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A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake. Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer.

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$A station attendant (C) explains the train service situation for the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) which connects Tokyo and northern Japan at Tokyo Station on December 7, 2012 following a 7.3 earthquake and tsunami alert. A one metre-high tsunami hit northeast Japan after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was devastated in last year\'s quake-tsunami disaster.$

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$A station attendant (C) uses a loudspeaker to explain the train service situations for the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) which connects Tokyo and northern Japan at Tokyo Station on December 7, 2012 following a 7.3 earthquake and tsunami alert. A one metre-high tsunami hit northeast Japan after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was devastated in last year\'s quake-tsunami disaster.$

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FILE - In this June 6, 2012, file photo, a man looks at the tsunami dock that washed ashore on Agate Beach in Newport, Ore. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department says the work to remove a tsunami dock from Agate Beach could begin as soon at July 30. The 66-foot dock will be dismantled and hauled away from the beach north of Newport under an $84,000 contract with Ballard Diving and Salvage of Vancouver, Wash. The dock washed ashore June 5 and officials confirmed it had been swept away from Japan in the March 2011 tsunami.

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$In this Aug. 29, 2012 photo, Mary Johnson, the general manager at Washed Ashore, shows a piece of foam-like material that may be insulation and tsunami debris in Bandon, Ore. In early June, a big dock splashed ashore in Oregon, confirming everyone\'s suspicion: Tsunami debris had arrived. Now, officials say, the worst is yet to come. Winter storms always drive piles of ocean trash onto Oregon\'s beaches. This year, they will carry debris from the 2010 Japanese tsunami.$

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$A station attendant (L) uses a loudspeaker to explain the train service situations for the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) which connects Tokyo and northern Japan at Tokyo Station on December 7, 2012 following a 7.3 earthquake and tsunami alert. A one metre-high tsunami hit northeast Japan after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was devastated in last year\'s quake-tsunami disaster.$

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A Sri Lankan cyclist rides past what remains of a tsunami-devastated home in the village of Peraliya in southern Sri Lanka on December 26, 2012, on the eighth anniversary of the Asian tsunami. Some 31,000 people on the island died during the 2004 Asian tsunami and one million were initially left homeless.

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A station attendant (C) explains the train service situation for the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) which connects Tokyo and northern Japan at Tokyo Station on December 7, 2012 following a 7.3 earthquake and tsunami alert. A one metre-high tsunami hit northeast Japan after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was devastated in last year's quake-tsunami disaster.

A station attendant (C) uses a loudspeaker to explain the train service situations for the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) which connects Tokyo and northern Japan at Tokyo Station on December 7, 2012 following a 7.3 earthquake and tsunami alert. A one metre-high tsunami hit northeast Japan after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was devastated in last year's quake-tsunami disaster.

FILE - In this June 6, 2012, file photo, a man looks at the tsunami dock that washed ashore on Agate Beach in Newport, Ore. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department says the work to remove a tsunami dock from Agate Beach could begin as soon at July 30. The 66-foot dock will be dismantled and hauled away from the beach north of Newport under an $84,000 contract with Ballard Diving and Salvage of Vancouver, Wash. The dock washed ashore June 5 and officials confirmed it had been swept away from Japan in the March 2011 tsunami.

In this Aug. 29, 2012 photo, Mary Johnson, the general manager at Washed Ashore, shows a piece of foam-like material that may be insulation and tsunami debris in Bandon, Ore. In early June, a big dock splashed ashore in Oregon, confirming everyone's suspicion: Tsunami debris had arrived. Now, officials say, the worst is yet to come. Winter storms always drive piles of ocean trash onto Oregon's beaches. This year, they will carry debris from the 2010 Japanese tsunami.

A station attendant (L) uses a loudspeaker to explain the train service situations for the Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) which connects Tokyo and northern Japan at Tokyo Station on December 7, 2012 following a 7.3 earthquake and tsunami alert. A one metre-high tsunami hit northeast Japan after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was devastated in last year's quake-tsunami disaster.

A Sri Lankan cyclist rides past what remains of a tsunami-devastated home in the village of Peraliya in southern Sri Lanka on December 26, 2012, on the eighth anniversary of the Asian tsunami. Some 31,000 people on the island died during the 2004 Asian tsunami and one million were initially left homeless.

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