Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A tsunami earthquake usually starts when a large earthquake occurs beneath the ocean, especially in subduction zones where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another.
In these zones, immense stress builds up as an oceanic plate pushes against and slowly slides underneath a continental plate.
When this stress becomes too great, the edge of the overriding plate snaps and moves suddenly, often causing vertical displacement of the seafloor—either lifting it up or pushing it down.
This sudden movement displaces a massive column of seawater, creating either a bulge or a dip on the ocean’s surface.
Gravity then pulls the water back to its normal state, which triggers powerful tsunami waves that travel rapidly away from the epicenter across the ocean.
In the deep sea, these tsunami waves might be barely noticeable, appearing as small swells.
But as they approach shallow coastal waters, they slow down and increase dramatically in height, sometimes rising into walls of water that flood coastal areas.
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A tsunami earthquake usually starts when a large earthquake occurs beneath the ocean, especially in subduction zones where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another.
In these zones, immense stress builds up as an oceanic plate pushes against and slowly slides underneath a continental plate.
When this stress becomes too great, the edge of the overriding plate snaps and moves suddenly, often causing vertical displacement of the seafloor—either lifting it up or pushing it down.
This sudden movement displaces a massive column of seawater, creating either a bulge or a dip on the ocean’s surface.
Gravity then pulls the water back to its normal state, which triggers powerful tsunami waves that travel rapidly away from the epicenter across the ocean.
In the deep sea, these tsunami waves might be barely noticeable, appearing as small swells.
But as they approach shallow coastal waters, they slow down and increase dramatically in height, sometimes rising into walls of water that flood coastal areas.
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As a small channel, we encourage you to share our videos.
However, please be advised that any unofficial translations or editing of our work in any medium will be considered a breach of our intellectual property rights.
We apologize for the legal language, which arises from our experiences dealing with a lot of duplicated content.
This has been a result of big channels duplicating our Videos, ripping our original hard work, which we have created from scratch, from modeling to rigging to animation and rendering.
As a result, we've had to involve lawyers.
