wall of water

This is not particularly noticeable in deep sea but as the ocean floor becomes shallower close to land, the wall of water has to rise and is driven onshore by strong winds.

A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, the police said.

Located in rugged Shasta County, Burney Falls — a 129-foot wall of water that President Theodore Roosevelt once dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World” — has been a local secret for much of its history.

“When you have a reservoir 78 kilometers long and you’ve raised the water level about 40 meters, you’d just have a wall of water and given how low-lying some of the parts of Luang Prabang are along the river, it’d be devastating,” Hirsch said.

A wall of water more than 70 feet high practically wiped the village off the earth.