Cultural awareness is the ability and willingness to objectively examine the values, beliefs, traditions and perceptions within our own and other cultures. At the most basic level, it is the ability to walk in someone else's shoes in terms of his or her cultural origins.
The largest historic tsunami happened in 1958 when a landslide fell into a fjord in Lituya Bay in Alaska, he says. That one generated a wave 30 metres high.. That mega-tsunami claimed only five lives because of the remoteness of the area, and is legendary because of the freak survival of a father and son fishing. Their boat was carried up and over land and forest and deposited unharmed in the ocean on the other side. ^ to top.
Because many people mistakenly think a tsunami is a single wave, some return to the beach after the first wave hits, Lopes said. On March 11, 2011, a man in Klamath River, Calif., died after he was swept away by a second wave while taking pictures of the Japan tsunami, Lopes said. Tsunamis race across the deep ocean at jet speed, some 500 mph (800 km/h). Near shore, the killer waves slow to between 10 to 20 mph (16 to 32 km/h) and gain height. If the offshore slope is gentle and gradual, the tsunami will likely come in looking like a rapidly approaching tide.