I really think I do understand the force of the ocean. I also understand tides, and (as you apparently do not) that so-called “tidal waves” have nothing to do with tides, nor are they the same as rogue waves.
A 4” rise (or drop) of the ocean floor covering a few hundred square miles is a tremendous, potential, force. These buoys are firmly attached to the ocean floor. Waves crash upon them all day and night. Tides are different than waves and easily accounted for. A 10’ tidal wave would register on a buoy as a 4” to 6” ‘long pulse’ that would only turn into a wave when it neared the shore and the depth of the ocean, relatively, decreased.
What’s so hard to understand about the above?
Too technical for you?
The ocean floor rose, initially 4”, then another 3’ - it’s not a wave nor a tide.
And you called the journalist an idiot.