tsunami stone
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I mention the tsunami stones, many of which had been ignored in the burst of economic activity in Japan that followed World War II. Commerce grows along dangerous places, on rivers and coastlines. Is it possible, I ask, that there's a value to forgetting?"
- "I have seen the Aneyoshi ‘tsunami stone’ that [Richard] Hamblyn refers to and these are indeed powerful reminders of the devastation caused by earlier events"
- "Transferring this knowledge to the sedimentary record of past tsunami inundations along the same coast and considering other warning signals that have fallen into oblivion, such as tsunami stones and historical documents^(3,15), the underestimation of historic and paleo-tsunamis becomes evident."
- "Even environmentally problematic buildings may serve as warning examples, akin to ancient Japanese “tsunami-stones” that warn future generations about the reach of destructive waves."