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Seismic sea wave
Answer for the clue "Seismic sea wave ", 7 letters:
tsunami
Alternative clues for the word tsunami
- Salt shaker?
- Coastal hazard
- A sudden rise or fall of seawater level is an unmistakable sign that one is coming
- Rag time ally abroad welcomes, giving a wave
- Destructive wave in N Uist swirling round before noon
- Sea wave caused by an earthquake
- A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)
Word definitions for tsunami in dictionaries
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, in reference to the one that struck Japan that year on June 15, from Japanese tsunami, from tsu "harbor" + nami "waves."
Usage examples of tsunami.
Sitting in a boat on the ocean, you could ride over a tsunami, but the shores can get hit with waves that are forty meters high.
Data and Ensign Ro had just managed to make some lights flicker on when the tsunami hit.
The offshore quake set up a tsunami that swept the Indian Ocean, killing 300,000 people and wreaking unimaginable damage.
It also revealed that rather than being a single big wave, the tsunami was an initial big one followed by hours of choppy sloshing.
Diego Garcia hydrophones spotted were minute changes in the pressure of the 1,200 meters of overlying water as the tsunami rolled overhead.
Shortly after that, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, in Hawaii, calculated the magnitude at 8.
To the extent that the March 28 one generated a tsunami, it beamed most of its energy to the southwest, where it dissipated in the open ocean.
The 1960 quake not only caused widespread damage across coastal South America, but also set off a giant tsunami that rolled six thousand miles across the Pacific and slapped away much of downtown Hilo, Hawaii, destroying five hundred buildings and killing sixty people.
Aleytys watched the water retreating past her, as if the onrolling tsunami was sucking it up to add to its substance.
And the slide back began, faster and faster the water went back to the sea bottom, the elaborate dance of the tsunami slowing and slowing, falling away.
And as it reached the shallower water of the Texas coast, the tsunami gathered itself, rearing ten to twenty times its initial height.
She had burrowed deep enough into the mud for the tsunami waters to spare her.
He has less than half the number of warriors, though we have been sorely wounded by the tsunami slaying some of our best samurai.
Why, they were almost surely within the tsunami already, and had been for weeks.
A dozen other bodies from the tsunami had been found in their forward cone.