Coastal areas in the submarine or the strong earthquake, can cause huge waves, called tsunami.

在海底或滨海地区发生的强烈地震，能引起巨大的波浪，称为海啸。

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What might be called "acute" natural disasters, like Haiti's earthquake or the tsunami of 2004, do their worst violence within hours. They are classed by the number of those they leave dead.

那些可能被称之为急剧性的自然灾害，诸如海地地震或2004年的海啸，则在灾害发生几个小时内达到破坏最高值，人们根据死亡人数对它们进行灾害等级划分。

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Advertising Age called in a "crisis expert" to assess the situation. "The combination of free food and Oprah is a tsunami, " said Robbie Vorhaus.

广告时代的“危机公关专家” Robbie Vorhaus对此作了点评称：“显然肯德基没有意识到，免费食品加上奥普拉效应带来的会是一场营销海啸。”

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The new system is called the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, or GITEWS.

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But she said it is time to go beyond disaster relief to long-term development to counter a so-called "youth tsunami" of an estimated one million Haitian young people who will enter the job market during the next five years.

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That is to interview victims of what's being called Zimbabwe's Tsunami.

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He noted that ethnic Chinese voters had turned to the opposition, which has pledged to reform the government's affirmative action policies that benefit ethnic Malays, in what he called "a Chinese tsunami".

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On Monday, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire called for federal help to remove tsunami debris.

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