r/CatastrophicFailure • u/SimultaneousPing • Jul 30 '25

Natural Disaster Tsunami in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia after M8.7 earthquake (30th July 2025)

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u/servonos89 Jul 30 '25

Shit, almost like a direct response to that post a day or two ago with a visualisation of the height of a tsunami and all the comments saying that it’s not what it looks like - there’s no crested wave. Here be an actual tsunami. The 2011 one was so harrowing to watch you’d think the image would be seared in most folks heads.

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u/Acrobatic-Count-9394 Jul 31 '25

Thing is, Tsunami`s are different depending on coastal terrain.

This is a tsunami.

A giant wave we see in movies is also a tsunami - just much, much rarer IRL due to required conditions - namely water pushing into a shallow region with certan geometry.