What Are the Tallest Ocean Waves in History ?

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As well as being beautiful, nature can sometimes be dangerous and deadly in the form of volcanic mountains and storms and hurricanes. Natural disasters such as the Tsunami  can cause catastrophic damage to the Earth. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami which caused a magnitude 9.1 to 9.3 earthquake.And this tsunami killed 298,728 people An earthquake in Japan in 2011 killed at least 16,000 people Seven thousand people were injured, 2500 people Missing and this was the biggest loss in human history That's three hundred billion dollars, which is more than the total GDP of South Africa.

The Indian Ocean earthquake produced more energy than the explosions used in World War II. Thus waves of 30 meters or 100 feet high were created Say for Reference that if 17 people are stacked on top of each other, it becomes about The waves reached near Indonesia, South Asia and the east of Africa Japan's tsunami wave was 133 feet high It passed through the eastern border of Japan and reached a radius of ten kilometers He left behind such a dangerous scene that the scene of the Hollywood movie.

Tsunami can have many causes For example, the eruption of a volcano that is also under ocean. Also landslides, These natural disasters are also divided into many different categories.

Regular Tsunami

Which are frequent due to earthquakes but they do not cause much damage

Mega Tsunami

Then comes the mega tsunami Which are caused by the waves of any large object falling into the ocean The greatest example of this is the 1963 accident in the city of Italy, When the Italian government was working on a huge dam in which falling rocks caused the dam to collapse and the huge wave to move towards the rural population. In which about two thousand people were killed ,But a study of history reveals that a tsunami was so large that its waves were 1979 feet high. Which occurred in the area of Molokai when huge rocks fell into the sea This accident happened 1.5 million years ago.

But now let's talk about the biggest tsunami in the world that happened millions of years ago when asteroids, ten kilometers in diameter, fell to the ground. This is the  asteroids that took the dinosaurs ended from the world, Which caused a tsunami, Which was five kilometers high which eliminated everything that came in its way, But no need to worry Because, according to scientists, it is unlikely that any asteroids will ever hit the Earth.