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

• I found myself beset by her tsunami of desire and surrendered as it washed over me.
• Confronted with the devastation of the tsunami, ordinary people performed extraordinary acts.
• The world suffers an epic tragedy as a tsunami spreads death across Asia.

News & Articles

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• Want to survive a tsunami? Try this
  MUKILTEO, Wash — A Mukilteo company has a plan to help people survive the next tsunami. Survival Capsule LLC. and IDEA INC., shipped a specially designed capsule to Tokyo, Japan to show potential investors that a round sphere the companies …
  June 13, 2013 - Q13 FOX Seattle
• Tsunami boat to move to new site
  Vessel from Japan will be exhibited at Cultural Center The 20-foot boat that was swept to sea from a small Japanese town during the 2011 tsunami and travelled the entire width of the Pacific Ocean to Crescent City will be installed for display at the Crescent City Cultural Center at 1 p.m. Monday. The boat will be installed with the help of students from Del Norte High School who have been ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Daily Triplicate
• Big earthquakes sound own tsunami warnings
  By Becky OskinLiveScienceDeath by drowning was the biggest killer in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.Since the disaster, scientists have analyzed the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, seeking better ways to predict these dangerous waves. Based on computer modeling, scientists at Stanford University now think sound waves from big earthquakes such as Japan's could provide 15 to 20 ...
  June 10, 2013 - MSNBC

Quotes

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• Alan Greenspan in ABC News
  Greenspan, who stepped down in 2006, called the banking and housing chaos a "once-in-a-century credit tsunami" that led to a breakdown in how the free market system functions.
• Robert Gates in The Age
  Our ships and aircraft awaited country approval so they could act promptly to save thousands of lives -- approval of the kind granted by Indonesia immediately after the 2004 tsunami and by Bangladesh after a fierce cyclone just last November,...
• Tim Costello in 940 News
  Tim Costello, chief executive of World Vision Australia, said that "it's certainly the case that the Americans, as they showed in the tsunami, have extraordinary capacity."