what is sunami?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestWave.htm

These two sites have excellent information on tsunamis.

they can do a very good job of explaining it to you.....

Answer 2

A tsunami (pronounced /tsʊˈnɑːmi/ or /sʊˈnɑːmi/) is a series of waves when a body of water, such as an ocean is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides and large meteorite impacts all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating. The term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu", 津) and wave ("nami", 波). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural, in English tsunamis is often used as the plural. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the area surrounding their harbour devastated, although they had not been aware of any wave in the open water. Tsunamis are common throughout Japanese history, as 195 events in Japan have been recorded.

A tsunami has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore, and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean.

Tsunamis have been historically referred to as tidal waves because as they approach land, they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing tide rather than the sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). Since they are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by oceanographers. [1] Since not all tsunamis occur in harbours, however, that term is equally misleading, although it does have the benefit of being misleading in a different language.

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Answer 3

Man, I wish people would take these questions more seriously before yahoo shuts this down like they did the private group chats :-(

A tsunami (japanese for big wave) starts out rather small, but moves very quickly UNDER the surface of the ocean a few meters. There is a lot of power, and very little resistance (think of the flow of a faucet filling your bathtub, the water rushes out quickly and moves under the surface of the tub. That is why you can quickly be burned in a bath tub filled with cold water when nothing but hot water rushes in! It doesn't have time to cool off and forms "striations" or 'stripes' IE, layers). Now this fast moving "underwater wave" as it approaches the coast of a land mass slows down and piles up on top of itself, losing a lot of energy and slowing down, forming sometimes HUGE waves that are very destructive (tens of meters) high. Even a small one is dangerous in a low-lying area because not only must you worry about the incoming wave, but as it falls over it loses its energy and gravity drags everything back out to the ocean. There is also an undertow effect. This means you wouldn't neccessarily stay on top of the water, it could pull you under it and cause you to drown. I almost did that as a kid growing up in the midwestern part of the USA in Lake Michigan, where there is a natural and dangerous undertow. I was around 6-7 years old at the time

Answer 4

It is Tsunami
It is the reaction after an undersea earthquake. An earthquake under the sea can send huge volume of seawater onto the nearby land thus resulting in a Tsunami. At times an entire mass of water is shifted from ocean area into land area

Answer 5

title wave but a really big one sunami is a word from a different lanugage

Answer 6

a tsunami is the biggest ocean wave that can ever be created... either by an underwater earthquake, landslide or meteor. some kida huge water displacement in the ocean will cause a tsunami.
instead of a beach wave created by wind that curve and crash, tsunami waves roll into shore, possibly for miles.

Answer 7

if you mean tsunami, then go to a dictionary and you will see what it means and what it can do and destroy, but if you mean sunami, it somthing related to sushi stuff?.

Answer 8

Kaay hey Vijoo
Tsunaami che spelling chukiche lihitos ? Too bad!

Answer 9

Javanese girl name.

Answer 10

a kind of sushi.