Chapter 608: Earthquake and Tsunami

Prior to this earthquake, the highest magnitude and intensity earthquake ever recorded was the 1960 earthquake in Chile. There is still no accurate statement of the magnitude of that earthquake, some people say it is 8.9, some say it is 9. The highest rating is 9.5 levels.

The intensity of the earthquake is also 12 degrees. The energy released by that great earthquake was equivalent to more than 1 million times the energy of the two atomic bombs dropped by the Mayflower Federation in Dongying that year! Today, huge earthquakes have occurred in Dongying one after another. The earthquake that preceded the eruption of the Fuji Apple volcano was equivalent to a magnitude 6 earthquake.

The intensity of the earthquake caused by the sinking of the eastern side of the Dongying Islands was even greater than that of the great earthquake in Chile that year! The energy released was at least 30 percent more than that of the great earthquake in Chile that year!

Although an earthquake lasts only a few minutes. However, the subduction of the Pacific plate has not stopped. After this earthquake, aftershocks of various levels also occurred one after another in various parts of Dongying.

It spreads to every inch of the Toei Islands. The damage caused by this huge earthquake and the eruption of 100 volcanoes in Dongying is now incalculable. Although Dongying relied on the resources plundered by the war and the support of the Mayflower Federation, it was now the second and third largest economy in the world.

However, after this catastrophe. The original economic system will definitely fall apart. Seventy percent of the infrastructure that the Dongying people worked so hard to build has been damaged so far. In this foreseeable period of time when volcanic ash is flying in the sky, Dongying's economic operation will inevitably come to a standstill. Effective communication with the international community will also be greatly reduced!

In this disaster, the loss of population and labor force in Dongying was even more incalculable for a while. After this catastrophe. It will be difficult for Dongying to regain its former glory at the top of the world.

However, this catastrophe is far from over. The huge earthquake in Chile that year not only caused landslides and ground cracks, but also caused the largest tsunami of the 20 th century! The tsunami caused by the earthquake that year and the huge waves that set off were traveling rapidly in the Pacific Ocean at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour. Quickly swept across the Pacific Ocean.

Not only did it hit Hawaii in the Mayflower Federation, but it also caused tens of thousands of casualties and 150,000 homeless people in Dongying. Subsequently, the tsunami set off huge waves that also crossed the Indian Ocean, causing considerable losses to the countries along the Indian Ocean. In the end, it even hit Africa!

Because of the existence of this tsunami. What happened as a regional disaster in Chile turned into a global disaster.

The violent earthquake in Dongying not only caused the Dongying mountain to collapse and crack. Moreover, many of the Dongying Islands can barely be regarded as small islands, rather than reefs, and sink directly into the sea. Stay below sea level and never show your head again.

And the various large islands in Dongying, along the coast, have also sunk down a lot. In some places, it even settled more than one meter directly. The sea just flooded up. And Dongying's originally developed subway drainage system, as well as underground drainage pipes, can no longer be supported.

Anything lower than sea level is flooded by the sea.

This kind of loss, if it is in some relatively large coastal countries, should not be too large. After all, many of the lands in human cities and villages were taken from nature. Seawater backflow is just a common thing.

However, for the island nation of Dongying, the loss is huge. Many of these islands are less than a meter above sea level. That's just a few tens of centimeters high. After this settlement. The lower elevations along the coast are completely submerged by the sea.

This is equivalent to peeling off a large circle of the skin of Dongying's land area like peeling an apple!

At this time, not far from Dongying, on that side of the sea, a huge vortex suddenly appeared!

If anyone is here, they should be able to recognize that this is a precursor to a "descending" tsunami. The movement between the two tectonic plates caused by the eruption of the Dongying volcano accelerated slightly, causing not only tectonic earthquakes, but also a sharp decline in the earth's crust in a certain place.

As a result, the sea water first rushes into the space that suddenly sinks, and therefore, above it, a large amount of sea water will appear, and it will accumulate on a large scale in a short period of time. In the turbulent seawater, after encountering resistance on the seabed, it will turn back to the surface of the sea and produce compression waves, forming huge waves up to ten meters, or even tens of meters!

This is how the tsunami that swept across the Pacific and Indian Oceans after the earthquake in Chile was formed!

At this time, the sea water has completely accumulated, and the huge waves tens of meters high have formed in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, and they have swept away towards both sides of the Pacific Ocean!

Generally speaking, the deeper the sea is where a tsunami is formed, the more water is surging due to changes in the seabed, and the faster it moves on the surface after the tsunami is formed. The speed of this huge wave has reached an astonishing thousands of kilometers per hour!

This tsunami was originally caused by geological changes in the Dongying Islands. So, it's very close to Dongying. Therefore, in just a moment, this rapid monstrous wave washed up the coastline of Dongying!

Moreover, these huge waves will increase in cascade as they wash up on the shore. This tsunami rushed from the depths of the ocean to the coast of Dongying, and it went through various layers. There is already a height of more than thirty meters!

The width of this tsunami was hundreds of kilometers, that is, it was a huge wall of water about hundreds of kilometers wide and up to 30 meters high. Such a wall of water is pushed flat, and there is nothing to stop it.

According to scientific research, in a tsunami, when the waves are two meters high, the wooden houses that were hit by the tsunami will be destroyed in an instant. In a tsunami, when the waves are more than 20 meters high, even reinforced concrete buildings can be greatly damaged.

In an instant, the people along the coast of Dongying tasted the taste of water and fire.

In the midst of the great tsunami in Indonesia that year. 300,000 people died in Indonesia! This time, the number of people killed in the large-scale volcanic eruption, earthquake, and tsunami in Dongying is likely to far exceed the number of people killed in the tsunami in Indonesia that year!

And this monstrous wave will also affect countries on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, such as the Mayflower Federation, and Huaxia!