How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler

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    The immense swell of a tsunami can grow up to 100 feet, hitting speeds over 500 mph -- a treacherous combination for anyone or anything in its path. Alex Gendler details the causes of these towering terrors and explains how scientists are seeking to reduce their destruction in the future.
    Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Augenblick Studios.

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  • @AerisReyha
    @AerisReyha 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2681

    "When nature is too powerful to stop, the safest course is to get out of its way"
    a nice wisely quote... ^_^

  • @zoeyb9322
    @zoeyb9322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2344

    Me: **The only one here for school work**

  • @daffyrackincash5650
    @daffyrackincash5650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +581

    479 Persian soldiers
    “Mark can you swim?”
    “No why?”
    *Points at tsunami*

  • @JayD_Tron
    @JayD_Tron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    AH YES NOT A 1 HOUR LONG VIDEO FINALLY SOMETHING THEY CAN EXPLAIN IN JUST 3 MINUTES WITHOUT HAVING DRAMATIC MUSIC

  • @texturizer6224
    @texturizer6224 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1794

    To add to this:
    - Wave lengths can be 100-1000km apart
    - Waves can approach shore in 5 minutes intervals
    - Time between each wave is 5-60 minutes
    Please like this so others can see!

    • @waqasaps
      @waqasaps 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What happens when wave trough hits the ground first?

    • @awesomegarvchadha3321
      @awesomegarvchadha3321 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hi, I do not think that there is any possible way to convert the energy of Tsunamis for something else as it could be too dagerous. The reason how we can get energy from lightning is that we can control where it strikes and then save the power. In this case we can not controll Tsunamis at all, and even if we did, we would not be able to see the eneregy in the water and catch up to its speed.

    • @Fifth_Avenue842
      @Fifth_Avenue842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes but this would determine how powerful and fast the waves hit the coastline, right? Constructive and Destructive Waves vary.

    • @justtheletterV274
      @justtheletterV274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Texturizer Also, There are also waves called Mega Tsunamis, which are caused by a large displacement of land in water, especially La Palma, a Canary Island with a super volcano that can create a landslide, causing waves 1 km /0.625 mi. /3300 feet high at first but then shrinking to 100 m/ 0.0625 mi./ 330 feet,

    • @justtheletterV274
      @justtheletterV274 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Good Puss 3000. oh look another promoter

  • @yasiruranaweera3888
    @yasiruranaweera3888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    Me and my family got caught in 2004 Tsunami.
    Luckily, all of we survived.
    Most devastated thing I’ve ever seen. 😐

    • @BlueJayy02
      @BlueJayy02 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The one in Thailand?

    • @yasiruranaweera3888
      @yasiruranaweera3888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      No in Sri Lanka.

    • @yuktatantichativat6888
      @yuktatantichativat6888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@yasiruranaweera3888 ahh I live in Thailand luckily I live in the central of the country and also I was born on the 28th of Sep. 2013 😑🙃

    • @amazinglaurenfindinganewbe3152
      @amazinglaurenfindinganewbe3152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@yasiruranaweera3888 I'm happy you survived from the tsunami

    • @mingjingh3093
      @mingjingh3093 ปีที่แล้ว

      That tsunami was probably 93 ft. high

  • @russiaunion4713
    @russiaunion4713 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1628

    How to survive a tsunami :
    Be the camera guy

    • @user-kw9yi5nj1h
      @user-kw9yi5nj1h 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I survived the 2011 Fukushima tsunami I was only 11yrs old then

    • @amychen5344
      @amychen5344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You climb a mountain with 100-180 ft so earthquake warning ⚠️ tsunami 🌊 100 ft

    • @chairnot0k36
      @chairnot0k36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@user-kw9yi5nj1h wow it's that true

    • @catmagedsproductions1998
      @catmagedsproductions1998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Kid:But how?
      Camera man:just put water on your head

    • @frav3n
      @frav3n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You mean stay on high ground

  • @CodyCombat
    @CodyCombat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +662

    If the tide recedes suddenly, run like hell

    • @ethanbenjamin6681
      @ethanbenjamin6681 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      you cant run your so slow xd

    • @vonadison5819
      @vonadison5819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @sandravivianabadillo3359
      @sandravivianabadillo3359 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cody Windsor fzxhkllll
      Foto cuando ni úû 🌋🏟️:-D:-$

    • @sphansel3257
      @sphansel3257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      galaxy gaming :3 then run to the farthest point inland and drive your car away .

