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Why do we picture a tsunami as a giant, cinematic wave, when the reality is far more deceptive—and far more dangerous? In this episode of No One Is Coming , Lance Still explores the terrifying physics of tsunamis and the hidden history buried right beneath our feet. From the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2011 Tōhoku disaster in Japan , we look at what happens when the sea stops behaving like the sea and becomes a fast-moving, destructive flood. The episode also uncovers how a catastrophe can disappear from living memory while its evidence remains behind—in coastal soil, ghost forests, geological records, and Indigenous oral histories. Scientists can read those traces…