Tsunami Presentation

1. Tsunami Survival
Julia Gushue
Mrs. Young
11/4/2014

2. Imagine yourself on a vacation with your
family. You are staying at a beach resort,
when all of a sudden you hear this
monster wave.

3. Before we continue, I want to go over some basic facts
you need to know. You will see these words highlighted
in the following presentation.
Tsunami – an unusual large wave produced
by an earthquake or volcano eruption.
Japanese Tsunami Wave

4. Wave
It is a disturbance on the surface of a liquid
body.
Wave from Japanese Earthquake

5. EARTHQUAKE
It is a shaking or trembling of a portion of
the earth.
Results of Japanese Earthquake

6. Fault
A crack in the earth’s crust.
Located in California

7. Focus: The place movement first occurs
along a fault is below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter: Surface above the focus.

8. Landslide
The sudden downward movement of a mass
of rocks or earth on a steep slope.
Landslide causing a tsunami.

9. Eruption: To burst out lava from a volcano.
Ocean: A whole body of salt water that
covers nearly ¾ of the earth.

10. FLOODING
An overflow of water that submerges land
which is usual dry.
Flooding in Thailand from a Tsunami in 2004.

11. Tsunami Beginnings
Tsunamis can begin by either an earthquake,
a volcanic eruption or a landslide. For
example, the Thailand Tsunami in 2004
was caused by a (9.3 out of 10) massive
earthquake in the Indian Ocean.

12. Tsunami Facts
The ocean water can reach 450 miles per
hour and tsunamis can hit areas 30 feet
above sea level or higher.
50ft wave above sea level Japan 2011

13. Tsunami Facts
Hawaii is most vulnerable to Tsunamis. It is
one of two U.S. locations with a Tsunami
Warning Center. (The other is Alaska).
Tsunami Warning Center

14. Tsunami Facts
One of the most deadly Tsunamis was in
Thailand in 2004 and 230,000 people died.
In Japan, 300,000 people died in 2011.
Japanese citizens inspecting area after Tsunami 2011

15. Tsunami Fact
Tsunami waves can be up to 100 feet tall or
higher.
Tsunami Wave Japan 2011

16. Tsunami Facts
Largest Tsunami wave ever recorded: Alaska,
1958, wave height was 1,720ft – taller
than the Empire State Building.
http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/the-biggest-tsunami-ever-25022010/

17. Key Researcher
• Eric Dunham, geophysics, assistant
professor who is trying to use information
from 2011 Japanese tsunami to predict
and warn about future ones.

18. Tsunami Video
Video edited to show biggest areas of impact.

19. Conclusion
I hope you learned about tsunamis and how to escape
them. I hope that you enjoyed this presentation and
that it was a fun learning experience.
I believe that tsunamis are very powerful and that they
are serious issues that the world must face! They are
not caused by things like a penny dropping, they are
from rattling movement.
Such as …
Landslides
Volcanic eruptions
Large earthquakes

20. Works Cited
Some of the resources I used to complete
this project were...
The book ''Wicked Weather'' , A DISCOVERY
CHANNEL BOOK
Webster’s Dictionary
Images found on Google Image
Video of Tsunami found on YouTube

21. Thanks to Samuel Lombardo, my dear
brother, for editing the video and help
from my mother, Jennifer Lombardo with
Powerpoint.