Answer:
The First Jolt Of An Earthquake.
Step-by-step explanation:
Messina, Italy was hit was a huge earthquake which had a magnitude of at least 7.5 on the modernized Richter Scale. The devastating part is that all of the buildings that were close to the coast were bombarded with fourty-foot waves. So to put it simply, the tsunami was caused by a sea displacement which was obviously caused by the earthquake that was occurring.
vocab:
Richter scale: a scale to measure the magnitude of a earthquake, as in the one that hit Messina italy: 7.5.
earthquake: a ccollision within the earths plates
tsunami: large waves that are typically caused by earthquakes or underwater volcanic eruptions
cya.