    • @the_hanburger
      @the_hanburger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your profile pic is a logo of a game

  • @samsamhuns928
    @samsamhuns928 10 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    TED-Ed is one the best educational channels on youtube with its easy to grasp examples and animations

    • @itswasmimi
      @itswasmimi ปีที่แล้ว

      No

    • @HarshKS2
      @HarshKS2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@itswasmimithen who?

  • @sharcs
    @sharcs 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1976

    If I ever have twin daughters, I'm naming them Sue and Nami.

    • @terry2788
      @terry2788 6 ปีที่แล้ว +301

      Ohhh, so if they ever got lost you could shout "Sue, Nami!" to make everyone freak out and cause panic while having a logical explanation, genius!! 😂😂

    • @someoneinparticular6458
      @someoneinparticular6458 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Lᴜɴᴀ HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA LOLOLOL YOU GOT ME!

    • @raniasultan2330
      @raniasultan2330 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sharcs .

    • @zeejay6625
      @zeejay6625 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      lol! It happened here in Cebu, Philippines (it's impossible for us to get hit by tsunamis as we are surrounded by nearby islands). It was Feb 2012. People ran for the mountains when one motorcyclist was looking for her daughter after an earthquake, "Chonamae, Chonamae!" But he pronounced it as "tsonami! tsonami!", creating a panic among the people and leaving their vehicles on the streets to run to the mountains. HAHAHA
      (Disclaimer: It's just a legend. I don't know if it's true or not. But that's what people thought caused the panic.) 😂

    • @mariee3414
      @mariee3414 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      DR Death the wolf XD

  • @justinekobes3757
    @justinekobes3757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    This is so well put and explained, thank you!! I've always had an interest in tectonic plates.

  • @Username-mq1tx
    @Username-mq1tx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    people: No a tsunami I don't want it to kill me
    Tsunami: Ha Ha Waves go Splash Splash

  • @KyleAngeloManguni
    @KyleAngeloManguni 7 ปีที่แล้ว +816

    tsunami hits
    caused fire

  • @BinkieMcFartnuggets
    @BinkieMcFartnuggets 10 ปีที่แล้ว +471

    If Poseidon was so powerful why couldn't he afford a pair of pants?

    • @alexkiryuin9668
      @alexkiryuin9668 10 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      if i were powerful and worshiped i wouldn't wear pants either

    • @tomdoyle8448
      @tomdoyle8448 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      alex meow hahahaha

    • @jaypee9575
      @jaypee9575 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Solomon Grundy want pants too

    • @oliversinden9638
      @oliversinden9638 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He likes to hang out with his wang out

    • @bagheofminhrau
      @bagheofminhrau 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      𝒯𝒽ℯ𝓇ℯ 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓃ℴ ℒℰ𝒱ℐ'𝒮 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓃.

  • @Diana_L.
    @Diana_L. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What this doesn't capture is the incredible wavelength of tsunamis. That's why most of the videos of the 2011 don't show towering waves bearing down on the shore. There, the leading edge of the tsunami usually wasn't very high, but the wave got gradually higher as more of the tsunami came ashore.

  • @akashmoana-singh8453
    @akashmoana-singh8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    fun fact: the highest ever recorded tsunami was over 1100 metres in Alaska caused by a massive landslide, where only a father Fisherman and his son saw it. (but they survived)

    • @joeybrazda364
      @joeybrazda364 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      i wish wouldve witnessed that let alone survive it

    • @element6972
      @element6972 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Akash Moana-Singh there were some bigger than that

    • @akashmoana-singh8453
      @akashmoana-singh8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Element 69 could u say which one plz

    • @sebp3249
      @sebp3249 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      That one in Alaska was reported to be 550 metres high mate haha, there hasn't been waves around 1km since the meteor that whipped the dinosaurs out.

