# Tsunami Break-Wall, is it possible?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 17, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-break-wall-is-it-possible/285143 "2005-01-17T02:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![dakravel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dakravel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dakravel)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-break-wall-is-it-possible/285143/21 "2005-01-19T08:16:02Z")

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Just giving an answer to the slight hi-jack

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> Yup that’s the one. I’ve always seen it captioned indicating that it represented a certain tsunami.

From Wikipedia:

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> Perhaps his most recognized work is the woodblock “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.” The scene is of a great wave about to devour the men and boats, with the distant Mount Fuji minimized by the size of the wave. It is said to be a snapshot picture of a day of labor; one can see suprised the men on barges, carrying fish. The waves in this work are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tsunami (津波), but they are more accurately called okinami (沖波), great off-shore waves.

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