Tsunami

A tsunami also called the tsunami wave train, while wrong, like a tsunami is a series of waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water in usually a sea, but it can occur in large lakes. Tsunamis are a common phenomenon in Japan. About 195 events were reports of the large amounts of water and energy, tsunamis can devastate coastal regions.

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including the explosion of nuclear weapons under water), landslides and other mass movements, meteorite impacts on the ocean or similar events, effects and other conditions and under water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

The Greek historian Thucydides was the first submarine to the earthquake tsunami link, but to understand the nature of tsunamis remained until the 20th Century is slim and the subject of ongoing investigation. Many ancient texts geological, geographic and oceanographic refer to tsunamis as "seismic waves."

Certain weather conditions such as severe depression caused by tropical cyclones may have a storm surge, called meteor tsunami;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpuLlIrUYsI  the tide can lift several feet above normal levels. The passage of low atmospheric pressure in the middle of the depression. As these storm surges reached the shore, which are similar (but not) tsunamis, flooding vast tracts of land.