Indonesia tsunami
2006-07-18 14:32:56 · 20 answers · asked by moya3 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
The same reason a person can drown in a tablespoon of water. It just happens.
2006-07-18 14:36:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard some people who experience a tsunami on the news. The wave is deadly enough to knock a person down and when they mix with debris it even worse. To a very skills swimmer might drawn because if you're under water all the debris will float on top which the waves pulse current will make it harder for the swimmer to stay on surface to breath. The water is not clear as you think because it mix with mud and debris. One mouthful of that water it might knock you out of your normal breathing. Also with the chaos everything is moving with you and you can see a lot of laceration on people because anything (glass, broken wood, so on..) will bump into you just like a tornado. So I guess this is why a tsunami is so deadly.
2006-07-19 01:09:59 · answer #2 · answered by rattlesnakes_101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How fast was the wave traveling? And what did it slam the people into as it pushed them along? Did those people all know how to swim? Have you ever lived thru a tsunami wave?
2006-07-18 21:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by InnerCircle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the wave has a huge amount of force and knocks over smalls building etc. Say it picks up a car: Can you be killed by a car that kits you? Sure can. The stuff in the wave is what kills people.
2006-07-19 00:17:27 · answer #4 · answered by glenbrent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the people in Indonesia are only 4 foot tall !
2006-07-18 21:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by Arthur M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hay! you donot have the least idea of the volume of water moving in shape of the 6 feet high wave on the sea surface ... add it speed and you realise that the force of the wave is sufficient to deroot pine trees it passes over. One can hardly imagine its drive when returning from land to sea back. It is terrible even to hear the noise that is produced by it.
These tides are c'est a dire "giants" !!!!! God save us from them!
2006-07-18 21:43:37 · answer #6 · answered by Asra Mahnoor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it wasnt an average wave, it had alot more volume of water behind it, along with it was moving considerably faster than normal ones also. and indonesia doesnt have very much altitude, so the wave was able to travel inland enough to do more damage,
2006-07-18 21:42:30 · answer #7 · answered by mad_chemist_05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The force of water is tremendous in terms of its potential energy. Water turns turbines to make electricity, and it can bend steel when applied with enough force. So, yes. A six foot wave can be devastating in terms of its potential energy and force applied to geographic features.
2006-07-18 21:39:04 · answer #8 · answered by fenx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you imagine if a 6 foot wave slams into you and then drags you right next to the electricity wires......
2006-07-18 21:49:59 · answer #9 · answered by Lisette F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of folks were probably caught off guard and the wave came in with a lot of force - think of a mini-storm surge - and swept them off of their feet as they were fleeing.
The average person is less than six feet tall. It doesn't take a lot of water to knock you off of your feet.
2006-07-19 01:45:00 · answer #10 · answered by brotherb95 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