Tsunami's

A tsunami is a series of waves generated in an ocean or other body of water by a disturbance such as an earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, or meteorite impact. The Japan tsunami and earthquake this year was devastating, the official number of deaths has been recorded at 4,164 and missing is at least 7,843. Injured are up to 2,218. On July 9 1958 Alaska had the biggest tsunami ever recorded, it was 1720 feet tall.