Durability for surviving a tsunami?

[Numbersguy]

I had this question for a while. I wonder if it can be answered and this can be calculated

If you ask, I mean just survive the weight of the wave crushing you and the pressure. Not the lack of oxygen.

 

[Totallynotchewbacca]

Just eyeballing it seems to me like 7c or lessbut other than that I don't really know

 

[Numbersguy]

How about something like this?

I have a character who survived a tidal wave .

 

[Antoniofer]

It shouldn't be high, one would die due the weight of the water falling in you or one crashed against an unmovible object plus the water pushing from behind. If it do not crash against anything humans may survive.

 

[Totallynotchewbacca]

Well this should be higher than that since the water is pushing him against the ground it seems

 

[DontTalkDT]

Depends entierly on the tsunami, where you tank it and the characters size.


In reality it is likely not as impressive as one might think.

Near land a tsunami has a speed of 16 - 32 km/h and will slow down the further up it gets. As a human you only take a small amount of a wave, given a humans frontal area of about 0.68 m^2.

Considering all of that you probably don't get past wall level.

 

[Saikou_The_Lewd_King]

It shouldn't be anything more than 9-B or 9-A. You're just taking an incredibly small part of the tsunami itself. Even regular human constructs like houses can survive it given the right circumstances.

 

[Akreious]

It depends on what form of Tsunami you're talking about. The apocalypic Tsunamis that rip skyscrapers out of the ground is going to be more impressive than a "Regular" Tsunami that causes "Regular" flooding.

 

[Numbersguy]

Near land a tsunami has a speed of 16 - 32 km/h and will slow down the further up it gets. As a human you only take a small amount of a wave, given a humans frontal area of about 0.68 m^2.

Considering all of that you probably don't get past wall level.

So, inverse square cube law to calculate it or something?