[the invisib1e hand]

Yeah but I dont remember too many tsunamis when i was growing up.

[Cvengr]

Obviously there is a cause when the 2nd one happened so far away and on a different fault system than the first.

Look no further than:

MOTHRA!!!!!

[SuziQ]

Yeah but I dont remember too many tsunamis when i was growing up.

If you're older than 50, then, when you were young, there were only 3 networks , and they only had news broadcasts in the evening. There was little coverage of international events that didn't affect us.

Nowadays, there are those same 3 networks, but several others that accommodate "Breaking News" on a 24/7 basis. They'll flog a story for hours, even if there is no real NEW information to be had.

There have always been tsunamis, we just never heard about them until recently.

[Ditter]

They were called “tidal waves”. I didn’t hear the word “tsunamis” until I saw it on the transom of a yacht and was told it was named after a tidal wave.