Soon after, a 45-foot-high tsunami wave inundated the plant and knocked out its backup diesel generators, leaving insufficient emergency power to keep cooling water flowing through the reactor cores.
An estimated 40 cubic miles (167 cubic metres) of rock fell into the ocean in one go, resulting in an 800ft (244m) high tsunami wave that engulfed an island more than 30 miles away (48km).
Subsequently, three ∼ 40 meter high tsunami waves overwhelmed the village of Tjelle and several other local communities.
The level of impact ranges from low, corresponding to limited flood of the sandy beach, to very high when tsunami waves advance inland up to 1.16 km.
Furthermore, the geotechnical properties influencing local site conditions, and thus earthquake ground motion, may influence building damage and stability after stronger earthquakes, and thus building resistivity to waves in case of high energetic tsunami waves.
The tsunami wave arrived during high tide with leading depression wave (Kawata et al., 2005; Tsuji et al., 2006).
The tsunami wave was about thirty meters high, so I kind of knew what to expect," he said.
The North-Eastern part of Sri Lanka had already been affected by civil war when the 2004 Tsunami wave hit the region, leading to high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children.
On Saturday, Tokyo Electric said the tsunami wave that hit the Daiichi plant was as high as 50 feet.
Below is Banda Aceh's new high school: About a mile or so in from the sea, two boats remain aground where the tsunami wave deposited them.
