• 1.Not to long ago Japan had a tsunami.• 2.An earth quake off the coast of Japan caused

the tsunami. • 3.A tsunami is a wave that starts out in the

ocean the wave gets bigger as it moves towards the land.

4.The first part of a tsunami to reach land is a trough called a “drawback “ the water along the beach goes back a lot more than a normal high tide . Then the large wave comes.

5.Earthquakes,volcanic eruptions, under water explosions and meteorite impact can cause a tsunami.

6.Tsunami comes from the Japanese tsu meaning “ harbor”and nami meaning “wave”.

7.A tsunami can be hundreds of kilometres long, one hundred kilometres high and travel at the speed of a jet plane.It can travel twenty kilometres inland.

10,000+ People died.

230,210+people died

• Tsunamies are very dangerous, sometimes there is no warning or not enough time to get to safety.

• If you see the water at the beach go out to sea you need to RUN!