What is a Tsunami?

Tsu - harbor

nami- wave

 Use The Weather Station for general weather questions

How Tsunami are formed- Information from the How things work Web Page Earth Observatory -Image of the earthquake area causing the Tsunami from NASA
The Wave Machine -Build your own wave

from the PBS site The Savage Seas

 National Geographic Kids -Tsunami pictures, maps and facts

International Tsunami Information Center 

 Books:
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck. A fictionalized account of a tsunami hitting a small fishing village in Japan. 

The Tsunami in Asia: Actual images and video of the aftermath of the December 26th Tsunami 

Wave of Destruction photos and videos of the tsunami

The Online NewsHour  News from PBS

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