    • @blanque4250
      @blanque4250 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought the meteor caused water to evaporate

  • @BaadBadBoy
    @BaadBadBoy 10 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    This should have a lot of people re-thinking their beach-house.

    • @MikeDunn
      @MikeDunn 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      BaadBoy's Playhouse Hurricane Sandy had a lot of people re-thinking their beach house at the Jersey shore.

    • @jimred1369
      @jimred1369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      or even better, avoid buying property near the tectonic plate

  • @Skandar0007
    @Skandar0007 10 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    RIP, the 218,000 people.

  • @sopi7416
    @sopi7416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    i’m definitely not here because i have an assessment that was due 2 weeks ago that contributes to most of my grade

    • @crvtbhununun6012
      @crvtbhununun6012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      F

    • @Moni-_.
      @Moni-_. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      F

    • @acolossalangrybook3169
      @acolossalangrybook3169 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      F

    • @definitelynotasimp9334
      @definitelynotasimp9334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you get a good grade.

    • @sopi7416
      @sopi7416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@definitelynotasimp9334 my teacher kept on asking me y I haven't sent it in for her but I just ignored her and ended up getting a D. my parents weren't happy lol

  • @saventra1038
    @saventra1038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    *Has two essays due tomorrow*
    Brain: You need to find out how a tsunami works. Dew it.

  • @LokmanSalikoon
    @LokmanSalikoon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Best explanation of what a tsunami is so far. Good job!

  • @tomstanely
    @tomstanely 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Damn. I remember the 2004 Tsunami. I was asleep when it happened, but I woke up and went to the balcony and I saw a huge flood. At first I thought it was heavy rain, but it was too much. An uncle said it must have been a tsunami.

    • @HughJass-jv2lt
      @HughJass-jv2lt ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whatever!
      You were dreaming
      😜😜

    • @Skylah
      @Skylah ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HughJass-jv2lt This comment is just funny, especially with the unironic use of emojis 🤣

    • @HughJass-jv2lt
      @HughJass-jv2lt ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Skylah
      ❤❤

  • @Username-mq1tx
    @Username-mq1tx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I watched this video for a school project about tsunamis thank you for the infomation

  • @MaritsView
    @MaritsView 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    *02:56** That is because the tsunami walls were 10 meters in height and the tsunami waves were 20 to 40.5 meters in height.*
    *But despite that, it definitely slowed it a little, without these walls it would've been even worse.*

    • @zeff8820
      @zeff8820 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, the highest tsunami wave from 2011 is 20 meters but the tsunami run-up reach as high as 40 meters.
      Tsunami wave height is not the same as tsunami run-up height.

    • @nalialightning6730
      @nalialightning6730 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zeff8820 yes you are correct but most people don't know the correct terminology and simply refere to the run-up or on-shore height (40m in this case) when they say height not the Tsunami or off-shore height (20m).
      Edit: typos

    • @zeff8820
      @zeff8820 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nalialightning6730 this is one of the example that shows the true height of the tsunami wave 2011, it's clearly the highest one is above 10 meters but i don't think it reached more than 20 meters and most of tsunami wave height footages from 2011 are around 8-10 meters.
      th-cam.com/video/CYVdYSCXG3Y/w-d-xo.htmlm27s

    • @zeff8820
      @zeff8820 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nalialightning6730 compared to the indian ocean tsunami 2004 wave heights, most reasearchers suggest the biggest and highest wave are around 9-30 meters high in Sumatra because the destruction is incredible and very visible even from the satellite
      th-cam.com/video/cysl0rucrI0/w-d-xo.html

  • @magicpenguin0839
    @magicpenguin0839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Tsunami: here I come
    Person: let’s record
    : )
    Tsunami: am I a joke to you ?!

  • @NexusOfChaos
    @NexusOfChaos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +563

    these vids have taken me an hour past my bed time XD too much good info!

    • @NexusOfChaos
      @NexusOfChaos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +NexusTheBrony im just gonna close my omputer and take from here tomorrow...

