tsunami
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In addition, the results suggest that parts of Doggerland persisted through major flooding events, including the Storegga tsunami about 8,150 years ago, with some areas remaining above water until roughly 7,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
The floods are reported to have caused more destruction in Sri Lanka than the 2004 tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Others see the sea change as less a legal tsunami than a tidal cultural shift — one jurors in New Mexico and California are riding, not speaking into existence.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
A gripping documentary revisits Japan’s combined catastrophe in 2011 of a tsunami and a nuclear crisis—which threatened to become even worse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
While the basic facts of the earthquake and tsunami were the same for everyone on the Tohoku coast, the details for each town were unique.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing tsunami
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