Timeline for Why would tsunami be dangerous because of long wavelength, which is opposite to x-ray?
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| Mar 6, 2019 at 13:02 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 25, 2017 at 12:09 | answer | added | sammy gerbil | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 25, 2017 at 3:13 | comment | added | Martin Beckett | @user273872 tsunami are dangerous because of the amount of water in the wave. Typically at sea they are very low (<1m) but very long (<km) which means a very large volume. When they reach shore this wave presses up against the front edge giving the much higher destructive wave. | |
| May 25, 2017 at 2:40 | answer | added | Some Random Awesome Guy | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 25, 2017 at 2:40 | comment | added | user273872 | What I remember people saying is that it's destructive because of the amplitude of that pulse. That brings the height of the wave way up and when it is hitting the shore, so lots of water goes up and washes everything away. | |
| May 25, 2017 at 2:37 | comment | added | user273872 | Aren't tsunami usually caused by short dramatic events like earth quakes? If it's a single pulse I don't know how you can even characterize the wave as having a wave length. | |
| May 25, 2017 at 2:24 | history | asked | Gstestso | CC BY-SA 3.0 |