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Those who wish to adopt the textbooks are required to send a request to NCERT, upon which soft copies of the books are received. The material is press-ready and may be printed by paying a 5% royalty, and by acknowledging NCERT. [11] The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11]
Amplitude, Wave Height, or Tsunami Height: Refers to the height of a tsunami relative to the normal sea level at the time of the tsunami, which may be tidal High Water, or Low Water. It is different from the crest-to-trough height which is commonly used to measure other type of wave height.
It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. [2] Other estimates of its magnitude have been as high as 8.9 M w and 9.0 M t (based on the size of the tsunami). [1] It had a maximum intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale [3] and triggered a devastating tsunami. A total of 2,385 people died, [3] mainly in Fiji ...
In the Class 7 textbook topic titled “Our Pasts-2”, pages 48 and 49 have been excluded. These pages mentioned “Mughal Emperors: Major campaigns and events.” The deletions also affected Biology and Chemistry textbooks as the theory of evolution and the periodic table were also purged from class 10 NCERT textbooks. [34] [35]
A meteotsunami or meteorological tsunami [1] is a tsunami-like sea wave of meteorological origin. ... (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2006.
In northern Oahu, wave heights reached 7 m (23 ft). [14] Various areas around Big Island recorded tsunami waves with heights ranging 1–9.8 m (3 ft 3 in – 32 ft 2 in), [14] including a reading of 3.9 m (13 ft) at Hilo. [24] In Kahului, Maui, tide gauges recorded waves up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in). [14]
Boat damage from the tsunami, taken one day after the event. The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake (Japanese: 日本海中部地震) occurred on May 26, 1983, at 11:59:57 local time (02:59:57 UTC). It had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 100 km west of the coast of Noshiro in Akita Prefecture ...
She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, [2] to lawyer (Justin) Edward Pieris Deraniyagala and Gemini Deraniyagala. [3] [4] [5]In 1990, she married economist Stephen Lissenburgh (1964-2004), who "made large contributions to British public policy research".