tsunami
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The earthquake saw thousands of people ordered to evacuate in coastal areas of the southern Philippines and neighbouring Indonesia as tsunami warnings were issued by multiple countries and a regional warning centre.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
The trench, which is a source of huge quakes, generated a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in 1976, triggering a tsunami that killed about 5,000 people.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a notice that tsunami waves were possible "within the next three hours" along the coasts of the Philippines, Indonesia, Palau, Taiwan and Papua New Guinea.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Now comes what he believes is the biggest tsunami of them all: generative artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
This is nothing, he thinks, reminding himself of the nuclear power plant that melted down in Fukushima, Japan, after an earthquake, and the tsunami that followed.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing tsunami
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