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BookmarkMegatsunami (often hyphenated as mega-tsunami, also known as iminami or "wave of purification") is an informal term used by popular media and popular science to describe a very large tsunami-like wave significantly beyond the size reached by tsunamis (typically around 10 meters)..
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