[MediaMole]

Whoa! Tsunami!!!

Wait, it was only 10 cm. The water must have been pretty cold.

[bd476]

Ya know, 10 cm is not a lot, however, since they mention it, it raises the question as to how wide a spread was this 10 cm tsunami, was it 50 feet, was it 1000 feet or was it 10 miles wide by 10 miles long? Then we're talking about a lot of extra water.

Tsunamis generally do the most damage when they inundate the shoreline with extra water. The dramatic large breaking wave tsunami is rare. A tsunami is also different than a "rogue wave."