Imagine that you are enjoying a sunny day, very warm. You are with your whole family in the beach more exotic you have been before. Suddenly; you begin to feel that something is not right. Far away, you glance and realize that a wave is coming to you; but this wave is not a common wave. It raises just a few feet and height and within seconds you watch it is closer and closer to you ... Noise is so strong that barely you can hear what others say near to you ... You wonder what is happening, and certainly you know you are facing a natural phenomenon ...
When one of the earth movements (quake) takes place in the middle of the sea is called: Tidal Wave; It is a kind of a quake but in the ocean platform, as the geological faults breaks or displaces in the same way giving origin to this natural phenomenon.
Regularly, people who live near beaches, can feel a quiet quake before, but then; just a few minutes can watch how the sea goes away from the beachside and in seconds a big wave risen some height meters comes back to beach destroying everything in its step.
Watching the Haiti's images during these last days ago, we have been witnesses of how powerful can be a phenomenon of this nature. We must be prepared if we live in a risk area where can exist geological faults, even though this areas can be mountains or hills, beaches or near by them, Because we do not know When an Earthquake can be happen and surprise to us.
Researchers have been studying this natural phenomenon since centuries, but they claim know just a bit little about quakes or earthquakes and when they are going to happen. They do everything to warn people of events like these but the efforts get fall down yet. Our planet is a great complex ecosystem which everyday offers whole a world of amazing and wonderful things to discover while others keep much hidden.
Did you know that: We are and live in a risk zone? Oh yes!! Coro city is localized above "San Andres fault" and also it is a city near by a beach.
Another way to call this kind of natural phenomenon is: Tsunami.... This picture was taken on Sumatra's Tsunami on December 26th 2006.
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