seiche

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Scientists estimate the waves, known as a seiche, were nearly 2 feet high.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

“The earthquake causes what’s called a seismic seiche, and it’s basically a sloshing of the water back and forth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2019

One of them proposed that the wave might have been created by a curious phenomenon known as a seiche.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2019

This video shows a seiche generated in a swimming pool by an earthquake in Nepal in 2015.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Cenéle amus: salanaig buale ⁊ buicc brodnai ⁊ eóin erchoille ⁊ seiche corad. cenela BM buale om.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno