Despite several waves of council mergers instituted nationwide in the modern era, Housatonic Council's current composition is only one town larger than it was when it elevated to a full council in 1923.

Muslims from the region of Epirus, known collectively as Yanyalılar ( Yanyalı in singular, meaning " person from Ioannina ") in Turkish and Τουρκογιαννιώτες Turkoyanyótes in Greek ( Τουρκογιαννιώτης Turkoyanyótis in singular, meaning " Turk from Ioannina "), who had arrived in Turkey in two waves of migration in 1912 and after 1923.

The depth of the trench and its grade to the atoll's slope and shelf shore makes it more difficult for substantial tsunami waves to build before passing the atoll from the east.

Country's mangrove ecosystem which spans over 7, 000 hectares, played a vital role in buffering the force in the waves of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Rapid location of earthquakes makes tsunami warnings possible because seismic waves travel considerably faster than tsunami waves.

Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves.

Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do ; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans ; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.

Tsunami and tides both produce waves of water that move inland, but in the case of tsunami the inland movement of water is much greater and lasts for a longer period, giving the impression of an incredibly high tide.

While everyday wind waves have a wavelength ( from crest to crest ) of about and a height of roughly, a tsunami in the deep ocean has a wavelength of about.

A large tsunami may feature multiple waves arriving over a period of hours, with significant time between the wave crests.

The massive 9. 3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

There is frequent seismic activity, including a magnitude 8. 5 earthquake in 1963 and one of magnitude 8. 3 recorded on November 15, 2006, which resulted in tsunami waves up to reaching the California coast.

A tsunami with waves of up to 10 meters ( 32. 5 feet ) flooded inland areas several kilometers from shore, causing a large number of considerable fires.

The tsunami waves, caused due to an M 9. 0 magnitude earthquake at about 257 km south-southeast of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, on the Indian Ocean floor on 26 December 2004 at 6. 20 a. m. IST, struck the beach, which is about 2028 km southeast from the epicentre, at 8. 40 a. m. IST.

The reported height of the tsunami waves at the beach was 6 m which washed away about 206 persons on the beach, most of whom were morning joggers and children playing cricket on the beach, including a few tourists.

Calculated travel times for the tsunami waves of 1 November 1755

Hilo's position in the bay caused a cumulative bounce of tsunami waves far more destructive to Hilo than to other more exposed areas of Hawaii.

Thucydides correlates, in his description of the 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami, for the first time in the history of natural science, quakes and waves in terms of cause and effect.

* 26 December-The strongest earthquake in 40 years originates from the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra island in Indonesia, measuring 9. 0 on the Richter Scale and creating tsunami tidal waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of South Asia.

Seiches can also be induced by tsunami, a wave train ( series of waves ) generated in a body of water by a pulsating or abrupt disturbance that vertically displaces the water column.

Seiche waves may continue for several days after a tsunami.

Because of the similarity to asteroid generated tsunami waves, full Navier-Stokes modeling, as suggested by Dr. Mader, could further verify this impulsive rockfall mechanism.

Finally, credible physical evidence of either multiple-kilometer-high tsunami waves penetrating deeply into continents and the ecological devastation they would have certainly caused have yet to be reported from any of the thousands of paleoenvironmental records constructed from the study of lakes, bogs, mires, and river valleys all over the world by palynologists.

On August 28 – 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina pushed a massive storm surge into Mobile Bay, measuring high at Bayou La Batre ( Alabama ), with higher waves on top, and high at Mobile, at the far northern end of Mobile Bay.

During the intense storms of the early summer and late monsoon season, southerly winds of more than cause waves to crest as high as in the Bay of Bengal, which brings disastrous flooding to coastal areas.

The winds cause frequent storms, with the waves reaching 6 metres in the Taganrog Bay, 2 – 4 metres near the southern shores, and 1 metre in the Kerch Strait.

The tidal waves are much faster than the regular currents and reach the speeds of 9 km / h in Mezen Bay, 3. 6 km / h in Onega Bay and 1. 3 km / h in the Kandalaksha Gulf.

The town is situated at the back of a north facing bay known as Fishguard Bay ( Welsh: Bae Abergwaun ) which offers protection from waves generated by prevailing westerly winds.

Birch Bay is a headland bay created by the refraction of incoming waves on the headlands that lie on either side of the bay.

Used at such big waves spots as Waimea Bay and Mavericks.

Since its inception in 1984, the tournament has only been held seven times, due to a precondition that there be waves at least 20 feet high at Waimea Bay.

If the landslide or impact occurs in a limited body of water, as happened at the Vajont Dam ( 1963 ) and Lituya Bay ( 1958 ) then the water may be unable to disperse and one or more exceedingly large waves may result.

Mitchells Bay is a great right hand point break that performs well at mid tide, waves can be found at ' Petrol Pumps ' ( named after a now closed small Caltex auto garage located there ), the bay before and occasionally further round when the tides are right.

Lisa Morgan, a USGS researcher, explored this threat in a 2003 report, and in a talk postulated that an earthquake may have displaced more than ( 576, 000, 000 US gallons ) of water in Yellowstone Lake, creating colossal waves that unsealed a capped geothermal system leading into the hydrothermal explosion that formed Mary Bay.

By 1883-84, the Montreal-based CPR syndicate, in collaboration with the Hudson's Bay Company, clearly preferred the low-lying lands along the lower Kaministiquia River to the exposed shores of Port Arthur, which required an expensive breakwater if shipping and port facilities were to be protected from the waves.

When the waves reach the narrow and shallow Neva Bay, they become much higher — ultimately flooding the Neva embankments.

The wave runup at the head of Lituya Bay where the landslide occurred, and the subsequent large waves along the main body of the bay ( measuring between 200 to 30 feet high ) were caused primarily by an enormous subaerial rockfall into Gilbert Inlet at the head of Lituya Bay, triggered by dynamic earthquake ground motions.

But there are legends of a once fertile plain, the Cantre ' r Gwaelod, now lost beneath the waves of Cardigan Bay.

Yet Clark's classmates from Half Moon Bay High School often speak of cutting class on big surf days to sit on the bluff and watch Clark ride the giant waves alone.

Huge waves are common near the 100-fathom line in the Bay of Biscay.

The beautiful Paracas Bay protected by Paracas Peninsula gives these shallow, warmer waters break from ocean waves permitting life to flourish, particularly near its south western edge encompassed within Paracas National Reserve.

There were three waves: the first one flooded the Lohdalum Bay, the second destroyed all of the wooden buildings and the third and largest ruined stone buildings as if they were made of sand.

While passing through the Bay of Campeche and the southern Gulf of Mexico, Diana produced waves up to 12 ft ( 3. 6 m ) in height.

Shallow Bay on the island's west side is protected from all but westerly winds and waves.