Calif. It is possible that the trees collected debris while they were bent over, says Costas Synolakis, who studied the tsunami. The reverse is also possible, he says. If the wave was breaking, as eyewitness reports suggest, the motion of the wave might have driven debris below the water surface, where it then snagged on a submerged tree. Because of such uncertainties, researchers prefer to measure tsunamis by mapping how far inland the waves penetrate. In this case, however, the researchers could not safely do this.
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