[RightWhale]

Where the Red Sea parted, if indeed that was a historical event, the sea is shallow. A tsunami wouldn't have had much room to get going in that region. There was a tidal wave at Valdez during the Good Friday earthquake that moved the water of Prince William Sound substantially, and the associated earth movement would have been impossible to overlook.

[blam]

"Where the Red Sea parted, if indeed that was a historical event, the sea is shallow. A tsunami wouldn't have had much room to get going in that region. "

Earthquake?

Remember this map that shows the ocean level during the Ice Age? Well, it shows the Red Sea as an isolated body of water and this event (Thera) may have 'reconnected' the dessicated Red Sea to the world's oceans.

BTW, During the Ice Age, the Nile Valley would have looked like the Grand Canyon, a river vally 300-500ft lower than today.

[SunkenCiv]

Tsunami means "big wave in port". Naturally, the energy of such waves is expressed that way because the water near shore is typically shallower, and in the case of a harbor, bay, gulf, etc, narrower.