Tsunamis (pronounced soo-ná-mees), also known as seismic sea waves (mistakenly called "tidal waves"), are a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake ...

(Knowing when it's safe to return after a local quake is something still needing research, Bernard says, but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis: Local and Teletsunamis. Local tsunamis are waves ...

In Kesennuma, people retreated to a hi-rise roof top and could only watch in horror as tsunami waves inundated their city, knocking buildings into rubble and mixing into a kind of tsunami ‘soup ...

This annual drill, coordinated by the UNESCO/IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. This is how scientists study tsunamis. The Delta Flume is a massive wave tank in the Netherlands. It's nearly 1,000- feet long.