The deadliest tsunami in history?
I will be telling you guys about tsunamis and earthquakes and a lot of other things related to tsunamis and earthquakes. If some of you don’t know what a tsunami is well then I will tell you, a tsunami is a lot of waves made by a earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption or very rarely a meteorite hits. Tsunamis can cause huge damage when they hit coastlines. Some people call tsunamis “tidal waves.” Right now I bet your thinking to yourself, “How is a tsunami caused in details?” well I will answer that right now. Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes are caused when an ocean plate is pushed or forced into a mantle.
Now I will go into how science is involved in a Tsunami and earthquakes. Science is involved in the tsunami by a lot of ways, one of them is that scientists use a seismograph to detect where it is, when it will hit and how strong it is. The Seismograph works by when a wave leaves the epicenter the Seismograph will record the frequencies by making these waves on a paper. So scientist can tell everyone and tell that danger is coming. Another way they can predict if a tsunami is coming they track the winds and how strong it is and then they also look at the temperature and what time of year it is. Scientist can predict if a tsunami or earthquake is coming by a GPS as well. Also they use a simulation program to see what the earthquake or tsunami will do to countries around the world. Then they use a pressuring system and then they take a map and try to mark were it is happening and then from those marks further on in the year if a Tsunami or earthquake happens there again then they would know automatically because they marked it before. Those systems are mainly used for tsunamis but now I will tell you a bit on how they use a system to detect earthquakes. There are two main ways, one of them is the same as the tsunami, and it’s to have a seismograph a look and the wave frequency. But the new one that some people have animals and they pay attention to them and if they start to act up or act weird then you will now and you will follow the animals to where they go. Those are two ways to know when a earthquake is coming.
The benefits of having a warning system are a great advantage for the people who live in that place for example in Phuket, they didn’t have a warning system and a lot died and some had no homes to go to. But if you do have a warning system then you will know when a earthquake comes or tsunami and then you can prepare for example for a earthquake you can border your windows and get the ware house ready or you can move to a place that it prepared for a earthquake. But for a tsunami, the most wise thing to do once you get the warning it to get out of that area and to move to high ground and when I say high ground I don’t mean going to a top of a apartment building I mean claim to the top of a mountain or drive away from oceans or large pots of water. All those things I told you are was f benefits and limitations to having a warning system.
Now I will tell you the impact on the society of having the warning system and which one is the best, I would think that the best warning system is the seismograph and it is really reliable. But for the society I would that it would increase the society because if you have this warning system the people who want to visit will know for sure that they will safe when they are at the beach or any part or that country of place because of the warning system. Another advantage of having this warning system is that if you get more people to the country then the economy will rise because you might get politicians and lawyers and everything else. So as you can see there is a great advantage to having the warning system.
So as you can see, the seismograph is the best warning system from my perspective and I hope you guys agree with me. But I would also agree with the GPS system of navigating the waves. The thing I didn’t agree is with the meteorite, if a meteorite hit the earth the places that is hit would destroy everything and there would be no water so how would there be a tsunami, but I have heard that if a meteorite hits these really strong winds start and blow around the earth which would make whirlpools and maybe begging coastline waves but I don’t think a tsunami.
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