Charoen Nitithamyong, a Marine biologist at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University, explains how debris - such as furniture and vehicles - dragged off land by the giant waves caused the damage.

查隆·尼提他姆扬是泰国国立朱拉隆功大学的海洋生物学家，他解释了家具和汽车等物体被巨浪卷入海中之后是如何对海洋生物造成损害的。

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In other locations, live TV coverage showed massive damage from the waves with dozens of cars, boats and even buildings carried along by waters.

在其他地方，电视直播所覆盖的区域显示到洪水造成的巨大破坏，许多汽车，船艇，甚至是建筑物都在随着洪水漂流。

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Earthquakes begin with tremors called P-waves that have short wavelengths and generally do little damage; they may not even be felt by humans.

地震从称为P -波的震动开始，P -波波长短，一般很少损害；人们甚至感觉不到。

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Any future design would also be built to withstand damage caused by disasters such as tidal waves and earthquakes.

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