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Imagine looking down from ORBIT… 🌍 A single tsunami so huge it swallows entire countries. A wall of water stretching thousands of kilometres… racing across oceans. 🌊 Sounds terrifying… but science tells a calmer story. Tsunamis form when a massive volume of water is suddenly displaced — usually by earthquakes along tectonic plates. But even the largest earthquakes on Earth can only move limited sections of the seafloor. Water spreads outward in waves, losing energy the further it travels. From space, a tsunami would look more like a ripple racing across the ocean, not a towering wall crossing continents. Even the biggest recorded waves rarely exceed a few metres in the open ocean. The dramatic heights we sometimes see happen near coastlines, when shallow water compresses the wave energy. So the idea of a planet-wide mega tsunami covering whole countries at once? The physics of oceans, gravity, and energy simply won’t allow it. Nature is powerful… but it also follows rules. �...

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