debate over the likelihood of something like this happening again, but the most cited example is the Canary Islands, at a volcano that I forget the name of.  If it slides into the sea, it could cause waves over 1,000 meters high, but would only be 50 meters high by the time it hit the US.  Then again, Hawaii is suspected to have past activity like this, with similar wave heights, so who knows.

Hope that helped... have fun sleeping tonight  :ph43r:

[Creamie pies]

You're all doing it wrong..  :shifty:

Normal tsunamis are caused by a fault bumping up, not down.  The up-bump displaces a column of water, which then goes and hits the shore (there are some other mechanisms at work here, but they're unimportant).  Generally, normal tsunami waves cannot reach higher than 10 to 15 meters, even the Indian Ocean 2004 tsunami only got up to about 10 meters at the coast of Indonesia (higher readings, around 24 meters, were only observed on flat coastline).

However, there's more than one type of tsunami.  There is also a phenomenon that scientists are calling the 'megatsunami'.  This results from a large landmass suddenly falling into the ocean, where the wave height becomes proportional to the volume of rock that fell.  The most famous example is Lituya Bay in Alaska (wikipedia it for more info), which caused waves over 500 meters high.  There is a lot of debate over the likelihood of something like this happening again, but the most cited example is the Canary Islands, at a volcano that I forget the name of.  If it slides into the sea, it could cause waves over 1,000 meters high, but would only be 50 meters high by the time it hit the US.  Then again, Hawaii is suspected to have past activity like this, with similar wave heights, so who knows.

Hope that helped... have fun sleeping tonight  :ph43r:

We all could of used Wikipedia....

[Adolesc3nt]

^ true that

[Bows 0n Fire]

You also could have taken a science course in school... ;)

[MasterRoy]

we'll see in 2 years yes :D

[Ellijah|Stoned]

Bow On Fire is Right but still, the earthquake in Haiti slowed the worlds rotation and not sure how many but in a couple of years our day is going to be like an hour shorter.

[xH3LLGARx]

it is possible to have all of the worlds water to create one massive wave because it is all connected, but idk about the hieght, the power is definalty there