Meter High Wave News Today

Wife. >> so indonesian authorities say that this was one and a half meter high wave that rushed in to distances of about 500 meters inland, leaving behind death and destruction. the cause of it, they say, was not an earthquake as we saw as recently as last september with another earthquake that created a tsunami that killed some 2,000 people in another part of indonesia. this, they say, was caused by a volcano on a volcanic island called anak krakatoa in the sunda strait. now, some of our viewer...

Kathy was saying she lives in this area and she doesnt recall something like this happening. >> right. natalie, george, we need some sort of displacement of water to take place. thats how a tsunami is formed. but its triggered by an earthquake, thats typically what we hear the trigger mechanism to be, maybe a landslide or perhaps even the shifts of tectonic plates underneath the weather, but this particular instance appears to be volcanic activity. and we have video of that volcano actually erup...