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A huge sea wave caused by submarine earthquake is called
Answer: D
Such a wave is called a tsunami.
A tsunami is a series of very long sea waves set off by a sudden displacement of the sea floor, most often by an earthquake under the sea, and sometimes by volcanic eruptions or landslides. In deep water it may be barely noticeable, but it rises to great heights on reaching shallow coasts, as in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
Folding, faulting and fissures are movements or cracks in the earth's crust, not waves.
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