Earthquakes occurring at the bottom of the ocean far from land could be almost not dangerous for people, if not for the tsunami. These giant waves, accompanying oceanic and sea earthquakes, reach the shores in a matter of time and already there, on land, sweep away everything in their path.
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For humans, a tsunami is more dangerous than any earthquake. If it is still possible to somehow escape from the all-destructive powerful tremors, for example, by jumping out into the street in time or survive under the rubble, then it is much more difficult to survive a tsunami. Its giant waves, breaking into land, sweep away everything in its path. Moreover, the number of human victims in this case depends not so much on the magnitude of the wave (it can have both 10 and 30 meters in height), but on the concentration of people on the coast, early warnings of an impending threat (they are extremely rare) and the sad experience of the population from previous similar elements …
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For example, in the summer of 1993, the Japanese island of Okushiri was hit by a powerful tsunami. Some of its waves reached thirty meters. The number of victims was 250. Usually in such cases, there is much more. Many managed to escape, thanks to the experience gained 10 years ago in a similar natural disaster. They just managed to leave for the higher part of the island.
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But the seven-meter waves of the tsunami that struck the Indonesian coast, claimed the lives of several thousand people. Such a large number of victims arose due to the fact that right on the coast there were many fishing villages and even one international bathing resort.
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In general, the island territories suffer the most from the tsunami. But especially from them falls on the Filipino, Indonesian and Japanese skeletons. So, in 1976, a catastrophic tsunami passed through the island of Mindano in the Philippines. In total, about twenty thousand people suffered from the disaster. More than seven thousand of them died and went missing.
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If an underwater earthquake happened near some coast, this does not mean that it will suffer from the tsunami. Sometimes giant waves travel huge distances and appear in completely different parts of the ocean. So, in 1960, off the southern coast of Chile, the most powerful earthquake in history occurred with a magnitude of 9.5 on the Richter scale. The tsunami caused by him across the entire Pacific Ocean rushed to the shores of Japan. On the way, he touched Hawaii (25 victims) and, after 7 hours, brought down his entire mouse on the Japanese coast.
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Tsunami Tahutu waves were only 12 meters high. But on March 11, 2011, he made history. And not so much because of the large number of victims (25 thousand dead) and destruction, but because of the accident caused by him at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima.
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But the most devastating tsunami in history hit Sumatra in 2004. Thanks to the unfolding frantic speed, its gigantic waves literally swept away from the face of the earth and carried away into the ocean entire small cities along with their inhabitants. The element then claimed 350 thousand human lives.
