GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tsunamis (pronounced soo-ná-mees), also known as seismic sea waves (mistakenly called “tidal waves”), are a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, or meteorite.

Detailed explanation-2: -They are also called compressional or longitudinal waves, and push and pull the ground in the direction the wave is traveling.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning ‘harbor wave’, and is sometimes called seismic sea wave or, erroneously, tidal wave.

Detailed explanation-4: -tsunami, (Japanese: “harbour wave”) also called seismic sea wave or tidal wave, catastrophic ocean wave, usually caused by a submarine earthquake, an underwater or coastal landslide, or a volcanic eruption.

Detailed explanation-5: -noun. : one of many gravitational water waves propagated outward in all directions from the epicenter of a submarine earthquake : tsunami compare tidal wave.