Tsunami

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؟What is a tsunami

Hua is a very large amount of water that is carried by very high waves and very fast to land. This is the result of the movement of tectonic plates within the crust.

Examples of tsunami? What happened in Japan. Off the coast of eastern Japan on March 11, 2011, resulting in tsunami waves in the Pacific Ocean, the epicenter of the earthquake is located 373 km northeast of the capital Tokyo and 130 kilometers east of the city of Sendai. The earthquake resulted in more than a thousand dead and missing and the destruction of Sendai airport in Japan Property and destruction of infrastructure and in oil stations and nuclear plants and their cessation of work Energy Agency: shut down nuclear plants near the earthquake zone in Japan. The quake was the deadliest in Japan's history since document records began 140 years ago. This earthquake was preceded

The two-day Honshu earthquake is at approximately the same location with a magnitude of 7.9 on the seismic moment scale. The impact of the earthquake exceeded Japan has affected the islands of the US Hawaii strong earthquake and expected to be affected by the United States, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia and Taiwan. According to the Hawaii tsunami warning center, seven meters were recorded in northeastern Japan, while other estimates indicated that the wave was 10 meters high and the earthquake disrupted roads, railways, electricity and ports in most of northeastern Japan. G losses to about $ 170 billion.

The tsunami is one of the most serious and severe human-made disasters, as it is difficult to predict. It leaves a great loss of life and material losses that are too large to violently penetrate cities and villages, which makes them fit to live only after they have been repaired and restored before the disaster.