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Originally Posted by shakran
a tsunami is a big wave that is caused by something OTHER than tidal forces (the moon's gravity). A tidal wave is a wave caused by tidal forces. Technically, all those waves you surf on are tidal waves.
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That is more or less what I was taught in high school geography. Although I was taught that the swell was tidal and the individual waves that ride the swells are weather formed.