Not a tsunami expert, but...
... why is everything on fire after a big wave has hit? That's my only beef with this movie, otherwise I was mightily impressed with both the visual and sound effects.
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Why didn't everyone run to the bomb shelter in the basement in the first place? That bus was the same size as a school bus. It couldn't have held more than 70-80 people. The bomb shelter looked big enough to have crammed them all in and it was less than 30 seconds run from the front door of the hotel. Why make everyone get in the bus, and then try to drive up above 80m elevation when everyone else in town was going to be trying the same thing on a single lane road?
You are correct but only if you follow the movie logic. In reality a 80m (262ft) high wave would have swept away the entire hotel just like those cars. The 2004 tsunami in asia showed the destructive force of a wave only half of that height and it was able to sweep away an entire train.
The fires you saw in the movie were small but after such an event there would be alot of oil and fuel (from cars and home storage) on the surface. One electrical spark could ignite it all
Even entering the water could be lethal if the electricity wasn't cut off. How they got power in the movie was a mystery, those generators would have been swept away or flooded.
The waters also remained high for days so that town would be completely below water that night.
All this makes going below ground level a very bad move.
If anything this movie showed that the Norwegians better begin training their population like the Japanese do because many people just wasted alot of time just standing there.
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