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A tsunami can be generated by any commotion that displaces a large water mass from its equilibrium location. In the case of earthquake-generated tsunamis, the water column is troubled by the uplift or subsidence of the sea floor. Submarine landslides, which often accompany large earthquakes, as well as collapse of volcanic edifices, can also disturb the overlying water column as sediment and rock slump downslope and are redistribute across the sea floor. Equally, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can create an impetuous force that uplifts the water column and generates a tsunami. Conversely, supermarine landslides and cosmic-body impact disturb the water from above, as momentum from falling debris is transferred to the water into which the debris falls. Usually speaking, tsuna-mis generated from these mechanisms, unlike the Pacific-wide tsunamis caused by some earthquakes, dissipate quickly and not often affect coastlines distant from the source area. What happens to a tsunami as it approaches land?

As a tsunami leaves the deep water of the open ocean and travels into the shallower water near the coast, it transform. If you read the “How do tsunamis differ from other water waves?” section, you discovered that a tsunami travels at a speed that is connected to the water depth — hence, as the water depth decreases, the tsunami slows.The tsunami’s energy flux, which is reliant on both its wave speed and wave height, remains nearly constant. Consequently, as the tsunami’s speed diminish as it travels into shallower water, its height grows. Because of this shoaling effect, a tsunami, unnoticeable at sea, may grow to be several meters or more in height near the coast. When it finally reaches the coast, a tsunami may appear as a quickly rising or falling tide, a series of breaking waves, or even a bore.