    • @nses9989
      @nses9989 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +NexusTheBrony SAME, ONCE I WATCH ONE VIDEO FROM TED I KEEP WATCHING

    • @user-ht3tp3uj4v
      @user-ht3tp3uj4v 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Lu Sung haha , Same here . I bet everyone same. The narators and the animations are awesome in TED-ed. Also the information is interesting but I forget it as soon as the video is over xD

    • @goody400plays5
      @goody400plays5 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Κώστας Καραπαπαχατζηδιμιτρακόπουλος same :(

    • @sillysaili
      @sillysaili 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +NexusTheBrony SAME

  • @emmac573
    @emmac573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    thanks, y’all just helped me write my science essay that’s due tomorrow. time? *3:47 am* l love you middle school❤️

    • @lucid1963
      @lucid1963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How's Highschool

    • @gamingfiredrago
      @gamingfiredrago 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lucid1963 😂 don't freak em out

  • @BassDat33
    @BassDat33 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It doesn't look like a big wave really, you see the sea coming, and coming, and coming, and never retreat... this happens way faster than u think at the moment. Its like when you have a big water pool to swim, then the plastic tears and the water floods everything in the yard, now take that moment in your head with sea, a pool that has pretty much endless water and keeps flooding everything. Now that you have a picture of the flood, add fishing ships, big containers and cars floating moving towards you, when it reaches the town it will be with some planks part of trees or even walls from houses.
    I'm not trying to argue here, its just the video shows like a rally big wave to surf in and fear, but its more like i said in the text before.
    I'm from Chile, and the tsunami on 2010 killed more people than the earthquake itself.

    • @amandawild8522
      @amandawild8522 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yup, kinda disappointed by how that misrepresented it in that way.

    • @Koroar
      @Koroar 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's true, though massive waves like that are possible when the tsunami is caused by a landslide, look up the Lituya Bay tsunami.

  • @enigma63071
    @enigma63071 10 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "When nature is too powerful to stop the safest course is to get out of its way" .... where to???? I dont think the 18000 in Japan and the 200000 in Asia were just standing there enjoying the scene!!!

    • @apburner1
      @apburner1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jebus fuck, really? Did they really need to explain that you should get out of the way if you can, that sometimes you can't? Do you have people explain to you how to wipe your ass, and that sometimes you run out of toilet paper?

    • @enigma63071
      @enigma63071 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      apburner1 If i can run then i will and not going to wait for someone to tell me ... I was talking about the people who could not... in their case, that safest way is inapplicable... sure they didnt need someone to tell them to run because they know that, but they could not due to the circumstances.

    • @enigma63071
      @enigma63071 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** I like the idea of converting disasters to a power source, but yeah! sadly - as you said - we only use the power to kill each other

    • @MaryMary-iw7wh
      @MaryMary-iw7wh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Flarus 500mph could definately power entire villages in third world countries.I say let's do it! And while we are at it, could someone please create a way to capture and harvest lightning. All of that wasted energy going into the ground, I need that energy as my light bill gets quite high in the Arizona Summer.

    • @wallaceanature2788
      @wallaceanature2788 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the point is that with early warning, thanks to detection and monitoring systems, it may be possible to evacuate an area before the tsunami hits.
      More than 1,500 people died last week in Sulawesi from a series of heavy earthquakes and a tsunami. The devastation has an aftermath of suffering due to loss of infrastructure, power, clean water, road access, food supplies, telecommunications, etc. Takes sometimes years to rebuild in developing countries.

  • @lordcthulhu3589
    @lordcthulhu3589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I watched this when I was a kid, keep the good work up dude!

  • @jellypudding1833
    @jellypudding1833 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Japan: oh I been in a tsunami
    India:yes bro me to
    Netherlands:what is a tsunami?

  • @ventisca89
    @ventisca89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Palu, Indonesia, Sept 28 2018

  • @I34R
    @I34R 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very clearly explained. Thanks a lot helped me for my midterm

  • @craftyunicorndream8865
    @craftyunicorndream8865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Here's a fact about tsunamis I researched at school u might know:
    Some tsunamis can be hundreds of kilometers long!!! 🙂😉

  • @simuraisim8002
    @simuraisim8002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    who else is doing this for their geography homework

    • @id-f86
      @id-f86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      science homework

    • @taeyongssecret24thchildand93
      @taeyongssecret24thchildand93 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same, geography work too!! omg, I am so bored and kinda irritated because this video basically just summed up what we learnt in class!!

