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Tsunami Are Powerful

"... a tsunami only 30 feet high and traveling at 45 mph is so powerful that it exacts 49 tons of pressure per square yard!" - excerpt from The Ocean Almanac, by Robert Hendrickson, Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1984, pg. 299.

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