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Waves don't cancel out, they pass through each other.
by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Waves don't cancel out, they pass through each other.
- hutzlibu 3y agoOrdinary waves travelling through the ocean, mostly yes. But when 2 Tsunamis crash into each other, you can bet, that there is lots of turbulence and energy lost and they wont have the same height afterwards.
- OscarCunningham 3y agoI think you're imagining two towering waves crashing into each other. But in fact tsunamis only pile up like that when they enter shallow water. In the open ocean a tsunami is a wide area (~100km) of slightly raised (~1m) water. If two overlapped it would just be raised twice as high, which wouldn't cause much turbulence.
- hutzlibu 3y agoOk, yes I do, but I think mega Tsunamies do pile up a bit more? And the scenario in my head was many impacts in a close area - and the resulting waves then interacting with each other with turbulence.