<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/efab112a-963b-4bde-9207-c9edb8fbbfa7/5B00188B-7B0F-4D5D-AEA7-ECBC5EE94CB7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062">A <B>tsunami</B> (pronounced <SPAN class="IPA" title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><A title="Help:Pronunciation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation">/tsuːˈnɑːmi/</A></SPAN>) is a series of <A title="Ocean surface wave" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_wave">waves</A> created when a body of water, such as an <A title="Ocean" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean">ocean</A>, is rapidly displaced. <A title="Earthquake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake">Earthquakes</A>, <A title="Mass movement" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_movement">mass movements</A> above or below water, some <A title="Volcanic eruption" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_eruption">volcanic eruptions</A> and other <A title="Underwater explosion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_explosion">underwater explosions</A>, <A title="Landslides" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslides">landslides</A>, underwater <A title="Earthquake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake">earthquakes</A>, large <A title="Impact event" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event">asteroid impacts</A> and testing with <A title="Nuclear weapon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon">nuclear weapons</A> at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062"><A title="Ancient Greece" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece">Greek</A> historian <A title="Thucydides" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides">Thucydides</A> was the first to relate tsunamis to submarine quakes,<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Thucydides_3.89.1-4_0-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Thucydides_3.89.1-4-0">[1]</A></SUP> <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Smid.2C_T._C._103f._1-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Smid.2C_T._C._103f.-1">[2]</A></SUP> but understanding of the nature of tsunamis remained slim until the 20th century</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062">The term tsunami comes from the <A title="Japanese language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language">Japanese</A> meaning <I><A title="Harbor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor">harbor</A></I> ("tsu", <A title="wikt:津" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B4%A5">津</A>) and <I><A title="Ocean surface wave" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_wave">wave</A></I> ("nami", <A title="wikt:波" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B3%A2">波</A>).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062">80% of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tsunami&oldid=211801062"><P>Historically speaking, tsunami are not rare, with at least 25 tsunami occurring in the last century. Of these, many were recorded in the <A title="Asia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia">Asia</A>-<A title="Pacific" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific">Pacific</A> region - particularly <A title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japan</A>. The <A title="2004 Indian Ocean earthquake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake">Boxing Day Tsunami</A> in 2004 caused approx. 350,000 deaths and many more injuries.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5B00188B-7B0F-4D5D-AEA7-ECBC5EE94CB7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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