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Teaching unions in England said schools were facing a "tsunami of stress and pressure", and teachers were being "driven out of the classroom at a time when children needed them most".

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After an iceberg crashes into the water, surface waves called calving-induced tsunamis sweep across the fjord and mix the upper water layers.

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Then came the tsunami, an inescapable wall of water that killed tens of thousands.

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“It was the equivalent of the earthquake going off,” he said, “and then, much later, the tsunami arrives.”

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Japan issued a tsunami advisory Sunday after an offshore 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck a northern Pacific region.

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