The Meteotsunami fell upon one of the cities Brazil

@Rossijskaja gazeta
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In the south Brazil fell upon the Lagoon municipality coast of a meteotsunami. According to the ministry of civil defense, human victims and large destructions it was succeeded to avoid. Unlike the tsunami caused by seismic activity, a meteotsunami arises when passing storm clouds parallel to the line of the coast and sharp change of atmospheric pressure. On attestations of eyewitnesses, nothing foretold the beginning of natural disaster. "Weather was very good, but inflow suddenly amplified and the water level quickly rose", - the local fisherman Marsio Nacimiento told. The beach of the Lagoon was filled...