"Stuart" wrote in message
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A tidal wave is something completely
different to a tsunami, but a lot of people don't seem to realise
this.

For the last time, it is not.

Get hold of a dictionary and look up the meaning.

Maybe its a common use of it, but its not correct, as those of us
with
degrees in geology know. It may have become an alternative name for
those
who don't know better, but the original meaning is quite different.

The geology students in my College did not do enough applied
mathematics to solve the deep water equations

Franz