The deadliest tsunami recorded in documented history was on 26 December 2004, and is known as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. It was caused by an earthquake. The earthquake was said to have a magnitude of 9.3 on the Moment magnitude scale. It was centered in the ocean near the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Over 215,000 people, mainly on the shores of the Indian Ocean, died from this disaster. The giant wave moved very quickly. Thousands of people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Somalia, and other nations, were killed or injured by it.
Yet, the most "expensive" tsunami ever was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. It is said to have cost the Japanese government around $150 billion, which is equivalent to about 12 trillion yen. It went a huge distance in inland, and is also the 4th largest tsunami in history.
There is another type of tsunami known as a megatsunami, which is mainly due to external impact on the ocean, like an asteroid or meteor crash, a landslide, a rockslide etc.
Tsunamis are very strong and can go many kilometers inland. Around 5 to 10 minutes before a tsunami hits, the sea seems to go back by an unusual distance. This is a warning that a tsunami can occur.
The best way to evacuate is to climb to an elevated area. If a person notices strange or unusual behavior in animals, he/she can also take that as a warning and go inland. However, if it still looks like the wave can absorb the person, the most suitable alternative will be to hold on to something sturdy, like a tree, so he/she does not totally get carried away and not injured
The Wall
The Wall is the eleventh album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
Al Snow
Allen Ray Sarven (born July 18, 1963 in Lima, Ohio) is an American professional wrestler, actor and trainer who is best known for wrestling with WWF/E and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). Snow is currently working as a road agent for the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, and also as a trainer for TNA's official developmental promotion of Ohio Valley Wrestling. He is also an actor, his upcoming projects are the horror films "Alice D" and "Lake Eerie", starring Lance Henriksen.
Snow has won many belts with different wrestling promotions:
Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio in the Cuyahoga County. The current mayor of Parma is Dean DePiero. The population is 80,009 from the 2006 census but the city's peak population was in 1970 when the population was 100,216.
Parma was named after Parma, New York and the city was largely agricultural in the 19th century. Parma grew quickly after World War II when the young families began moving from Cleveland to the suburbs and during the Cold War Parma kept Nike missiles in underground silos.
WWE wrestler The Miz was born in Parma.
Official city website
American Gothic
American Gothic is a painting made by Grant Wood. It was painted in the early 20th century. The painting is a father and daughter (not his wife as many people think) standing beside each other with the father holding a pitchfork in his hand standing in front of a house. The painting was painted on a beaverboard with oil and is currently on display in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Keith Urban (1991 album)
Keith Urban is the first studio album by Austalian country singer Keith Urban. It was released in 1991. The producer of the album was Peter Blyton and Keith Urban.
Keith Urban (album)
Keith Urban is the second studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on October 19, 1999. The producer of the album was Matt Rollings and Keith Urban. The song "But for the Grace of God" reached #1 on the Billboard while "Where the Blacktop Ends" reached #3, "Your Everything" reached #4 and "It's a Love Thing" reached #18.
Golden Road (album)
Golden Road is the third studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on October 8, 2002. The producers of the album were Dan Huff and Keith Urban. The album stayed on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart for 108 weeks peaking at #2 and peaked #11 on the Billboard 200. The album reached double Platinum in Canada selling 200,000 units.
Be Here
Be Here is the forth studio album by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on September 21, 2004 in the United States and November 30, 2004 in Australia. The producer of the album was Dan Huff and Keith Urban. The songs "Days Go By", "Making Memories of Us" and "Better Life" all reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart "You're My Better Half" and "Tonight I Wanna Cry" peaked at #2 and "Live to Love Another Day" peaked at #48 and the album peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard 200. The album is certified triple Platinum by the RIAA and is Urban's best selling record selling 3,639,000 units in the United States.
Suzuka Circuit
Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka Circuit for short, is a motorsport race track in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Mobilityland Corporation, the subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..
Designed as a Honda test track in 1962 by John Hugenholtz, Suzuka is one of few circuits in the world to have a figure 8 layout. The track doesn't actually intersect with itself. The back straight passes over the front section by means of a bridge.
The circuit can be used in three configurations. The full circuit, the "Suzuka East" and "Suzuka West" configuration. The "East" course is made of the pit straight to the first half of the Dunlop curve (turn 7). It then leads back to the pit straight via a tight right hand turn. The "West" course is made up of the other part of the full circuit, with the pit stop at the straight before the 130R corner.
Suzuka is one of the oldest remaining tracks of the Formula One World Championship. It has a long history of races as host of the Japanese Grand Prix. Suzuka was dropped from the Formula One calendar for the and seasons in favor of the Toyota-owned Fuji Speedway. Fuji had just been remodeled and the circuit redesigned by Hermann Tilke. Suzuka and Fuji were to alternate hosting the Japanese Grand Prix starting in . In July 2009, Fuji announced that it would no longer be part of the F1 calendar. Suzuka signed a deal to host the Japanese Grand Prix through .
The circuit closed for a year to make renovations. They needed to make the track comply with Formula One requirements for 2009. The last major event held on 18 November 2007. The track held a re-opening day on 12 April 2009.
Suzuka also hosts other motorsport events including the Suzuka 1000 km endurance race. The Suzuka 1000 km is a round of the Super GT series, and is the only race in that series of that length. Suzuka also hosts the Suzuka 8 Hours for motorcycles, which has been run since 1978.
NASCAR organized the NASCAR Thunder 100, a pair of exhibition 100-lap races on the East Circuit. The races were held in 1996 and 1997. The layout which using the pit straight and S-corners, before rejoining the main circuit near the Casio Triangle. The cars were from the Sprint Cup Series (then called Winston Cup) and Camping World West Series (then called Winston West). The field was by invitation for the two races, and the field included several Japanese and Australian drivers. The 1996 event was marred by tragedy when pace car driver Elmo Langley died of a heart attack during practice. During qualifying for the 1997 race, rain caused Goodyear to use rain tyres on the Sprint Cup cars. This was the first time in NASCAR's modern era (which started in 1972) that race cars used rain tyres.
It was announced on 21 June 2010 that Suzuka Circuit would host the Japan round of the 2011 World Touring Car Championship season instead of the Okayama International Circuit.