Tsunami Gallery

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from the series Thirty-six Views of

2967802 The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), c.1830-33 (colour woodblock print)
by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 25.4x37.6 cm; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA; Clarence Buckingham Collection; Japanese, out of copyright

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The Great Wave of Kanagawa, from the series 36 Views of Mt

XIR253109 The Great Wave of Kanagawa, from the series 36 Views of Mt. Fuji ('Fugaku sanjuokkei') (colour woodblock print) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 24.1x36.2 cm; Musee Claude Monet, Giverny, France; (add.info.: Kanagawa-oki nami-ura. Sous la vague au large de Kanagawa; private collection of Claude Monet;); Japanese, out of copyright

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Titanosaurus watching an approaching tsunami

Death of the dinosaurs. Artwork of the dinosaur Titanosaurus watching an approaching giant sea wave (tsunami) caused by the impact of an asteroid or comet core. This impact may have caused the ex- tinction of the dinosaurs & 70% of all species on Earth about 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous geological period. The object, which was 10-20 kilometres (km) across, struck the Earth at Chicxulub on the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. It created a tsunami which was up to 3 km high which rapidly travelled vast distances - here it is approaching the Central American coast at 800 km per hour. Dust thrown into the atmosphere by the impact caused darkness and global climate changes

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