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प्रश्न
What is Tsunami?
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उत्तर
- The word Tsunami is a Japanese term that means harbour waves.
- It refers to large seismically generated sea waves caused by Earthquakes, submarine explosions and land slides.
- These waves travel at a great speed (more than 500 km per hour) and the length of the waves exceeds 600 km.
- These waves reach to a height of more than 15 m near sea shore and are capable of causing destruction along the coastal area.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The movement of plates that creates stress and tension in the rocks causing them to stretch and cracks result in ______.
______ refers to a bowl-shaped depression found at the top of the volcano.
Statement I: Mountain ranges are formed by the collision of tectonic plates
Statement II: The movement of tectonic plates is due to the thermal energy from the mantle.
What is an Earthquake and how it occurs?
Distinguish between Divergent and convergent boundaries.
On the given outline map of the world, mark the following:
Pacific Ring of fire
Consider the given statement:
Statement I: Volcanoes can also be classified based on the periodicity of eruptions, as Active volcano, Dormant volcano, and Extinct volcano.
Statement II: A lava dome is roughly a circular mound formed due to the slow ejection of viscous lava from a volcano.
Which of the following statements(s) is/are true?
What are the Geomorphic processes?
The sixth deadliest natural disaster due to the Tsunami caused in the year ______.
Distinguish between:
Seismology and Geology.
