Seismologists have just registered an earthquake in Seward, Alaska, that is big enough to produce a tsunami. The ocean depth is 4,000 meters. Use the wave speed formula to approximate the tsunami ...

A tsunami can move hundreds of miles per hour in the open ocean and smash into land with waves as high as 100 feet or more. From the area where the tsunami originates, waves travel outward in all ...

Unlike the waves we enjoy at the beach, tsunami waves don’t break because they don’t get steep enough. Energy distributed throughout the water column and wavelengths extending a hundred miles ...