seiche
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Scientists estimate the waves, known as a seiche, were nearly 2 feet high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
“The earthquake causes what’s called a seismic seiche, and it’s basically a sloshing of the water back and forth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2019
One of them proposed that the wave might have been created by a curious phenomenon known as a seiche.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
This video shows a seiche generated in a swimming pool by an earthquake in Nepal in 2015.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The maximum height of a recorded seiche at Geneva is rather over 6 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