  • @kindnesssad
    @kindnesssad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My teacher showed me this as my homework so i sent him a distorted version of another video and he really has no idea what that was about LOL

  • @danielward9376
    @danielward9376 10 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Just to clear something up, Fukushima didn't cause18000 deaths, the tsunami did. It is a little misleading in the video if you aren't listening carefully. Great video though. Thunderfoot has some good videos about the affect Fukushima had on people.

    • @ThalesII
      @ThalesII 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's also important to note that the sea wall surrounding Fukushima wasn't as tall as it was supposed to be. Other nuclear plants' walls managed to stop the water due to being taller.

    • @wesleymorgan8406
      @wesleymorgan8406 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is so important!

    • @HusseinDoha
      @HusseinDoha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The tsunami was not the reason for the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The earthquake ruined the power plant.

    • @ey3z4ya
      @ey3z4ya ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HusseinDoha The tsunami was actually the reason. Fukushima took a direct hit from the waves and the reactor was flooded.

  • @MariamMohamed-vg8nm
    @MariamMohamed-vg8nm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This video really helped me because i am doing a project on this and it had so much info

  • @cadtexequiel732
    @cadtexequiel732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was the first Ted Ed video I ever watched wayback 2014

  • @GamifyYourself
    @GamifyYourself 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nobody :
    Literally Nobody :
    *Me : Here For School E-Lesson 🤣😂

  • @Ano_mi.
    @Ano_mi. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Others pronouncing -
    T-s-u-n-a-m-i (sunami)
    Me pronouncing when I was a kid -
    T-s-u-n-a-m-i ( Tasunami)

    • @Namrataa_Boraah
      @Namrataa_Boraah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Armyyyyyyy. Same here

    • @Ano_mi.
      @Ano_mi. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Namrataa_Boraah oh hi army 💜

  • @crocojason
    @crocojason 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really informative... Excellent job!

  • @NejraKovacevic
    @NejraKovacevic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Used this for my presentation, thanks

  • @thinhla5906
    @thinhla5906 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Ted! The video is really informative

  • @viloet3332
    @viloet3332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this 3 minute video helped me more than my geography teacher did

  • @sakshimakkad7520
    @sakshimakkad7520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey! This is an irrelevant question but I am asking 'Which app are you using to animate this video??' Please answer as soon as possible.
    And the video wad wonderful, thanks for giving such a nice video.

  • @inferiorsinister
    @inferiorsinister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Remember. The camera guy always wins.

  • @keisha.dechaca
    @keisha.dechaca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ive just watched a tsunami video that occured in Ryoishi Town on 2011 and the tsunami didnt seem to be a giant wave. It was rather a fast and powerful watersurge that covered the whole harbor and everything else around the coastline in just a matter of a minute or less. A horrendous scene.

  • @wowshiii4519
    @wowshiii4519 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We used this exact video literally in our science class

  • @brianwest1371
    @brianwest1371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is it just me, or were other people gave this video and told to complete an assessment for school?

  • @sussykanyeballs176
    @sussykanyeballs176 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanksssss! helped me a lot in my project

  • @tallymark2417
    @tallymark2417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the year 1700, there was a massive earthquake in Alaska. It caused a tsunami over in Japan. Because there wasn’t any way of communicating soon enough back then, the people in Japan had no idea where this death wave came from.

  • @ScorpionYTS
    @ScorpionYTS 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks! Helped me a lot)

    • @ScorpionYTS
      @ScorpionYTS 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** LOL, hey! #TED

    • @MegaJoshua987
      @MegaJoshua987 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Scorpion - Agar.io Woah I was just watching one of your videos, then went to home and saw this video in my recommended. :o I love your vids btw...

    • @AdamOnPCGaming
      @AdamOnPCGaming 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ayyy, I want to play Agat with you!

  • @MarcianusImperator
    @MarcianusImperator 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I may be wrong, but from what I remember, a tsunami isn't like a normal wave in that it is as if the sea level as a whole has risen - the wave stretches a great distance in depth.

