• Question: why do tsunami cause so much destruction?

    Asked by smoshlover to Audra, Fiona, Justin on 22 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Fiona Hatch

      Fiona Hatch answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      A tsunami is a massive wall of water. It is travelling at such a speed that anything is crashes into cannot take all the pressure. So most buildings would be destroyed by it.

      Its very difficult to try build anything to withstand a tsunami just because of how tall they can be (up to 400m high) and the speed; even the strongest wall could be destroyed by that.

    • Photo: Justin Lawley

      Justin Lawley answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      They are infact designing building to withstand tsunami’s. it sounds crazy but they are going to build submarine shaped buildings that will flot and be able to go underwater for a while with up to 80 people in it. This is exactly how science can help the world through inventions and predicitng tsunami’s……

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