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tsunami

A tsunami is a very large water wave formed in the ocean and can destroy buildings and people. Usually due to an earthquake or volcanic eruption.

tsunami

a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes

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There was an earthquake and, in addition, there was a tsunami.
A tsunami is coming, so please be on the alert.
The tsunami alert was cancelled.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami warning after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile.
There's going to be a tsunami!
The earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami.
The tsunami obliterates everything in its path.

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She was killed by the big tsunami two years ago.
Excuse me. I heard that this area was hit by a tsunami two years ago.
Why do you want to hear about that tsunami?
That damage would be insignificant, Captain compared to the seismic repercussions massive landquakes and tsunami.
There is a tsunami heading for the city.
It's called Tsunami.
Tsunami, Snake.
Tsunami! Woo!
The scene is about a tsunami.
I mean In 30 years, there'll be a voltarium strike on Candislan?, or the shark-fur trade on Tsunami.
They heard my message, and now they've come from near and far to cast a vote for justice and freedom in a thundering tsunami of change.
Then last April, me and my crew drove out to Emerald Cove. to catch some major tsunami waves.
Scientists say the tsunami may have been caused by what they are describing as unusual lunaractivity. More on this as it develops.
Make a tsunami!
She's setting him up for the Big Tsunami.
That damage would be insignificant compared to the seismic repercussions, massive land quakes and tsunami.
Cat, tsunami is not what you think it is.
Tsunami?
Tsunami, a giant wave caused by an undersea tremor.
And the resulting seismic effect caused the tsunami.
That was a tsunami.
So, you were trying to surf a tsunami?
Glad our eyes were open so that tsunami didn't wash over us.
There's a tsunami headed towards the city, lieutenant.
I remember when the terrible. tsunami struck. and that grim death toll. 250,000.
He had seen the lists of the people who had died in the tsunami.
Scientists say the tsunami may have been caused by what they're describing. as unusual lunar activity.
An earthquake? A tsunami?
Tsunami!
There's a tsunami heading for the city.
It's a political tsunami.
You never see what's coming, like a big, dumb tsunami.
A tsunami probably swept it here. Huh?
And the Tsunami Relief fundraiser, which somehow lost a lot of money.

News and current affairs

BRUSSELS - The tsunami that has swept across financial markets is a global catastrophe.
Within the first two months of the devastating tsunami that struck that December, close to 50 heads of state and foreign ministers visited the island.
Or people think about North Korea's nuclear program, some terrorist incident, or the humanitarian consequences of the latest earthquake or tsunami.
No catastrophic earthquake or tsunami has destroyed southern Europe's productive capacity.
Together the members of NATO have helped to protect Kosovo and recently brought aid to the victims of a devastating tsunami.
But the plant was not designed to withstand the 14-meter-high tsunami waves that swept over its protective sea wall less than an hour later.
Most of the discussion surrounding how to respond to Asia's tsunami disaster has focused on government relief programs and official schemes to implement early warning systems.
Promoting private insurance may seem an indirect response to the tsunami disaster, but it is a rational - and powerful - response.
Many of the worst outcomes in Asia occurred in tsunami-prone areas, such as the low-lying coastal areas of Sri Lanka.
Private insurance would discourage construction in the most dangerous locations, owing to prohibitively high premiums, while encouraging the adoption of tsunami-resistant building standards in marginal areas.
Consider the absence of an early tsunami warning system in the worst affected countries.
Indeed, one of the more striking features of the tsunami disaster was that it caught some of the most glamorous vacation resorts completely unprepared.
The ultimate reason for their lack of preparation is that our insurance industry was not covering their tsunami risks, and hence not offering up-to-date disaster-prevention guidance.
The insurance industry can, and should, respond to the tsunami disaster by accepting the moral imperative to take concerted action to expand risk coverage.
NEW HAVEN - The devastation - both human and physical - from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is unfathomable.
The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low magnitude of Japan's direct impact on the broader global economy.
LONDON - At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing against the continent's shores.
They knew that if the true conditions at many big banks were publicly revealed, many would have been immediately declared bankrupt, necessitating government receivership to stop a tsunami of bank runs.
Residential investment is still at an historic low as a share of GDP as a result of overbuilding during the 2003-2008 housing boom and the tsunami of foreclosures that followed.
The effort that this has inspired to create more innovative learning environments was apparent last April, during a visit to the Tohoku schools destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.
The program has caused a tsunami of online reflection.
The accident at Fukushima resulted from an earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented severity.
Ten days later, he addressed a mammoth public meeting at the city's Minar-e-Pakistan grounds, where, a year earlier, the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan had launched what he not very appropriately termed a political tsunami.

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