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Oceanography

Tsunami Wave Speed

v = √(g·h)
Tsunami Wave Speed

A tsunami is a shallow-water wave even in the deep ocean, so its phase speed grows as the square root of depth — over 200 m/s across an abyssal plain, the speed of a jetliner.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).