The History of Tsunamis

There have been about 25 Tsunamis occuring in the past century, and they are not rare either. Out of these 25, most were reported in the Asian-Pacific region- more commonly known as Japan. The Tsunami in 2004 caused around 350,000 deaths and all lot more injuries. As early as 426B.C. the Greek historian Thucydides inquired in his book "History of the Peloponnesian War" about the causes of Tsunamis and argued that it could be only be explained as a consequence of ocean earthquakes. He was the first in history to correlate quakes and waves in terms of cause and effect. The Roman historianThe Roam historian Ammianus Marcellenus described the typical sequence of a tsunami, including an incipient earthquake, the sudden retreat of the sea and a following gigantic wave, after the 365 A.D. tsunami devastated Alexandria.