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Geological history of this area, there's been repeated tsunamis generated in the sendai area. there was a large one in 1856. another one in 1933. and now one in 2011. this is a verygeala o-- ver geologically telling, su means harbor and nam means wave. and as the japanese were developing their country they couldn't build on the coastline because of severe storms. so their fishing boats would go up into a harbor, a river, and when they would see these unusual waves in the harbor, they'd call them sue family. and that's -- tsunami. and that's now, however, in the last 100 years, they've develope...

There was a large one in 1856. another one in 1933. and now one in 2011. this is a very geologically active area and generates tsunamis frequently. the word tsunami is a japanese word, a compound word which means harbor and wave. and as the japanese were developing their country they couldn't build on the coastline because of severe storms. so what they did is their fishing boats would go up into a harbor, a river, and when they would see these unusual waves in the harbor, they'd call them tsunami. and that's now, however, in the last 100 years, they've developed more along the coastline than ...