    • @TheBluMeeny
      @TheBluMeeny 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You've reiterated the video. Congrats.

    • @BattleBunny1979
      @BattleBunny1979 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      as is pointed out in the video.

    • @vroxxzz
      @vroxxzz 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It did mention a rise in sea level. Watch the video again.

    • @TheBluMeeny
      @TheBluMeeny 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It actually did mention it, if you watch it over again...

    • @oyatunes
      @oyatunes 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And also unlike wind waves tsunami transfers also water so im confused.

  • @frozenmagma2826
    @frozenmagma2826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this helped me a ton. i needed this info for an assignment

  • @shoourya664
    @shoourya664 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    a tsunami has been an irrational (maybe) fear of mine since i was a kid. i'd constantly have dreams of this huge wave ravaging my home and sweeping away my loved ones. to this day i check for tsunami signs whenever i'm at the beach 😭😭

  • @sejal9765
    @sejal9765 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    really good video i love the imagination and animation : )

  • @MeepChangeling
    @MeepChangeling 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You could plant massive concrete pillars in the coastal water so they cause the energy to diffuse and warp around them thus preventing the wave from forming as the energy changes path like a ball in a pachinko machine, loosing energy with each bounce but eh, do your own thing I guess.

    • @fullmetalfunk
      @fullmetalfunk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Meep “the” Changeling It would depend on how big the tsunami is. If you go and watch some of the footage of the tsunami in Japan in 2011, or the Southeast Asian Boxing Day tsunami, there was just so much energy that that really wouldn't have stopped it. It would have just pushed right past, and any debris that hit it might have pulled the pillars down anyway. You're also going to be hard pressed to put enough pillars up to make any difference even for a small tsunami along the entire seaboards of tsunami prone areas. It's cheaper and probably much more effective to monitor conditions and give evacuation warnings when it's thought a tsunami might be approaching. The only places something like that could be useful, and only if you built them big enough and strong enough, would be at places like the Fukushima reactor where, even with people evacuated, the surge of water could cause catastrophic consequences. Even then, higher seawalls would be better suited and probably more effective than the pillars. Also maybe not building nuclear reactors around the ocean or on fault lines, lol.

  • @tiachang1487
    @tiachang1487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was a really good video. It was really informative.

  • @Tharealgirlyy
    @Tharealgirlyy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you this helped me with my science essay.

  • @bethrock1407
    @bethrock1407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Noah:I love tsunamis but tsunamis are terrifying and scary :-) O_O

  • @b3a3n3a3n3a3s
    @b3a3n3a3n3a3s 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the animation!

  • @pandamilitia129
    @pandamilitia129 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks, I needed to do research of tsunamis for homework

  • @elizabethmiller2032
    @elizabethmiller2032 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am looking for tsunami videos for school, this is the best one ever!!

  • @JohnSmith-kb2sr
    @JohnSmith-kb2sr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wdym "Underwater Earthquakes", of course it was Poseidon.

  • @deranged311
    @deranged311 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Very educational and easy to understand!

  • @shreeyasfunclub5700
    @shreeyasfunclub5700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How to survive a hurricane?
    START MAKING THE HURRICANE'S DRESS😂😂

  • @TheVision-gd7np
    @TheVision-gd7np 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The last sentence makes so much sense now

  • @osama9347
    @osama9347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This helped me ALOT THANK YOU😃

  • @zomicks-bakery-org
    @zomicks-bakery-org 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I was young, my father taught me that. Now I see it visualized

  • @thehanliyanage6796
    @thehanliyanage6796 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was very helpful for my homework thank you TED-ED :)

  • @samsonmathew2519
    @samsonmathew2519 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Video. Very well explained.

  • @coolkida5159
    @coolkida5159 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Who else high as he’ll randomly searching stuff ?

  • @2009shumy
    @2009shumy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    No, it was actually the Poseidon.

    • @popcornegg4405
      @popcornegg4405 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Petar Ivanovic poseidon just found a new toy

  • @Ashing646
    @Ashing646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm really watching a damn video from 2014 for my school work

  • @miouque
    @miouque 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tsunami is like one water-block with countless waves. One normal wave is what we can (theoretically) jump over but tsunami is different. The same height continues.

