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Tsunamis in lakes, the Glossary

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume within a body of water, often caused by earthquakes, or similar events.^[1]

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Natural hazards
Tsunami

African Great Lakes

The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu; Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

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Alpine Fault

The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about.

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Askja

Askja is an active volcano situated in a remote part of the central highlands of Iceland.

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Bárðarbunga

Bárðarbunga, is an active stratovolcano located under Vatnajökull in Vatnajökull National Park which is Iceland's most extensive glacier.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Core sample

A core sample is a cylindrical section of (usually) a naturally-occurring substance.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Earthquake swarm

In seismology, an earthquake swarm is a sequence of seismic events occurring in a local area within a relatively short period.

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East African Rift

The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.

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Emergency evacuation

Emergency evacuation is an immediate egress or escape of people away from an area that contains an imminent threat, an ongoing threat or a hazard to lives or property.

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Emergency management

Emergency management (also disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Fault scarp

A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other.

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Fluvioglacial landform

Fluvioglacial landforms or glaciofluvial landforms are those that result from the associated erosion and deposition of sediments caused by glacial meltwater.

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Hazard

A hazard is a potential source of harm.

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Ice calving

Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.

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Ice jam

Ice jams occur when a topographic feature of the river causes floating river ice to accumulate and impede further progress downstream with the river current.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva (Léman, lac Léman, rarely lac de Genève; Lago Lemano; Genfersee; Lai da Genevra) is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.

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Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.

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Lake Wakatipu

Lake Wakatipu (Whakatipu Waimāori) is an inland lake (finger lake) in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Lake Wānaka

Lake Wānaka is New Zealand's fourth-largest lake and the seat of the town of Wānaka in the Otago region.

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Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Limnic eruption

A limnic eruption, also known as a lake overturn, is a very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of asphyxiating wildlife, livestock, and humans.

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List of tsunamis

This article lists notable tsunamis, which are sorted by the date and location that they occurred.

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Mass flow rate

In physics and engineering, mass flow rate is the mass of a substance which passes per unit of time.

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Mass wasting

Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.

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Megatsunami

A megatsunami is a very large wave created by a large, sudden displacement of material into a body of water. Tsunamis in lakes and megatsunami are tsunami and water waves.

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Mount Breakenridge

Mount Breakenridge,, is a mountain in the Lillooet Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of upper Harrison Lake in the angle of mountains formed by that lake and the Big Silver River.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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North Fork Toutle River

The North Fork Toutle River is a tributary of the Toutle River in southwestern Washington in the United States.

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Otago Regional Council

Otago Regional Council (ORC) is the regional council for Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Paleoseismology

Paleoseismology looks at geologic sediments and rocks, for signs of ancient earthquakes.

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Pyroclastic flow

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of but is capable of reaching speeds up to.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the process of thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere.

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Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown (Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.

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Quick clay

Quick clay, also known as Leda clay and Champlain Sea clay in Canada, is any of several distinctively sensitive glaciomarine clays found in Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the United States, and other locations around the world.

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Rwanda

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Seiche

A seiche is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water. Tsunamis in lakes and seiche are Limnology and water waves.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunamis_in_lakes

Also known as Lake tsunami, Tsunami Hazard in Lakes.

Tsunamis in lakes, the Glossary

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Natural hazards

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