INTRODUCTION ON TSUNAMI

12 MARCH 2008

A SHORT INTRODUCTION ABOUT TSUNAMI
Green Issue
Tsunamis bring huge environmental damages with them. For example:
- Beaches have been washed away or littered with debris
- Rivers are filled with trash and silt (loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually 1⁄20 millimeter or less in diameter)
- Coral reefs damaged in polluted water
- Endanger animal species living in or near the sea
- Rendering farm land useless

Physics Principles Involved
- Principle of pressure: Pressure = Force/Area or Pressure due to a liquid column
(To find out the amount of pressure the waves contain & the amount of force exerted over an area)
- Waves with it transference of energy and vibration
- Principle of superposition of waves

By Jinny