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I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami, and I was standing on the beaches and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes, a 30-foot wave could rise up and desecrate a people, a population and lives.
When you have a tsunami, an earthquake or a typhoon, you see teams of rescuers coming from all over the world, searching for survivors for weeks.
And we are nowhere near ready or prepared for this silver tsunami.
But what really saved them was likely the same phenomenon that has destroyed countless others: a tsunami.
Thus, the tsunami is born, moving at over 500 miles per hour.
When it's far from shore, a tsunami can be barely detectable since it moves through the entire depth of the water.
The word tsunami, Japanese for "harbor wave," comes from the fact that it only seems to appear near the coast.
If the trough of a tsunami reaches shore first, the water will withdraw farther than normal before the wave hits, which can be misleadingly dangerous.
A tsunami will not only drown people near the coast, but level buildings and trees for a mile inland or more, especially in low-lying areas.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, killing over 200,000 people throughout South Asia.
In 2011, a tsunami surpassed the flood wall protecting Japan's Fukushima Power Plant, causing a nuclear disaster in addition to claiming over 18,000 lives.
And if I could show you this map animated over time, you would see that Tokyo has actually become darker, because ever since the tsunami in Japan, Japan has had to rely on a quarter less electricity because it turned the nuclear power stations off.
He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country, but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball after it had floated all the way across the Pacific.
The tech magazines told us a tsunami was coming.
The mangroves are being cut down; the effects of things like the tsunami get worse.
One of the scariest things about the tsunami that I've not seen mentioned is the complete lack of information.
They reported that there was an 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, which triggered the massive tsunami.
Those were two accounts of the Asian tsunami from two Internet blogs that essentially sprang up after it occurred.
I'm now going to show you two video segments from the tsunami that also were shown on blogs.
And so in some ways the tsunami can be seen as a sort of seminal moment, a moment in which the blogosphere came, to a certain degree, of age.
And, you know, if you think about this with the tsunami, what you have is essentially a kind of an army of local journalists, who are producing enormous amounts of material for no reason other than to tell their stories.
So I went to Fukushima, Japan on the sixth anniversary of the nuclear reactor disaster there that followed the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
He knew the story of his hometown shrine, which had flooded in the year 869 after a tsunami.
And because of the Internet, and because of connections to blogs and so forth, within literally hours of the tsunami, we were already raising funds, getting involved, working with people on the ground.
But what we're known probably most for is dealing with disasters and development, and we've been involved in a lot of issues, such as the tsunami and also things like Hurricane Katrina.
Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages?
Well imagine if each month it got thicker and thicker and thicker, right, like, imagine what tsunami period that would be.
You see, it's not as dramatic as the tsunami.
The situation is so desperate in parts of Africa, Asia, even America, that aid groups, just as they did for the tsunami, are uniting as one, acting as one.
I, like most of you, was sitting down, the day after Christmas in 2004, when I was watching the devastating news of the Asian tsunami as it rolled in, playing out on TV.
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