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Series of waves that propagate at high speeds, travel great distances, which occurs when a body of water such as an ocean gets rapidly displaced is termed as ..........
Answer: B
Such a series of waves is a tsunami.
A tsunami is generated when a large volume of ocean water is suddenly displaced, most often by an undersea earthquake, but also by submarine landslides or volcanic eruptions. The waves travel across oceans at several hundred kilometres per hour with long wavelengths, and grow in height as they reach shallow coastal water, as in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.
Storms and hurricanes are atmospheric systems that create wind-driven waves and surges, and a flood is an overflow of water onto land; none is a wave train caused by displacement of the water body itself.
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