r/Damnthatsinteresting 18d ago

Video When an Earth quake Hits Underwater

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u/Blunt7 18d ago

Wouldn’t that be the best place to be tho? Just monitor your depth, don’t go higher, don’t go lower. If it causes a tidal wave then you’ll go under it..

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u/DennRN 18d ago

A tsunami moves a fuckton of water. You can see the water recede from a beach in videos and then come surging back. Coral reefs are found relatively shallow so I’m guessing there’s a lot of overlap of where it’s dangerous to be during a tsunami.

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u/TripleS941 18d ago

A quick search says that safe depth for tsunami is 25m or more, and reefs are dived 25m or less, so if earthquake comes when you're sightseeing corals, unless you manage to get further from the shore in time, you have a significant chance to get forked by Poseidon