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TSUNAMIS IN THE OCEANS AND MEDITERRANEAN Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering Department Ocean Engineering Research Center TSU: harbor NAMI: wave 津波 (つなみ)  The word tsunami was regitered in all languages after Great Meiji Tsunami 1883. 3 WHAT IS TSUNAMI? A tsunami is a series of ocean waves of extremely long wave length and long period generated in a body of water by an impulsive disturbance that displaces the water. 4 CAUSES OF TSUNAMI • Impulses are: • Submarine Earthquakes • Undersea Landslides • Volcanoes • Impacts of objects from outer space (such as meteorites, asteroids, and comets) 5 IAEA Vertical motion of the plates Thanks Dr. Wattana (Thailand) 6 IAEA Vertical motion of the plates Thanks Dr. Wattana (Thailand) 7 IAEA TSUNAMI AMPLIFICATION Thanks Dr. Wattana (Thailand) 8 IAEA 9 10

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