Tsunami photos

[NicoleRussell]

There are photos of every natural disaster hitting except tsunamis--(except for the lame ones showing nothing but some water rushing the island in the recent reports).
I have been looking but it seems there are none from any disaster showing an actual wall of water unless I'm missing something. Anyone have any links? Or are they just not existing?

[Reptscue]

This is the only one I have seen.
This was in the beginning.

[NicoleRussell]

thanks...this is the first I have seen this one.
Reports are that the waves were 15 feet---then some reports were 30 feet---does anyone know what the truth actually is?
It seems like so much death for 15 foot waves.....

[schmelkdog]

Here's some general info on em.....gives an idea of how the power of these waves are different. In different area's people measure waves differently. Like on the east coast of the U.S. they usually measure how high a wave is, say 7 feet. In Hawaii they measure it from the start of the wave crest on the water so the east coast 7footer is almost nothing on the north shore. Least that's what they told me when I went for some work there....... http://www.geophys.washington.edu/ts...teristics.html Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths. The wind-generated swell one sees at a California beach, for example, spawned by a storm out in the Pacific and rhythmically rolling in, one wave after another, might have a period of about 10 seconds and a wave length of 150 m. A tsunami, on the other hand, can have a wavelength in excess of 100 km and period on the order of one hour.
As a result of their long wave lengths, tsunamis behave as shallow-water waves. A wave becomes a shallow-water wave when the ratio between the water depth and its wave length gets very small. Shallow-water waves move at a speed that is equal to the square root of the product of the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s/s) and the water depth - let's see what this implies: In the Pacific Ocean, where the typical water depth is about 4000 m, a tsunami travels at about 200 m/s, or over 700 km/hr. Because the rate at which a wave loses its energy is inversely related to its wave length, tsunamis not only propagate at high speeds, they can also travel great, transoceanic distances with limited energy losses.

[EyeOfTheStorm]

Fox news was at one point showing a video clip of what was said to be 20 to 25 foot wave coming in.. It looked as if it was a security cam shot from atop a building or a tower. But in any event, it was amazing. You could see it hitting the coast and rushing in a few hundred yards. I have been looking for the same thing, pics or video of a live Tsunami. Unfortunately, they happen so fast and without warning, makes it almost impossible unless you have a something like a permanent security cam on a building like what Fox was showing. The only warning they get, is the surf going really far out to see. They say when you see that, you better run like you stole somethin. LOL

[haroldo359]

i am watching fox news now, and they are supposedly gonna show new footage of the killer wave coming in, but from what i have seen, it isn't a 'wall of water.'

[haroldo359]

i just saw it... it was a pretty big wave... looked just like a big wave, lol... i don't think the magnitude of it was evident on video.

[John_White]

This video is pretty amazing:
http://www.dagbladet.no/download/tsunamiphuket.asx

[ChicagoCubs22]

A tsunami is not all about this towering height of water engulfing an island country. This tsunami happened to break, causing the effect of rushing water, as you can see in the videos. The killer was the speed of water and the amount of water wiping out structures, businesses, small buildings, and everything else in its path.

In fact tsunami's are not "tidal waves". That term is false. Tidal waves are tides, or rises and drops of the ocean's surface level due to the position of the earth and how and where the gravity from the moon and sun effect the earth. The ocean swells due to gravity pulling on it.

VIDEOS:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/tsunami.html

[Wrasse]

Oops, already posted. Sorry