Why do Tsunamis happen....?

Question

because an earthquake under water should easily get pacified by the liquid that water is..so y do Tsunamis happen.....

then why do so many people die .only those without habit of swimming die ,i suppose.....

Answer 1

You should call and ask the wacko from the 700 club, Jerry Falwell or what ever his name is. He claims it it GOD angry at Homosexuals.

Answer 2

No, the water does not "pacify" the earthquake. The mass of the water is displaced somewhere by the earthquake and the "pacification" of the water is the water triying to get back to its original place.
Think of it next time in your bath: the top is flat and calm.
Move your hand below the surface.
Now, sudently and with force, move your hand downward. You create a volume where there is no water, a "HOLE" in your sea, and the water from all around rushes towards the vacuum you have made. That is the beginning of the tsunami. The water came in the center point from all direction and the level of water rises above your hand, above the normal level of water.
This new pile of water then spread in all directions the keep the top of the water level: that is the second phase of the tsunami, where the water moves from the earthquake center towards the coasts.
Of course, a real tsunami move much more water than you can in your bathtub!

Answer 3

Kind of like swirling water in a bath tub. When we were children we had a big resouvour of water. All the kids would get on one side and swish to the other creating a wave after a while of doing that. that would cause the water to almost go over the side.
The ground opens up and the water goes down probably hundreds of miles then it comes back together the water shoots out. With such force that it carrys hundreds of miles to the shore line. Thats why the water goes away before it comes back. Causing a huge wave. We will see more of this because these explosions are causing the fragile crust of the earth to move. Everything we do has a consequence. We polute the air and we have storms. Bomb testing and missles cracks the crust. Causes these plates to move.

Answer 4

A tsunami is a series of ocean waves with very long wavelengths (typically hundreds of kilometres) caused by large-scale disturbances of the ocean, such as:

earthquakes
landslide
volcanic eruptions
explosions
meteorites
These disturbances can either be from below (e.g. underwater earthquakes with large vertical displacements, submarine landslides) or from above (e.g. meteorite impacts).

Tsunami is a Japanese word with the English translation: "harbour wave". In the past, tsunamis have been referred to as "tidal waves" or "seismic sea waves". The term "tidal wave" is misleading; even though a tsunami's impact upon a coastline is dependent upon the tidal level at the time a tsunami strikes, tsunamis are unrelated to the tides. (Tides result from the gravitational influences of the moon, sun, and planets.) The term "seismic sea wave" is also misleading. "Seismic" implies an earthquake-related generation mechanism, but a tsunami can also be caused by a non-seismic event, such as a landslide or meteorite impact.

Tsunamis are also often confused with storm surges, even though they are quite different phenomena. A storm surge is a rapid rise in coastal sea-level caused by a significant meteorological event - these are often associated with tropical cyclones.

For further details refer to
http://www.bom.gov.au/info/tsunami/tsunami_info.shtml

Answer 5

The reason so many die is because when the water comes in the force, when it goes out drags people out to sea. Water in large amounts is very powerful so its not that people die because they can't swim, althought I'm sure some drown, it's because they are thrown against other objects much heavier than the people. Mother nature is an awesome force, which we have no control over.

Answer 6

Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic eruptions and large meteorite impacts all have the potential to generate a tsunami

Answer 7

Earthquakes are not babies and thus do not get "pacified".
A mass displaced is usually displaced by something else. In the ocean, a void of earth would get displaced by water, very quickly, thus creating a void elsewhere.

Answer 8

Because the shore gets smaller and smaller as it gets nearer to land so where else do u think the water is goin to go, if u splasehd in ur bath, the water goes everywhere, so its obvious thats what happens with tsunamis!!!

Answer 9

Because earthquakes happen under the sea and they cause huge waves to go to land.

Answer 10

They are basically earthquake's in the water and the continental plate and pacific plate underneath motion starts to take action and move the plates.

Answer 11

"To generate tsunamis, earthquakes must occur underneath or near the ocean, be large and create movements in the sea floor."

Hope that helps!