| Show destructive tidal wave not due to sun or moon A tidal wave has nothing to do with the tide but Is caused by one ot of two or three things earthquakes storms which way may be distant from where the wave Is felt and high winds A true tidal wave la Is nothing other than the tide says bays an authority in the kansas city star the tidal wave ot of science Is caused by the slight bulging of ocean waters aa on opposite sides of the globe due to the attraction ot of the moon and the sun As the earth rotates on its axis the bulge bulga Is carried around it t and creates the rise and fall of the tide which Is so well known to those who live along seacoasts and which occurs twice a day the tidal wave which does doea the damage to lives and property Is not due to any attraction of sun or moon and according to the expert erpert there Is nothing mysterious about such waves even though they ac caslo nally arrive in calm weather when they occur in times of calm it Is merely because a storm has set up the gigantic wave at some other point the wave continuing to roll until it breasts over land more than persons drowned in the wave which followed the eruption erupt lon in 1883 of the volcano kra katoa in the straits of sunda the wave which followed the eruption probably was the highest ever known it reached a point on certain hillsides hill sides which was feet above the normal level of the oceans surface I 1 |
