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.
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is the deadliest tsunami in recorded history, claiming nearly 230,000 lives. It has altered the way tsunami research is conducted today. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is the deadliest tsunami in recorded history, claiming nearly 230,000 lives.