I was in Sendai together with my wife when the 2011 Fukushima earthquake hit but I didn't get to see the tsunami, only the aftermath.
My wife and I slept in late in the hotel which was pretty far from the coast since we partied all night before. Then we woke up all hungover to the most epic earthquake (ceiling and walls were bending on our floor) and saw the flooding outside but I missed seeing anything of the initial tidal waves except on the news later.
Also it completed flooded the Sendai airport and caused the trains to stop operating so we had to walk for hours and hours to get back home. That was really annoying.
I always had dreams about tidal waves though. I found them beautiful in a way, swallowing everything up in water. I used to constantly dream of them in a boy like sitting in a building next to the sea and seeing a rise wave so high that it blotted out the sun and smashed through the windows killing us all. Yet I missed my chance to see the actual thing with the ones in Sendai and slept through it.
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It's funny, how many people associate a tsumami with tides.
My workplace is a boatyard right at the sea: I see tidal waves each single day :)
As for tsumamis: once only, but it was far from the epicentre, and quite harmless.
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Yes loads of times, A tidal wave is a shallow water wave caused by the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. it is not a Tsunami
As others have pointed out a tidal wave is caused by the pull of the moon. All tides are tidal waves. We've got very big tides here and you can often see them as they race up rivers. The severn bore is the most famous but I've seen them in small tidal streams
Garrett McNamara surfs these things:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/74pnrYPozcUhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/74pnrYPozcUI have seen some really high surfs I have seen houses get lifted right off their foundations but never saw a tidal wave.
Never seen a tsunami in person. I've seen several videos. A tsunami can be very destructive.
A tsunami or a tidal wave? See tidal waves every day, but we havenβt had a tsunami here in a very long time if ever
Is that the thing where people in a crowd stand up and raise their arms in turn?
A tidal wave yes
A tsunami no I haven't
Thankfully, no.
nope
Just on the TV, and they look very scary.
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