  • @zeejay6625
    @zeejay6625 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    lol! Here in Cebu, Philippines (it's impossible for us to get hit by tsunamis as we are surrounded by nearby islands). It was Feb 2012. People ran for the mountains when one motorcyclist was looking for her daughter after an earthquake, "Chonamae, Chonamae!" But he pronounced it as "tsonami! tsonami!", creating a panic among the people and leaving their vehicles on the streets to run to the mountains. HAHAHA
    (Disclaimer: It's just a legend. I don't know if it's true or not. But that's what people thought caused the panic.) 😂

  • @mei6061
    @mei6061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I need to write a paragraph so. I need to learn something

  • @iyaaltaee8044
    @iyaaltaee8044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, this video explained it very clear for me, 😄

  • @lydiasensei4957
    @lydiasensei4957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    for those raised in metric system, Tsunamis's travel 800km/h and reaching heights of 6,000 m.

  • @cameronwest9745
    @cameronwest9745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Those darn tectonic plates man,I’m tryna tell ya 🤧🤧🤧

  • @ozzyboysaireznicopior5260
    @ozzyboysaireznicopior5260 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When nature is too powerful to stop, your best course of action is to TREAD LIGHTLY.

  • @andiniamalia9297
    @andiniamalia9297 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you sm. I'll use it for my assessment

  • @fannyyyyyyyy
    @fannyyyyyyyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was a big in 2004 in Indonesia, South east asia. More than 100 thousand people died in Indonesia alone.

  • @rsALEX
    @rsALEX 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thank you for this fifth grade demonstration that will not leave my recommendation box!

    • @rubywalsh2931
      @rubywalsh2931 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alex Krasikow I’m in 5th grade 🤣

  • @harper_wolf0728
    @harper_wolf0728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:18 HOW ARE THE BUILDINGS ON FIRE WHEN THE TSUNAMI HIT?! IT WATER!

  • @anthonyfierro623
    @anthonyfierro623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If anyone knows any tsunami warning systems pls reply to this bc I need it for a school project

  • @maayongaga729
    @maayongaga729 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lesson for us that live in these islands prone for Tsunami.

  • @henkwaterlander3038
    @henkwaterlander3038 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The nuclear meltdown didn't kill 18.000 people, the tsunami did.

    • @humudu
      @humudu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yes? that's what she said..

  • @serdarcite
    @serdarcite 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Potidaea reminds me a story about Moses, Paraoh and the Red Sea.

  • @theyetti90
    @theyetti90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poseidon Worshipper: Y'all sleepin' on ma boy's skillz.

  • @Shadowynation
    @Shadowynation ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When u find out ur school kept this as a link in LWA which is uploaded 8 urs ago. like, maybe a video which was posted a bit sooner ya know. But it is amazing. I understood so much from this. I rate it 10/10

  • @planetc.s.a4297
    @planetc.s.a4297 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0 : 30 Poseidon?

  • @storm6230
    @storm6230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Me in geography hoping a tsunami will happen

  • @joemulligan8162
    @joemulligan8162 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thx so much. Helped me with school project a lot

  • @GoodieM8
    @GoodieM8 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you so much for this. this video was exactly the video i needed for my work. its absoulutely perfect

  • @georgethefossil3542
    @georgethefossil3542 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I already watched this in my E.L.A class XD

  • @JoeMartinez_LA_LostSoul
    @JoeMartinez_LA_LostSoul 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    holy s**t i love the animation.. thought a serious subject, the animation had me laughing

  • @mentalizatelo
    @mentalizatelo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best way to solve the tsunami issue is to assemble a massive underwater army and fight them back until they're dead and we can open a McDonalds, a KFC and a greasy korean restaurant an the center of the Earth. Oh, and a Holliday Inn too, with a pool.
    PS: Love your videos @TED-Ed

  • @yuukitoblo7036
    @yuukitoblo7036 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Came here because I missed school for a few weeks. Now I only have1 week to do this instead of 3

    • @dtfcghhvg
      @dtfcghhvg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      that sucks i hope you got it all done