what is a tsunami??? by: lauren perovsek
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What Is A Tsunami??? By: Lauren Perovsek . The most resent Tsunami was in 2004. Many people don,t survive. little boy struggles to survive!. A small wave comes up to a hotel. How a tsunami is created. A tsunami is very powerful. Hotels may be big but tsunamis are bigger. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What Is A Tsunami???By: Lauren Perovsek
The most resent Tsunami was in 2004
Many people don,t survive.
little boy struggles to survive!
A small wave comes up to a hotel.
How a tsunami is created.A tsunami is
very powerful.
Hotels may be big but tsunamis are bigger.
A tsunami can over run a whole city.
People have to sail to their houses.
Animation of Tsunami currents
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In the year 2004 there was a tsunami it was created by an
earthquake….
Tectonic platesThe Indian plate is
Part of the Indo-Australian Plate, which underlines the
Indian Ocean and BayOf Bengal, and is
drifting north east at An average of 6
centimeters a year.
Indo-Australian PlateThe Indo-Australian plate is an overarching name for two tectonic plates that includes the continent of Australian
Where the 2004 tsunami was created by an
earthquake.
Indonesia before and after the tsunami.
Unlike earthquakes,tsunamis are a phenomenon that researchers are just beginning to understand.For centuries they were referred to ‘’tidal waves’’—a misnomer since tidal connotes tides which are connected to the gravitational pull of the moon.The conventional thinking on what causes a tsunami has changed drastically changed in the last 20 years.
Tsunamis are a phenomenon.
The death toll in 2004
was nearly 118,000people.80,000 people were killed alone in that country.
Do animals have a sixth sense?Well scientists are still trying to figure out that questions.They think that because all the animals in that area were untouched they all went to higher ground.
Tsunami Pattern(tectonic plates)
Before and After
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!
A Big Wave!
Like I said before many people don’t survive.
I hope you can swim!!!
The Island just got swept away.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
DifferencesSome people think tsunamis and mud slides are the same things.They are not!They think that they are the same thing because they both carry away land but us fourth graders are so smart we know the difference between them.The difference is a mud slide starts on land a tsunami starts on water.
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