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.
World's Largest Recorded Earthquake. World's largest earthquake - tsunami map: The Chilean earthquake produced a powerful tsunami that traveled at a speed of about 200 miles per hour across the Pacific Ocean. The wave killed 61 people in Hawaii, 138 in Japan, and 32 in the Philippines.