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听力文摘 Tsunamis are powerful waves caused by underwater earthquakes or eruptions that can crash over ten stories tall into a coastline. If you were sailing far from shore, how would you feel about a tremendous tsunami heading your way? Actually, you wouldn’t notice a tsunami at all. In deep water, a tsunami raises the ocean’s surface only about one or two feet—much less than ordinary ocean waves. What’s more, it takes up to an hour for a single tsunami to roll by. How can a wave be so deadly to a coastline, but so tame in the open ocean? The energy of a wave has more to do with how deep the wat