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    This document discusses how tsunamis occur. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the ocean that disturb the balance of sea water. Large earthquakes over magnitude 7 on the Richter scale can cause tsunamis. The document explains how vertical movement of the ocean floor from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides or meteor impacts can suddenly raise or lower the sea floor and disturb the water balance, creating large waves that spread in all directions and grow in size as they approach land.

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    This document discusses how tsunamis occur. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the ocean that disturb the balance of sea water. Large earthquakes over magnitude 7 on the Richter scale can cause tsunamis. The document explains how vertical movement of the ocean floor from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides or meteor impacts can suddenly raise or lower the sea floor and disturb the water balance, creating large waves that spread in all directions and grow in size as they approach land.

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    This document discusses how tsunamis occur. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the ocean that disturb the balance of sea water. Large earthquakes over magnitude 7 on the Richter scale can cause tsunamis. The document explains how vertical movement of the ocean floor from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides or meteor impacts can suddenly raise or lower the sea floor and disturb the water balance, creating large waves that spread in all directions and grow in size as they approach land.

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    KELAS : XI – IPA 5
    NAMA ANGGOTA :
    BIKO HARIANTO
    FADILLA EKA AGMALINA
    M.ALFIANSYAH
    M.RIZAL
    NURCHOLIZA ISKANDAR
    TRI ASTUTI
    “How Does Tsunami Happen”
     General Statement
    Tsunami is a natural disaster caused by the increasing waves of the sea to
    land with a high swiftness as the consequence of the quake which is centred
    under the ocean. The quake can be caused by land erosion, sifted plate, an
    erupted volcano as well as a meteoroid that falls in the ocean. Tsunami usually
    happens if the size of the earthquake exceed until 7 on the Richter scale. This
    tsunami is quite dangerous, mainly for those who live around the beach. With
    great force, it will sweep out whatever around it. From all causes of tsunami,
    earthquake is the major cause.

     Body
    An earthquake on the bottom of sea gives rise to an affliction of the sea water
    that caused by the change of the profile of the ocean floor that generally occurs
    because of a tectonics earthquake and perpendicular (vertical) ground motion
    with the surface of the sea water or earth surface. If the movements of the
    ground are horizontal on the surface of the sea, there will not happen tsunami.

    Even though the movement of the ground is horizontal, but the energy of the
    earthquake is big, and it can cause the collapse of cliffs/hill on the sea
    automatically in which the movement is perpendicular to the surface of the sea.
    Although there is no earthquake that hits the land directly which results vertical
    movement, the condition of a cliff and hill in the sea has been unstable and
    because of the force of gravity and ocean currents that led to landslides, it causes
    tsunami.
    Earthquake causes perpendicular layers motion of earth. As a result, the sea
    bottom is suddenly up and down, so that the balance of sea water was disturbed
    on it, similarly with cosmic objects or meteors that fall from above. If the size of a
    meteor or landslide is quite big, megatsunami can happen with hundreds of
    meters high.

    Vertical movement of the earth crust because of a volcanic eruption, an


    earthquake, the avalanche or a meteor falling to earth can cause the sea floor
    becomes up or down suddenly therefore it disturbs the balance of water on it.
    This makes the occurrence of energy flow of sea water on the beach become
    large waves so that tsunami happens. Billows can spread to all directions. Energy
    which conceives in the wave of the tsunami is fixed on the function of the
    altitude. The height of waves in the sea is only about 1 meter. Thus, the rate of a
    wave cannot be felt by a ship that was in the middle of the sea. When it
    approaches the coast, the speed of the tsunami of decline until about 30 miles
    per hour, but its height has increased to reach tens of meters. When it reaches
    the coast, tsunami enters the land until hundreds of meters, even kilometres.

     Closing
    The victim of tsunami is not a little. The casualties are hit by sluggish water
    flow and material that carried away by the tsunami. Besides the victim, tsunami
    also has a negative impact on the building, herbs,and pollution to agricultural
    land, and water.
    VOCABULARY
     Casualties = Korban
     Sluggish = Lamban
     Occurrence = Kejadian
     Avalanche = Salju Longsor

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