Question 1
What event most often suddenly shifts the seafloor and starts this ocean hazard?
- Undersea earthquake
- Heat wave
- Lunar eclipse
- Hurricane
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Undersea earthquake
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Tsunamis trivia quiz
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- Wave Physics
- Indian Ocean
- Detection
- Warning Systems
- Alaska 1964
- Coastal Effects
- Lituya Bay
- Tohoku
- Deep Ocean
- Krakatau
- Lisbon 1755
- Mediterranean
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Question 2
What does the Japanese term for this hazard literally translate to?
- Deep-water current
- Harbor wave
- Ocean storm
- Rising tide
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Harbor wave
Question 3
Rather than one lone surge, this hazard usually arrives as what?
- A cloud bank
- A rotating funnel
- A series of waves
- A single wave
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A series of waves
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